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Right to tax-free legal services ruling [Canada SC]

May 25, 2007 03:22:00 PM

Attorney General of British Columbia v. Dugald E. Christie, Supreme Court of Canada, May 25, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

April 5, 2007 08:41:00 PM

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that Mexico's now-closed Special Prosecutor's Office failed in its effort to address past human rights abuses stemming from the "Dirty War" of the late 1960s to 1970s [GWU Mexico...

January 12, 2006 10:41:00 AM

An attempt by a special prosecutor to try former Mexican president Luis Echeverria on genocide charges for the massacre of hundreds of students during a 1968 demonstration was rejected by Wednesday by the Mexican Supreme Court [official...

September 23, 2005 11:45:00 AM

Judges, lawyers, and even prisoners are on the move across Texas as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Rita . The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , already bounced from its usual home...

July 26, 2005 07:48:00 PM

A Mexican court Tuesday refused to issue a warrant for the arrest of former Mexican president Luis Echeverria for his alleged involvement in the 1971 "Corpus Christi massacre," leading to the deaths of nearly a dozen student...

June 15, 2005 07:28:00 PM

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, Bristol-Myers Squib has reached a $300 million settlement with the federal government over securities fraud. US Attorney for the district of New Jersey Christopher Christie announced the settlement...

April 15, 2005 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Paul Goda S.J. of Santa Clara University School of Law says that the procedures adopted for the election of a pope are founded on the conviction that there is a higher good to be served beyond the...

February 23, 2005 01:46:00 PM

Eleven sitting and former in northern New Jersey's Monmouth County were arrested and charged Tuesday as part of a federal corruption sting. Ten of the officials were charged with extorting cash bribes and free work from...

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Chin [Arizona]: Exoneration Roundup

November 22, 2004 02:55:00 PM

Jack Chin, University of Arizona College of Law:"Citing a poll indicating that 70% of Texans believe innocent people have been executed, a Texas representative proposed a moratorium on executions pending study of the DNA and capital punishment system; attending the...

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Congress passed Roosevelt's New Deal legislation

On June 16, 1935, Congress passed President Roosevelt's "New Deal" legislation to start a recovery program from Great Depression. Learn more about FDR and the New Deal from the US Library of Congress.

U.K. repeals prohibition on non-conformists at its universities

On June 16, 1871, the United Kingdom passed the University Tests Act, repealing a prohibition on non-conformists at the British Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. The Tests Acts were a series of laws that started in 1673 and eventually required officeholders, university students, civil servants and other persons associated with the government to swear allegiance to the Anglican Church. The Tests Act was repealed by the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, but the university policy lasted until 1871.