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Florida orders new sentences in juvenile cases

March 20, 2015 12:33:33 PM

The Supreme Court of Florida on Thursday ordered re-sentencing hearings for four individuals who were convicted of felonies as juveniles. The court ruled that new sentences must comply with two US Supreme Court ...

November 11, 2013 08:34:47 AM

Enkelena Gjuka, St. John's University School of Law

November 3, 2013 01:55:46 PM

Leslie Esbrook, Yale Law School

November 1, 2013 02:53:19 PM

Laura Crestohl, McGill University Faculty of Law

October 31, 2013 12:04:29 PM

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that juvenile murderers who were subject to mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole will not be resentenced if their cases were final before June 2012. The US...

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A Rope for Rape?

October 21, 2013 10:00:00 AM

Ashish Goel, King's College London

October 16, 2013 01:00:00 PM

Nicole Megale, St. John's University School of Law

October 10, 2013 02:00:00 PM

Stephanie Rainaud, St. John's University School of Law

October 2, 2013 01:10:00 AM

Edwar Estrada, St. John's University School of Law

September 17, 2013 11:30:00 AM

Ralph Carter, St. John's University School of Law

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US President William McKinley dies after shooting

US President William McKinley died on September 14, 1901, eight days after being shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz was executed over McKinley's assassination on October 29, 1901. Read more about William McKinley.

Eugene Debs sentenced for opposing US entry into WWI

On September 14, 1918, socialist and labor activist Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for violating the Espionage Act and opposing the entry of the United States into World War I. Incarcerated in the Atlanta Penitentiary, he was still there when he ran for President as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1920 election, receiving 919,799 votes. He was pardoned by President Warren Harding in December 1921. Learn more about Eugene Debs on the website of the Debs Foundation.

OPEC founded

On September 14 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq. OPEC was created to promote higher crude oil prices for its members through the restriction of global supply. Learn more about the history of OPEC.