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News HRW urges China authorities to stop sexual orientation conversion tactics
HRW urges China authorities to stop sexual orientation conversion tactics
Akira Tomlinson
November 15, 2017 10:15:46 am

LGBT individuals in China are being subjected to abuses in the form of "conversion therapy," according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . According to HRW, public hospitals and private clinics are utilizing so-called...

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News UK law prohibiting assisted dying negatively impacts terminally ill: report
UK law prohibiting assisted dying negatively impacts terminally ill: report
Akira Tomlinson
November 13, 2017 12:25:52 pm

The UK its outsourcing those who want assistance with dying to Switzerland, according to a study released on Monday by the non-profit organization Dignity in Dying, but the price limits those who can afford to take such measures....

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News Uber loses UK appeal finding drivers are entitled to workers’ rights
Uber loses UK appeal finding drivers are entitled to workers’ rights
Akira Tomlinson
November 13, 2017 11:06:24 am

The British Employment Appeal Tribunal on Friday rejected Uber Technologies' appeal verifying the ruling that found Uber drivers should be classified as minimum-wage workers, entitling UK employees to minimum-wage rights, instead of...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments in separation of powers case
Supreme Court hears arguments in separation of powers case
Akira Tomlinson
November 8, 2017 01:19:35 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Patchak v. Zinke . The case centers around whether Section 2(b) of the Gun Lake Act is an unconstitutional violation of Article III of...

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News Former Kenya lawmaker challenges presidential election results
Former Kenya lawmaker challenges presidential election results
Akira Tomlinson
November 7, 2017 10:37:47 am

Former Kenya lawmaker Harun Mwau filed a petition on Monday at the Supreme Court of Kenya challenging last month's presidential election win for President Uhuru Kenyatta claiming the election was not free and fair. On October...

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News Pentagon official stays Marine Corps general’s contempt conviction
Pentagon official stays Marine Corps general’s contempt conviction
Akira Tomlinson
November 6, 2017 11:46:21 am

A Pentagon official on Friday ordered the release of a Marine Corps general, who was sentenced last week to 21-days confinement to his quarters by Guantánamo Bay military commissions judge Air Force Col. Vance Spath. Marine...

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News State AGs seek to expand lawsuit against generic drug companies for price-fixing
State AGs seek to expand lawsuit against generic drug companies for price-fixing
Akira Tomlinson
November 1, 2017 01:01:32 pm

Attorneys General of 45 states and the District of Columbia amended a lawsuit on Tuesday to accuse more generic drug companies of acting in a price-fixing conspiracy. The lawsuit now accuses 18 companies and subsidiaries and two executives...

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News Argentina top prosecutor resigns over corruption scandal
Argentina top prosecutor resigns over corruption scandal
Akira Tomlinson
October 30, 2017 03:16:48 pm

Argentina's top prosecutor Alejandra Gils Carbo resigned on Monday amid accusations that she hindered investigations into the corruption scandal surrounding officials from former-president Cristina Fernandez's administration. Current President Mauricio Macri accused Carbo of misusing her...

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News Federal appeals court grants teen immigrant right to abortion
Federal appeals court grants teen immigrant right to abortion
Akira Tomlinson
October 25, 2017 12:14:51 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday ruled 6-3 that a 17-year-old unidentified, undocumented immigrant has the right to obtain an abortion. A week earlier, the same court through a...

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News Russia vetoes UN Security Council investigation into Syria chemical weapons attacks
Russia vetoes UN Security Council investigation into Syria chemical weapons attacks
Akira Tomlinson
October 25, 2017 10:27:27 am

Russia on Tuesday vetoed the UN Security Council's resolution to extend the UN Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon (OPCW) investigation into the Syria chemical-weapons attack. In February Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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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