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National security legal experts to discuss lessons learned since 9/11 in ABA webinar


The past 20 years of American counterterror and national security efforts have had profound impacts on our nation and the world. A panel of legal experts will discuss which changes in processes, policies, laws and resources worked ­— or didn’t work — in the webinar “Lessons for the Next 20 Years: What We’ve Learned in the Two Decades Since 9/11.”

The online program, sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security, will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 9.

ABA President Reginald M. Turner will deliver opening remarks and Judge James E. Baker, director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law at Syracuse University College of Law, will serve as moderator for the webinar, held in commemoration of the 2001 9/11 attacks and their victims.

Panelists will include: Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, Kissinger Senior Fellow at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; Michael G. Vickers, former undersecretary of defense for intelligence; and Sahar Aziz, professor of law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School.

The webinar is co-sponsored by the ABA  International Law Section; ABA Civil Rights and Social Justice Section; Institute for Security Policy and Law at Syracuse University; Journal of National Security Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law.

To register for the complimentary webinar, visit www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security.

 

Court affirms death sentence for 2 dogs in horse attack


ROGERS CITY, Mich. (AP) — Two dogs blamed for an attack on a horse in the northern Lower Peninsula can be put to death, the Michigan Court of Appeals said.

The horse was attacked in a barn in Presque Isle County in 2019. The injuries were so severe that the owner decided to euthanize the horse.

Two American bulldogs ran off while their owner was raking leaves. Hours later, Charles Kendziorski went to his barn and found the dogs covered in blood near his badly injured horse.

"There was no evidence presented that any other animals had been in the barn with the horse," judges Jane Beckering and Mark Boonstra said in a 2-1 opinion last week. "Given this evidence, a reasonable fact-finder could conclude that defendant's dogs had attacked the horse."

They affirmed a lower court decision to euthanize the dogs.

In dissent, Judge Amy Ronayne Krause said she wasn't entirely convinced. She said the dogs might have fought off a wild animal that had attacked the horse.

If the dogs could enter the barn, "then they were not the only animals capable of doing so," Ronayne Krause said.

Killing the dogs would be an "unprincipled and excessive outcome," she said, noting they could instead be confined to their home.



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