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After many months of doing virtually nothing, Hasbro, maker of the board game Scrabble, finally moved today to shut down a hugely popular, rogue Scrabble website. The giant game company filed suit against the creators of Scrabulous in federal court in New York City Thursday morning, asserting copyright infringement and demanding that the counterfeit game be immediately taken down...
Four and a half years later, Hamdan is still at Guantánamo, but Swift's prediction has proved correct. A Yemeni man in his late 30s, Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, was at the center of perhaps the Supreme Court's most important decision on presidential power ever. He is now the first defendant in America's first war-crimes trial since World War II. Hamdan stands accused of providing material support for terrorism and conspiracy. If convicted, he could face life in prison...
...spring of 2006, Hamdan's lawsuit--Hamdan v. Rumsfeld--reached the Supreme Court, which gave Hamdan and his lawyers a sweeping victory. A majority of Justices found that the President's military tribunals were unlawful. In response, the Administration redoubled its efforts, pressing Congress to authorize the military tribunals, which it did by passing the Military Commissions Act during the waning days of the Republican Congress in the fall of 2006. Hamdan was re-charged under the Military Commissions Act and moved into a new maximum-security facility, permitted only an hour or so of indirect contact with other detainees...
...finally facing his day in court, Hamdan is a shell of a man. According to his lawyers, Hamdan can no longer meaningfully assist in his own criminal defense. He is suicidal, hears voices inside his head and talks to himself. A jury of military officers will decide Hamdan's innocence or guilt. On July 21, the presiding judge threw out statements made by Hamdan after his capture in Afghanistan, saying they were obtained under "highly coercive" circumstances. That suggests that the outcome of Hamdan's trial could influence not just how terrorism suspects are treated in the future but also...
...former chief of Croatia's brutal Jasenovac concentration camp, Dinko Sakic fled to Argentina at the end of World War II. There he resided until his capture in 1998; the following year, a court in Zagreb, Croatia, convicted him for his role in the torture and killing of inmates under his authority. When his guilty verdict was announced, the unremorseful Sakic responded with mock applause. The last known living World War II camp commander until his death on July 20, Sakic...