Guantanamo habeas certiorari ruling [US SC] News
Guantanamo habeas certiorari ruling [US SC]

Boumedienne v. Bush, Al Odah v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 2, 2007 [denying petitions for certiorari in two cases brought by Guantanamo detainees seeking habeas corpus reviews of their detentions]. Read the denial per Chief Justice Roberts [PDF], along with a dissent [PDF] per Justice Breyer and with a separate statement [PDF] per Justice Stevens rejecting the appeal on precedural grounds. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court ruled corporations due equal protection rights

On May 10, 1886, the US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company that corporations were "persons" within the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore were due rights of equal protection under state law.

Nelson Mandela became first black president of South Africa

On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black President of South Africa. Before becoming President, Mandela was an anti-Apartheid leader in segregated South Africa. He served twenty-seven years in prison before his release in 1990, after which he was elected president of the country. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Read a biography of Nelson Mandela from the Nobel Foundation.