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NLRB v. Noel Canning Presents a Non-Justiciable Political Question

January 6, 2014 12:29:40 PM

Victor Williams, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law

March 13, 2013 12:10:00 PM

Anthony D'Amato, Northwestern University School of Law

August 13, 2012 10:45:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Gerald Carr, Michigan State Univeristy College of Law Class of 2013, examines the challenges that the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians face over building a casino on land that is not part of their reservation...The...

June 21, 2012 03:25:58 PM

A spokesperson for the Libyan government told reporters this week that the government has begun interrogations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) staff members detained in Libya. The Libyan government maintains that they have evidence some of...

June 13, 2012 01:27:51 PM

Three officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Australian ambassador to Libya were able to visit and assess the condition of the four detained ICC staff members on Tuesday, the Australian Minister of...

February 21, 2012 01:44:37 PM

The Tribunale Ordinario di Roma on Monday ordered nine alleged Somali pirates to be tried in Italy's first international piracy trial on charges of attacking the Montecristo, an Italian cargo vessel, off...

January 23, 2012 02:49:25 PM

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in Reynolds v. United States that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) does not require pre-act offenders to register before the...

November 15, 2011 11:07:20 AM

Six accused Somali pirates went on trial in Paris Tuesday on charges of hijacking, kidnapping and armed robbery in connection with a 2008 attack on a yacht. Then men are accused of capturing the...

December 8, 2010 10:27:06 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled unanimously Monday that a federal law allowing for the indefinite detention of mentally ill sex offenders is constitutional. On remand from the Supreme Court, the...

June 1, 2010 11:49:46 AM

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Carr v. United States that the failure to register provision of the Sex Offender Registration...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.