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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
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December 23, 2017 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Ugandan parliament voted on Wednesday to eliminate the presidential age limit of 75 years. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday...

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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
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December 23, 2017 12:00:03 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. ...

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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 16 December 2017
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December 16, 2017 12:00:06 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on Wednesday called on the US to end impunity for those...

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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 16 December 2017
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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. In the midst of a growing and devastating opioid epidemic, officials in Lorain County, Ohio, filed a lawsuit in the Lorain...

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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 9 December 2017
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December 9, 2017 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The High Court of South Africa ruled Friday that President Jacob Zuma's appointment of a State Prosecutor who would decide whether to reinstate corruption charges...

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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: California's Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its...

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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 2 December 2017
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December 2, 2017 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government's proposed plan to allow further economic development...

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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 2 December 2017
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December 2, 2017 12:00:04 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Qualcomm filed three lawsuits against Apple Thursday, seeking compensation for alleged patent infringement. According to Qualcomm, Apple uses technologies that Qualcomm...

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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 25 November 2017
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November 25, 2017 12:00:06 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes...

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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 25 November 2017
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November 25, 2017 12:00:03 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed House No. Speaking in a cabinet meeting on Monday US President Donald Trump announced that the US is re-designating North Korea as...

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Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia

On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.

First US wartime conscription law took effect

On April 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, the first wartime conscription law passed in the United States went into effect. It included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid military service, a controversial "rich man's" exception that precipitated the July 1863 New York City Draft Riots.

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