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News Microsoft drops suit against US Department of Justice
Microsoft drops suit against US Department of Justice
Ram Eachambadi
October 24, 2017 11:27:56 am

Microsoft announced plans to drop its lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday after the DOJ issued new guidelines in an effort to curb its practice of using secrecy orders to silence companies...

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News Federal appeals court stays undocumented immigrant’s abortion
Federal appeals court stays undocumented immigrant’s abortion
Ram Eachambadi
October 19, 2017 01:48:11 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling permitting a 17-year-old unidentified undocumented immigrant to have an abortion by her own choice. In her declaration...

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News Federal appeals court upholds FCC ruling on multilingual alerts
Federal appeals court upholds FCC ruling on multilingual alerts
Ram Eachambadi
October 19, 2017 01:22:20 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling on Tuesday stating that "it was not unreasonable for the FCC to gather more information from relevant parties...

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News Supreme Court denies review in 2000 USS Cole attack case
Supreme Court denies review in 2000 USS Cole attack case
Ram Eachambadi
October 17, 2017 01:10:15 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a case involving the 2000 Cole attack, leaving intact the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official...

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News States back challenge to transgender military ban
States back challenge to transgender military ban
Ram Eachambadi
October 17, 2017 11:15:23 am

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed an amicus curiae brief Monday in support of a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's directive to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals openly serving in the military. Joining Massachusetts...

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News Pennsylvania AG sues Trump over rollback of birth control mandate
Pennsylvania AG sues Trump over rollback of birth control mandate
Ram Eachambadi
October 12, 2017 01:25:38 pm

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration over the issuance of new rules allowing employers to deny coverage for contraception. The complaint alleges that the rules...

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News Federal appeals court: no Second Amendment right to sell firearms
Federal appeals court: no Second Amendment right to sell firearms
Ram Eachambadi
October 12, 2017 11:24:19 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , sitting en banc, ruled Tuesday that "a textual and historical analysis of the Second Amendment demonstrates that the Constitution does not confer a freestanding...

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News Supreme Court denies review in Facebook computer access case
Supreme Court denies review in Facebook computer access case
Ram Eachambadi
October 10, 2017 01:06:14 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied certiorari in two cases concerning who can give permission to access a computer—an issue crucial to the determination of the meaning of the term "hacking." One of these...

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News Supreme Court denies review in conviction of Bin Laden’s personal assistant
Supreme Court denies review in conviction of Bin Laden’s personal assistant
Ram Eachambadi
October 10, 2017 11:23:58 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, denied certiorari to consider the last remaining conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, a Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee and former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden, who was...

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Spain Constitutional Court blocks Catalonia parliamentary session on independence
Ram Eachambadi
October 5, 2017 12:58:02 pm

Spain's Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the suspension of Catalonia's planned parliamentary session on independence next week warning Catalan parliament speaker Carme Forcadell and other members of his speakers' board that they will be subject to prosecution if...

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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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