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News UN agency praises Kenya court for upholding refugee rights
UN agency praises Kenya court for upholding refugee rights
Elizabeth LaForgia
July 31, 2013 09:14:35 am

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) praised the High Court of Kenya Tuesday for upholding the asylum right of urban refugees and expressed hope the government of Kenya will now resume legal services. Last week the...

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News Lawyers argue prisoner too ill to remain at Guantanamo
Lawyers argue prisoner too ill to remain at Guantanamo
Elizabeth LaForgia
July 9, 2013 10:03:53 am

Defense lawyers for detainee Ibrahim Idris have argued that he is too mentally and physically ill to remain at Guantanamo Bay in a habeas corpus petition filed at the US District Court for...

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News Czech prosecutors seek to investigate former PM
Czech prosecutors seek to investigate former PM
Elizabeth LaForgia
July 9, 2013 09:13:22 am

Czech prosecutors on Monday asked the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of parliament, to strip former prime minister Petr Necas of his immunity so that they may investigate his part in a...

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News Ohio governor signs new abortion restrictions into law
Ohio governor signs new abortion restrictions into law
Elizabeth LaForgia
July 2, 2013 10:00:52 am

Ohio Governor John Kasich signed new abortion restrictions into law Sunday night as part of the state's budget . The provisions will require ultrasounds for anyone seeking an abortion, make it more difficult for family...

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News Bahrain court acquits police officers of torture charges
Bahrain court acquits police officers of torture charges
Elizabeth LaForgia
July 2, 2013 09:24:50 am

A Bahraini high criminal court on Monday acquitted two police officers on trial for the torture of six Shiite doctors during the uprising against the Sunni regime in 2011. The Grand Criminal Court's Third Chamber acquitted the two officers...

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News Berlusconi sentenced to 7 years on underage prostitution charges
Berlusconi sentenced to 7 years on underage prostitution charges
Elizabeth LaForgia
June 25, 2013 09:26:57 am

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted Monday on charges of underage prostitution and abuse of power. The Milan court sentenced Berlusconi to seven years in prison and barred him from public office...

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News Supreme Court narrows scope of Title VII for employment discrimination claims
Supreme Court narrows scope of Title VII for employment discrimination claims
Elizabeth LaForgia
June 24, 2013 03:43:46 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday released two opinions that narrow the scope of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , holding that an employer will only be held vicariously liable for an employee's...

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News Ninth Circuit upholds Arizona law denying bail for undocumented immigrants
Ninth Circuit upholds Arizona law denying bail for undocumented immigrants
Elizabeth LaForgia
June 20, 2013 08:23:02 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court's ruling that dismissed a challenge to Arizona's Proposition 100 , a voter-approved amendment which denies bail to undocumented immigrants...

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News Switzerland will not reopen corruption charges against Pakistan president
Switzerland will not reopen corruption charges against Pakistan president
Elizabeth LaForgia
June 20, 2013 07:41:04 am

The Swiss government cannot reopen the corruption charges against Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari because the statutory limitations period has lapsed, Pakistan Law Minister Zahid Hamid announced Wednesday. Swiss authorities sent their position in February of this...

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News Libya senior judge assassinated outside courthouse
Libya senior judge assassinated outside courthouse
Elizabeth LaForgia
June 18, 2013 09:29:06 am

Senior Libyan Judge Mohammed Naguib was assassinated Sunday by an unidentified gunman outside of the courthouse in Derna. Chairman of the Court of Cassation in Green Mountain province Judge Abdel-Aziz Mustafa al-Trabelsi confirmed that his...

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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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