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Enemy combatants ruling [4th Circuit]

January 8, 2003 06:34:00 pm

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, January 8, 2003 [ruling that the United States government has properly detained an American citizen captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan by declaring him an enemy combatant and...

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Maryland death penalty race-bias report [U. Maryland]

January 8, 2003 06:21:00 pm

An Empirical Analysis of Maryland's Death Sentencing System with Respect to the Influence of Race and Legal Jurisdiction, University of Maryland, Professor Raymond Paternoster and Professor Robert Brame, January 2003 [documenting effects of race on the handling of Maryland death...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Martin Luther King Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize

On October 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Read Dr. King's acceptance speech, delivered in Oslo on December 10 of that year.

Israel and PLO leaders awarded Noble Peace Prize

On October 14, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Yassar Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, shared the Nobel Prize for Peace. The three men were awarded this honor for the 1993 Oslo Accords in which Israel and the PLO agreed to peace and mutual recognition. The Accords also granted the Palestinians general self-government in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Learn more about the 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace and the three men who shared it.