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July 13, 2010 |

Promises, promises: Obama administration fails to punish Sudan

Activists say the backtracking sends a message that the United States is not serious about confronting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, whom an international court charged with genocide on Monday.
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July 14, 2010 |

Venture Provides Support for Rape Victims 'Left Behind' by Rwandan Genocide

Two women who have always known safety and material comfort - attorney Lauren J. Wachtler and filmmaker Francine A. LeFrak - are helping women halfway around the world forge new lives after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, during which they were raped and their husbands hacked to death by machete-wielding militiamen.
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August 06, 2008 |

Court Denies Humane Society's Standing in Foie Gras Fight

Citing standing issues, a New York appeals court has dismissed the bulk of the U.S. Humane Society's challenge to a state grant to Hudson Valley Foie Gras, a frequent legal target for animal rights' groups as the nation's largest producer of foie gras. The challenge is only one battle in a larger legal front, which includes a suit under the federal Clean Water Act and a state case that contends that foie gras is an adulterated and diseased food that should be removed from the marketplace.
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July 29, 2003 |

11th Circuit has enough problems without William Pryor

Evan P. SchultzWilliam H. Pryor Jr. must have known he was in for some trouble when the president nominated him to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. After all, this is a man who dismissed the Supreme Court as "nine octogenarian lawyers" and, in a brief to those same senior citizens, compared gay sex to "necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia.
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January 17, 2006 |

From Bombastic to Just Plain Silly, A Look Back at the Alito Hearings

There are 18 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and, at times, they can be some of the most ornery, bombastic and self-important members in the entire Congress.
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August 28, 2002 |

No Libel Found Despite Hundreds of Disparaging E-Mails

Despite proof that a Visa vice president had written more than 400 Web site postings criticizing an Internet credit card clearing center, Visa's lawyers convinced a jury that their client had not defamed the startup company. The case centered around Visa executive Paul Guthrie's efforts to undermine Dallas-based ZixIt Corp.'s new online credit processing product.
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July 24, 2003 |

Split Vote Takes Pryor Nomination to Senate

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December 15, 2008 |

Companies overlook terrorism, invest in India

Just because Unilever NV Chief Executive Officer Patrick Cescau and his designated successor Paul Polman barely escaped the terrorist massacre of 164 people in Mumbai, doesn't mean the world's second-largest consumer-products company has any intention of avoiding India's financial capital."It was just a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Unilever spokesman Gerbert van Genderen Stort in Rotterdam.
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April 12, 2004 |

Don't release killers

It is ten years this past week since the conflict and genocide began in Rwanda. One would have expected that in the intervening decade, those responsible for one of the worst human rights tragedies in modern times would all have been brought to justice. A few weeks ago, Rwanda's prosecutor general announced that thousands of Rwandans accused of taking part in the 1994 killings would be released from prison if they admitted their guilt and asked for forgiveness. This is an inexcusable outcome.
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September 27, 2007 |

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