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News Supreme Court rules filing clearly expired debts in bankruptcy court not punishable
Supreme Court rules filing clearly expired debts in bankruptcy court not punishable
Autumn Callan
May 15, 2017 04:29:07 pm

The Supreme Court of the United States held on Monday that a creditor may seek repayment of a debt even after the statute of limitations period has expired without facing sanctions. The court, in a 5-3...

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News Supreme Court rules veteran benefit rules not subject to state divorce judgements
Supreme Court rules veteran benefit rules not subject to state divorce judgements
Autumn Callan
May 15, 2017 02:28:35 pm

The Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion on Monday for Howell v. Howell ruling that a veteran does not need to pay a divorced spouse for retirement benefits that have been...

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News Supreme Court rules power of attorney need not expressly allow arbitration
Supreme Court rules power of attorney need not expressly allow arbitration
Autumn Callan
May 15, 2017 12:03:26 pm

The US Supreme Court issued an opinion for Kindred Nursing Centers Limited Partnership v. Clark on Monday holding that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts a Kentucky state law that requires a power-of-attorney agreements...

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News Trump creates commission to investigate voter fraud
Trump creates commission to investigate voter fraud
Autumn Callan
May 11, 2017 05:31:45 pm

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday launching a commission to investigate allegations of voter fraud and suppression. Vice President Mike Pence will head the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity along with Kansas Secretary of State Kris...

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News Kosovo government calls for new election following no confidence vote
Kosovo government calls for new election following no confidence vote
Autumn Callan
May 11, 2017 03:17:13 pm

Kosovo's government lost a no confidence on Wednesday. In a 78-34 vote , the Kosovo Assembly adopted a no confidence motion against Prime Minister Isa Mustafa's coalition government. Within hours of the vote,...

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Acting FBI director says agency will continue investigation despite Comey firing
Autumn Callan
May 11, 2017 11:50:15 am

Acting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Andrew McCabe told the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday that the FBI would continue to investigate alleged connections between the Trump administration and Russia despite the recent firing [JURIST...

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India supreme court upholds death penalty in gang rape case
Autumn Callan
May 5, 2017 04:53:06 pm

The Supreme Court of India upheld death sentences on Friday for four men who fatally gang raped a woman in 2012. The group, five men and a juvenile, lured the young woman, a para-medical student, and...

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Reuters: DOJ conducting criminal investigation of Uber for avoiding law enforcement
Autumn Callan
May 5, 2017 04:09:34 pm

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc. for the use of a software tool that helped drivers evade local transport regulators, according to a Thursday report by Reuters....

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News Supreme Court requires separate appeal notice when restitution findings deferred
Supreme Court requires separate appeal notice when restitution findings deferred
Autumn Callan
April 19, 2017 02:26:52 pm

The US Supreme Court held on Wednesday that a defendant wishing to appeal a restitution order must file a separate motion from the notice of appeal for the judgment. The ruling came from Manrique v. United States ....

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Supreme Court rules Colorado Exoneration Act violates due process
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April 19, 2017 01:34:17 pm

The US Supreme Court held in Nelson v. Colorado on Wednesday that Colorado's Exoneration Act is not in accord with the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process. The Act permits...

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President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland.
Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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