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Commentary Hang Together: Why the EU needs to Confront China on Rights
Hang Together: Why the EU needs to Confront China on Rights
Sophie Richardson
April 28, 2014 04:30:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch discusses the EU and human rights issues in China... This year will see a pair of quarter-century anniversaries of key political events in China and Europe: the remembrance in June of...

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Commentary Oklahoma Appellate Courts Wrestle Over Death Penalty Secrecy Statute
Oklahoma Appellate Courts Wrestle Over Death Penalty Secrecy Statute
Adam R. Banner
April 28, 2014 11:10:34 am

Adam R. Banner, Oklahoma Legal Group

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Commentary Conestoga, Hobby Lobby, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Explained
Conestoga, Hobby Lobby, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Explained
Joseph La Rue
April 24, 2014 10:20:04 am

Joseph La Rue, Alliance Defending Freedom

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Commentary City of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp: Damages Without Injury
City of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp: Damages Without Injury
Eric Lasker
April 23, 2014 08:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Lasker of Hollingsworth LLP discusses standing and City of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp.... It is a fundamental tenet of our constitutional system of justice that courts are limited in jurisdiction to cases or controversies...

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Commentary The US Says Landmines are Horrific—So Why Won’t It Ban Them?
The US Says Landmines are Horrific—So Why Won’t It Ban Them?
Mary Wareham
April 19, 2014 07:17:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch discusses the US use of landmines and the possibility of the US joining the Mine Ban Treaty... Since antipersonnel landmines were banned by a majority of nations 15 years ago via...

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Commentary Healthy PA: Pennsylvania's Attempt to Reform Medicaid Contravenes the Goals of the ACA's Medicaid Expansion
Healthy PA: Pennsylvania's Attempt to Reform Medicaid Contravenes the Goals of the ACA's Medicaid Expansion
Leigh Argentieri Coogan
April 19, 2014 09:02:00 am

JURIST Senior Editor Leigh Argentieri Coogan, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Class of 2014, discusses the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Governor Corbett's implementation of Healthy PA ...After the US Supreme Court ruled the Patient Protection and...

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Commentary A New Approach to Marijuana Regulation: In Support of a Potency Tax
A New Approach to Marijuana Regulation: In Support of a Potency Tax
David Ball
April 17, 2014 08:48:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist W. David Ball of Santa Clara School of Law argues that the recent trend of states and cities—most recently in Washington, DC—to pass legislation decriminalizing marijuana is a step in the right direction, but does not go...

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Commentary Saving Private Ryan's Valor: The Stolen Valor Act and Lies About Military Medals
Saving Private Ryan's Valor: The Stolen Valor Act and Lies About Military Medals
David Hommel
April 16, 2014 08:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist David Hommel, St. John's University School of Law, Class of 2014, is the author of the ninth article in a ten-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Hommel discusses false...

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Commentary Brandt v. United States: Will Property Law Doom Rail Trails?
Brandt v. United States: Will Property Law Doom Rail Trails?
Brian T. Hodges
April 16, 2014 01:26:15 pm

Brian T. Hodges, Pacific Legal Foundation

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Commentary Rwanda Marks the 1994 Genocide: Is Never Again Possible?
Rwanda Marks the 1994 Genocide: Is Never Again Possible?
Fred Nkusi
April 16, 2014 02:30:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Fred K. Nkusi of the Independent Institute of Lay Adventists of Kigali and Mount Kenya University in Rwanda argues that the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide is a period of mourning for those lost as well...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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