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News Supreme Court hears EPA, Title IX cases
Supreme Court hears EPA, Title IX cases
Jaclyn Belczyk
December 2, 2008 04:51:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In Entergy Corp. v. EPA , the Court heard arguments on whether Section 316(b) of the...

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News Supreme Court rules harmless error standard applies in jury instructions case
Supreme Court rules harmless error standard applies in jury instructions case
Jaclyn Belczyk
December 2, 2008 10:56:00 am

The US Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam opinion Tuesday in Hedgpeth v. Pulido that a harmless error standard should be applied when evaluating a conviction...

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News Russia court denies rehabilitation of Polish officers killed in Katyn massacre
Russia court denies rehabilitation of Polish officers killed in Katyn massacre
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 26, 2008 08:31:00 am

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court's decision not to legally rehabilitate captured Polish officers executed in 1940 during the Katyn massacre , in which more than 20,000 Polish Army reservists, academics and politicians...

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News Supreme Court takes deportation cases
Supreme Court takes deportation cases
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 25, 2008 04:38:00 pm

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases Tuesday. In United States v. Denedo , the Court will decide whether a military appellate court has jurisdiction to...

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News Sixth Circuit allows clergy sex abuse class action against Vatican to proceed
Sixth Circuit allows clergy sex abuse class action against Vatican to proceed
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 25, 2008 03:55:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court decision denying in part defendant's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging that officials of the Roman Catholic Church...

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News Australia senate passes bills giving equal rights to same-sex couples
Australia senate passes bills giving equal rights to same-sex couples
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 25, 2008 10:02:00 am

The Australian Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow same-sex couples to enjoy most of the same rights as heterosexual couples, but would not give same-sex couples the right to marry. The...

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News CIA withheld information from DOJ in 2001 shootdown of Peru plane: report
CIA withheld information from DOJ in 2001 shootdown of Peru plane: report
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 21, 2008 02:23:00 pm

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have withheld information from the US Department of Justice and other agencies regarding a plane carrying a US missionary family shot down over Peru in 2001, according to excerpts ...

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News US attorney general ‘conversant and alert’ after collapse at speech
US attorney general ‘conversant and alert’ after collapse at speech
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 21, 2008 09:11:00 am

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed Thursday evening during a speech to the Federalist Society . Mukasey was rushed to George Washington University Hospital , where he remained Friday morning [New York...

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News Australia police to lift control order on ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Australia police to lift control order on ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 20, 2008 04:53:00 pm

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced Thursday that they will lift restrictions on former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . The announcement came after Hicks issued a plea...

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News ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Darfur rebel leaders
ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Darfur rebel leaders
Jaclyn Belczyk
November 20, 2008 04:32:00 pm

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday formally asked ICC judges to issue arrest warrants for the leaders of rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur region [JURIST news...

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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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