The Orleans Parrish Criminal District Court is scheduled to hold its first jury trial since Hurricane Katrina.

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This first trial was a civil case, but the criminal cases will walk this same path, and that's why today's ruling was seen as so important.

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John Bellinger, the State Department's legal advisor, says officials are already working out the modalities of moving the Taylor trial to the International Criminal Court, the world's first anti-war crimes tribunal and a court the U.S. opposes.

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