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News Supreme Court clarifies criteria for using state convictions to impose enhanced federal sentences
Supreme Court clarifies criteria for using state convictions to impose enhanced federal sentences
Ram Eachambadi
June 24, 2016 09:27:18 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Thursday in Mathis v. United States that a prior crime can be used for imposing enhanced federal sentences in a new conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act...

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News Supreme Court limits scope of blood alcohol tests for drunk drivers
Supreme Court limits scope of blood alcohol tests for drunk drivers
Ram Eachambadi
June 24, 2016 08:11:48 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-1 Thursday in Birchfield v. North Dakota that governments can require suspected drunk drivers to undergo breath tests without first obtaining a warrant, but cannot require them to take...

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News UN rights experts urge India to eliminate barriers to civilian access to foreign funding
UN rights experts urge India to eliminate barriers to civilian access to foreign funding
Ram Eachambadi
June 17, 2016 09:40:21 am

A group of independent UN human rights experts urged India on Thursday to repeal a law increasingly being used to obstruct civilian access to foreign funding. This news comes in the wake of a six-month suspension on the...

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News CIA declassifies files on detention and interrogation program
CIA declassifies files on detention and interrogation program
Ram Eachambadi
June 17, 2016 08:17:20 am

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Tuesday declassified 50 documents related to its detention and Interrogation program pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. This several hundred-page release covers internal CIA...

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News Supreme Court: federal courts have inherent powers to recall jury in civil cases
Supreme Court: federal courts have inherent powers to recall jury in civil cases
Ram Eachambadi
June 10, 2016 08:17:46 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 Thursday in Dietz v. Bouldin that federal district courts have "the inherent power to rescind a jury discharge order and recall a jury for further deliberations" in a...

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News UK prosecutors: no charges against MI6 for sending back Libya dissidents
UK prosecutors: no charges against MI6 for sending back Libya dissidents
Ram Eachambadi
June 10, 2016 07:46:39 am

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated on Thursday that there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against anyone in MI6 for its involvement in the movement and alleged ill treatment of Abdel Hakim Belhadj ,...

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News India court convicts 24 in 2002 Gujarat riots
India court convicts 24 in 2002 Gujarat riots
Ram Eachambadi
June 3, 2016 10:00:59 am

The Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad, India, convicted 24 individuals on Thursday of murder and other charges related to the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat in which hundreds of Muslims were killed. The riots, which...

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News Germany recognizes mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide
Germany recognizes mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide
Ram Eachambadi
June 3, 2016 08:53:01 am

The German Parliament approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the mass killings of ethnic Armenians by Turks during the Ottoman Empire a century ago as genocide, prompting an angry backlash and the immediate recall of...

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News HRW calls for fair adjudication in trial of former Ivory Coast first lady
HRW calls for fair adjudication in trial of former Ivory Coast first lady
Ram Eachambadi
May 30, 2016 05:16:48 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed confidence on Monday that former first lady Simone Gbagbo's upcoming trial in Ivory Coast for crimes against humanity could be a "pivotal moment for justice." HRW also warned that if the...

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News India top court frees Italian Marine involved in killing of fishermen
India top court frees Italian Marine involved in killing of fishermen
Ram Eachambadi
May 27, 2016 09:07:00 am

The Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that Salvatore Girone, the Italian marine under investigation for the killing of two fisherman, is free to go home while India and Italy await the decision of the Permanent Court of...

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On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed legislation allowing women to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Belva Lockwood became the first woman admitted to practice under the new law on March 3, 1879.

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