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VA Supreme Court throws out sovereign immunity lawsuit

November 5, 2004 08:34:00 PM

Citing sovereign immunity, the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by one of 212 women who claimed that drinking contaminated tap water from Chesapeake city caused miscarriages or birth defects. Chesapeake Circuit Court Judge Norman...

November 4, 2004 05:00:00 PM

A man once ranked as the eighth-most prolific spammer in the world by Internet watchdog Spamhaus has been sentenced to nine years in a Virginia prison for sending hundreds of thousands of unwanted e-mail messages. Jeremy Jaynes, the first...

November 4, 2004 10:47:00 AM

Lawyers for convicted DC sniper John Allen Muhammad have told the Virginia Supreme Court that Muhammad cannot be sentenced to death because he did not pull the trigger in the 2002 killings. As reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, Muhammad...

October 1, 2004 01:15:00 PM

Judge M. Langhorne Keith, Fairfax County Circuit Court, Virginia, October 1, 2004 . Read the ruling here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

January 30, 2003 02:32:00 PM

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Malvo, Virginia Circuit Court of Fairfax County, January 30, 2005 . Read the order here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

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Moussaoui Internet access order [US DC]

January 24, 2003 12:22:00 PM

United States v. Moussaoui, United States District Court Eastern District of Virginia, January 24, 2003 [ordering that terrorist suspect Zacarias Moussaoui be given the necessary hardware and software to connect to the discovery information website developed for him by the...

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Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).