Search Results for: 2006-03-07

Second Los Angeles prison riot blamed on racial tensions

February 7, 2006 08:20:00 AM

Rival black and Hispanic gangs took part in another racially motivated brawl late Monday evening at a Los Angeles County jail dorm, in a repeat of a similar brawl last weekend which killed one inmate and injured...

November 15, 2005 06:54:00 AM

The US Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a compromise offered by senators in response to last Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts in order...

August 4, 2005 05:33:00 PM

Leading Thursday's states brief, two New Jersey Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit today in state Superior Court, seeking an injunction to stop plans by acting Governor Richard J. Codey for a $2.1 billion bond refinance deal that...

March 29, 2005 04:11:00 PM

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that regulators have called Warren Buffett to answer questions next month about his involvement in the insurance transaction between General Re Corp....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

Learn more about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.