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News Supreme Court rules in attorney’s fees case
Supreme Court rules in attorney’s fees case
Benjamin Minegar
January 15, 2014 11:14:45 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund that, whether a claim for attorney's fees is based upon a statute, a private contract, or both, the...

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UN body empowered to hear childrens’ rights complaints
Benjamin Minegar
January 15, 2014 10:42:41 am

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday announced that a legal instrument, which grants children access to international human rights protections, will go into effect in April. The Optional...

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News UK officials accused of Iraq war crimes
UK officials accused of Iraq war crimes
Benjamin Minegar
January 13, 2014 10:59:35 am

Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Sunday filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that UK government and military officials engaged in...

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News Saudi Arabia court hands down death sentence for 2004 bombing
Saudi Arabia court hands down death sentence for 2004 bombing
Benjamin Minegar
January 13, 2014 10:39:44 am

A Saudi Arabian court on Sunday sentenced to death a member of an extremist group convicted of producing explosives used in a May 2004 suicide attack on a western company operating in Saudi Arabia's northwestern port city of Yanbu....

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News Apple seeks to disqualify compliance monitor in e-book price-fixing case
Apple seeks to disqualify compliance monitor in e-book price-fixing case
Benjamin Minegar
January 8, 2014 11:05:53 am

Attorneys representing Apple on Wednesday formally sought to disqualify court-appointed "external compliance monitor" Michael Bromwich, who was given the power to review and evaluate the tech company's compliance with an injunction related to an e-book price fixing...

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Germany prosecutors charge former Nazi with murder
Benjamin Minegar
January 8, 2014 10:38:35 am

German prosecutors on Wednesday charged an 88-year old German man, referred to in court documents as "Werner C," with involvement in a 1944 massacre that took place in Oradour-sur-Glane in central France. According to the prosecution, Warner C murdered...

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News Louisiana urged to release prisoner from indefinite solitary confinement
Louisiana urged to release prisoner from indefinite solitary confinement
Benjamin Minegar
January 6, 2014 10:42:42 am

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday demanded that Louisiana state officials immediately release former Black Panther Albert Woodfox , who has been detained in solitary confinement since 1972 after being charged and convicted of fatally...

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Cambodia authorities release activists after labor protests
Benjamin Minegar
January 6, 2014 10:16:28 am

Cambodian police on Monday released five activists arrested earlier in the day for petitioning the French Embassy to release 23 demonstrators held for opposing the government's labor and political framework. The release was reportedly conditioned upon the demonstrators' collective...

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Ukraine demonstrators protest failed EU trade pact
Benjamin Minegar
December 1, 2013 11:19:44 am

Ukrainian demonstrators gathered in the streets of Kiev Saturday to protest President Viktor Yanukovich's decision to abandon the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement , a planned trade pact with the EU. According to media reports the...

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China insurance executive under investigation for graft
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December 1, 2013 10:58:41 am

China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Sunday announced plans to investigate Dai Chunning, deputy general manager of the state-owned China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) . According to media sources the investigation stems from Chunning's alleged...

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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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