The law under which Mr Karadzic has been sued is known as the Alien Tort Claims Act, originally a part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
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R. 4276, the House version of the FY 1999 Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations Act now awaiting House action.
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said they would act on the proposal very quickly.
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The GOP memo is dated September 17, 2010, shortly before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (which we legal privacy geeks lovingly refer to as ECPA).
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The Senate Judiciary Committee discussed the need for a facelift for the Act today with attorneys from law enforcement, the Commerce Department, the tech industry, and civil rights groups.
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At Howard he touted the "Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013, " which he recently introduced with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, the Democratic senator from Vermont.
The act, which continues to provoke controversy, will be reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition.
But during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on one of the proposals (the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act), proponents of the measure disregarded all facts showing why their solution is worse than the problem.
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