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DC Circuit affirm rulings against deceptive tobacco marketing
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 12:21pm MSD by Christian Ehret
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[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [official website] on Friday affirmed [opinion, PDF] a district court ruling [JURIST report] that tobacco manufacturers conducted a scheme to deceive American consumers as to the health effects of their products through a pattern of mail and wire fraud. The US brought the initial action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt -
Rwandan Hutu first to be convicted under Canada war crimes act
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 11:39am MSD by Ingrid Burke
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[JURIST] Rwandan Hutu Desire Munyaneza [Trial Watch profile] was convicted [judgment, DOC] by the Superior Court of Quebec [official website] Friday on seven counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes under Canada's new Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act [text, PDF]. Munyaneza is the first person to have been charged under the act, which Canada ratified in 2000 in order -
South Korea high court upholds right to die
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 11:11am MSD by Christian Ehret
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[JURIST] The South Korean Supreme Court [official website, in Korean] on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling allowing a brain-damaged patient the right to die [JURIST news archive]. The patient, a 76-year old woman on life-support at a Yonsei University medical center [hospital website], is brain-dead [Hankyora report] and unable to survive without the use of a respirator. Chief Justice Lee -
Federal jury sentences ex-US soldier to life in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 9:56am MSD by Christian Ehret
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[JURIST] Former US soldier Steven Green [JURIST news archive] was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl [JURIST news archive] and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. A federal jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky [official website], which convicted [JURIST report] Green earlier this month, was instructed [proposed -
Spain judge reinstates charges against US soldiers for journalist's death in Iraq
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 9:05am MSD by Ingrid Burke
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[JURIST] Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz Gomez [JURIST news archive] reinstated charges [indictment, PDF, in Spanish] Thursday against three US soldiers for their involvement in the death of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso [advocacy website, in Spanish], which occurred when the soldiers opened fire on a Baghdad hotel frequented by Western journalists in 2003, allegedly without -
Bolivia Senate to hold impeachment trial for high court chief justice
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 7:49am MSD by Ingrid Burke
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[JURIST] The Bolivian Senate [official website, in Spanish] announced Thursday that an impeachment trial for Chief Justice Dr. Eddy Walter Fernandez Gutierrez [official profile, in Spanish] of the Bolivian Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish] will be held on June 3. The Chamber of Deputies [official website, in Spanish], Bolivia's lower congressional house, impeached Fernandez and -
Cheney defends Bush-era interrogation policies as lawful and necessary
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 7:06am MSD by Christian Ehret
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[JURIST] Former US vice president Dick Cheney [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday defended national security policies [speech transcript] of the Bush administration. Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) [organization website], Cheney criticized many of the security policies of President Barack Obama [official profile] and described how the 9/11 terrorist attacks affected -
France Internet piracy law faces constitutional challenge
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 5:18am MSD by Christian Ehret
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[JURIST] A French Internet piracy law [text, in French; JURIST news archive] has been challenged on constitutional grounds by the opposition Socialist party [party website, in French] in front of the Constitutional Council [official website, in French]. The bill, introduced by cultural minister Christine Albanel and supported by President Nicholas Sarkozy [official websites, in French], is aimed -
Taiwan ex-president Chen dismisses lawyers to protest prosecution
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 4:26am MSD by Matt Glenn
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[JURIST] Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] dismissed his defense lawyers Thursday and announced he would not call any witnesses in protest of what he sees as a politically motivated prosecution [Taipei Times report]. Chen, who was indicted [JURIST report] in December, faces possible life in prison on charges of embezzlement, receiving bribes, forgery,