Ruling on DOT decision to open US highways to Mexican trucks [9th Circuit] News
Ruling on DOT decision to open US highways to Mexican trucks [9th Circuit]

Public Citizen v. Dept. of Transportation, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 16, 2003 [ruling that the US Department of Transportation decision to open US highways to Mexican trucks under the terms of the NAFTA accord violated the Clean Air Act]. Read the opinion here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Ku Klux Klan trials began in South Carolina

On November 28, 1871, Ku Klux Klan trials began in US District Court in South Carolina as part of a federal effort to halt growing White violence in the former Confederate states.

Read a book review of Lou Faulkner Williams, The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (1996) and learn more about the early history of the Klan.

New Zealand women become the first to vote in a national election

On November 28, 1893, women voted in New Zealand elections, becoming the first to participate in a national election anywhere in the world.

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