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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State Union of Serbia and Montenegro dissolves

On June 3, 2006, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro formerly dissolved with the latter's declaration of independence. After the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2003, Serbia and Montenegro was born as a union of the only nations that had not departed the Yugoslav federation. In 2006, Montenegro became the last nation of the former Yugoslavia to break from Serbia.

Read the Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro.

US Supreme Court ruled first federal child labor law unconstitutional

On June 3, 1918, the US Supreme Court ruled in Hammer v. Dagenhart that the first federal child labor law, the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, was unconstitutional, falling outside the scope of Congressional authority under the Commerce Clause.

Learn more about the campaign to end child labor in the United States.

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