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News DOMA challenger files brief with US Supreme Court
DOMA challenger files brief with US Supreme Court
Daniel Mullen
February 26, 2013 03:38:38 pm

Attorneys for Edith Windsor , the respondent in US v. Windsor , filed a brief with the US Supreme Court on Tuesday arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) ...

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News Dutch court approves extradition of al Qaeda suspect to US
Dutch court approves extradition of al Qaeda suspect to US
Daniel Mullen
February 26, 2013 02:27:39 pm

Judge Gerard van Ham of The Hague District Court on Tuesday rejected a request to block the extradition of suspected al Qaeda terrorist Sabir Khan to the US. Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten ...

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News NCAA sues Pennsylvania governor in federal court over PSU fines
NCAA sues Pennsylvania governor in federal court over PSU fines
Daniel Mullen
February 21, 2013 03:10:53 pm

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) filed a lawsuit in US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday against Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and other state officials. The...

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News Italy court sentences former Fiat advisers
Italy court sentences former Fiat advisers
Daniel Mullen
February 21, 2013 02:20:01 pm

The Turin Court of Appeals in Italy on Thursday sentenced two former advisers to the Italian car company Fiat to one year and four months in prison for misleading the market in 2005 when the...

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News Supreme Court upholds drug sniffing dog search
Supreme Court upholds drug sniffing dog search
Daniel Mullen
February 19, 2013 12:25:10 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Florida v. Harris that an alert from a well-trained narcotics detection dog certified to detect illegal contraband is sufficient to establish probable cause for the search...

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Egypt authorities appeal court order banning YouTube
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February 14, 2013 02:45:23 pm

Egypt's National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) on Thursday appealed a court order banning YouTube because it features the controversial film Innocence of Muslims . The film, which sparked violent protests...

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News UN rights experts urge Venezuela to release incarcerated judge
UN rights experts urge Venezuela to release incarcerated judge
Daniel Mullen
February 14, 2013 01:58:17 pm

A group of UN experts on Thursday urged Venezuela to release Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni from prison. Afiuni has been incarcerated since 2009 after she freed a prisoner that the government of President...

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News France lawmakers approve same-sex marriage bill
France lawmakers approve same-sex marriage bill
Daniel Mullen
February 12, 2013 12:45:28 pm

France's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly , approved a bill on Tuesday which extends marriage and adoption rights to same-sex couples. The bill was approved by a vote of...

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News Rights groups urge Haiti to pursue case against Jean-Claude Duvalier
Rights groups urge Haiti to pursue case against Jean-Claude Duvalier
Daniel Mullen
February 7, 2013 03:29:20 pm

Amnesty International (AI) and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) on Wednesday called upon Haiti to ensure that Jean-Claude Duvalier is brought to justice. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years in...

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UN rights experts concerned over death sentence imposed in Bangladesh
Daniel Mullen
February 7, 2013 02:26:28 pm

Two UN human rights experts on Thursday expressed concern over the death sentence imposed by the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICBT) on Abdul Kalam Azad for crimes during the 1971...

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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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