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Sunday, February 22

Suicide bomb attack linked to ICJ barrier hearing - Israeli ministers
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/22/2004 02:33:09 PM

Two Israeli ministers immediately connected a Sunday suicide bombing which killed 8 people and wounded 59 on a Jerusalem bus to Monday's upcoming hearing at the International Court of Justice on the legality of the Israeli security barrier. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told government colleagues in a briefing that the bomber was likely trying to show that the barrier was ineffective, while Health Minister Yosef Lapid said that the bombing showed opponents that a barrier was necessary, adding that the attack would not have happened if there were a barrier in Jerusalem itself. From Israel, Haaretz has more.

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Milosevic war crimes judge stepping down for health reasons
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/22/2004 01:55:41 PM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia announced Sunday that UK jurist Richard May, the presiding judge at the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, is stepping down for health reasons effective May 31. The announcement comes just days before the prosecution in scheduled to wrap up its case against the former Yugoslav President. CNN provides this profile of Judge May. Read the official resignation statement from the President of the ICTY. Reuters has more.

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California AG balks at Schwarzenegger gay marriage directive
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/22/2004 01:37:55 PM

While saying that his office will defend California's marriage law against San Francisco's gay marriage initiative, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer Saturday balked at Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Friday letter to him (reported yesterday in JURIST's Paper Chase) which specifically directed that he take "immediate steps" to get a judicial resolution of the issue. Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle quotes Lockyer, an elected Democrat, as saying that "The governor can direct the Highway Patrol. He can direct the next 'Terminator 4' movie if he chooses. But he can't direct the attorney general in the way he's attempted to do." Schwarzenegger's letter, he added, was "a statement designed for consumption at the Republican convention." The Chronicle has more.

This day at law - Justice Felix Frankfurter died
Bernard Hibbitts at 2/22/2004 08:11:39 AM

On February 22, 1965, US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter died in Washington, DC. Learn more about Felix Frankfurter from the Oyez Supreme Court multimedia project at Northwestern University.