Israeli targeting of Lebanese civilian infrastructure report [AI] News
Israeli targeting of Lebanese civilian infrastructure report [AI]

Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure, Amnesty International, August 23, 2006 [report accusing Israel of deliberately inflicting unnecessary damage on Lebanese civilian infrastructure during the Middle East conflict, acts which Amnesty says rises to the level of war crimes]. Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants

On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially-restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.

World Press Freedom day

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. On May 3, 1845, Macon B. Allen, the first African American to practice law in the United States, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Learn more about Allen's admission.