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News Massachusetts OKs same-sex marriage licenses for New Mexico residents
Massachusetts OKs same-sex marriage licenses for New Mexico residents
Leslie Schulman
July 26, 2007 08:11:00 pm

City and town clerks in Massachusetts may issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples from New Mexico, according to recent instructions from the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records . A July 18 internal notice to municipal employees said that...

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News Zimbabwe judge releases jailed activists after ruling police falsified evidence
Zimbabwe judge releases jailed activists after ruling police falsified evidence
Leslie Schulman
July 26, 2007 07:48:00 pm

A Zimbabwean judge has released 13 opposition activists held by the government because police faked evidence against them, defense lawyers said Thursday. All 13 belong to the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change , and had been held...

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News ECHR rules Russia responsible for Chechen civilian deaths
ECHR rules Russia responsible for Chechen civilian deaths
Michael Sung
July 26, 2007 03:20:00 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Russian authorities were responsible for the shooting death of 11 unarmed civilians in Chechnya and ordered Russia to pay damages and court expenses totaling 163,864...

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News Former Iraq deputy PM threatens hunger strike over lack of access to chosen lawyer
Former Iraq deputy PM threatens hunger strike over lack of access to chosen lawyer
Michael Sung
July 26, 2007 02:58:00 pm

Former Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is threatening to go on a hunger strike, his son Ziad Aziz told AFP Thursday. Ziad says that Aziz and 14 other detainees are threatening...

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News Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenas Rove in US Attorney firings probe
Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenas Rove in US Attorney firings probe
Michael Sung
July 26, 2007 02:06:00 pm

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued subpoenas for White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Deputy Director of Political Affairs J. Scott Jennings Thursday in the ongoing probe of the US Attorney firings scandal...

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News Russia Chechen death compensation ruling [ECHR]
Russia Chechen death compensation ruling [ECHR]
July 26, 2007 01:50:00 pm

Case of Musayev and Others v. Russia, European Court of Human Rights, July 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in...

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News Federal judge strikes down Pennsylvania city illegal immigration laws
Federal judge strikes down Pennsylvania city illegal immigration laws
Michael Sung
July 26, 2007 01:43:00 pm

US District Judge James Munley ruled Thursday that two anti-illegal immigration laws passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania are unconstitutional, issuing a permanent injunction prohibiting the...

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News Pennsylvania city anti-illegal immigration laws ruling [US DC]
Pennsylvania city anti-illegal immigration laws ruling [US DC]
July 26, 2007 01:35:00 pm

Pedro Lozano, et al. v. City of Hazleton, US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, July 26, 2007 [ruling that two anti-immigration laws passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania are unconstitutional because they disrupt the federal scheme...

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News Federal judge rules government liable for $101M in malicious prosecution case
Federal judge rules government liable for $101M in malicious prosecution case
Brett Murphy
July 26, 2007 01:17:00 pm

A federal judge Thursday ordered the federal government to pay Peter Limone, Joseph Salvati , and the families of two other men who died while in jail over $101 million after finding the government liable for...

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Senate Democrats ask for special counsel to probe possible Gonzales perjury
Michael Sung
July 26, 2007 12:46:00 pm

Four Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement Thursday asking Clement to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "may have misled Congress or...

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Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years in UK prison

On March 1, 1950, German-British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a UK court for passing British and American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Read a biography of Fuchs from PBS.

Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law

On March 1, 1875, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law. It declared that all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law. In 1883, in the Civil Rights Cases, the US Supreme Court ruled the 1875 Act unconstitutional and unauthorized by either the 13th or 14th Amendments. Congress passed no more civil rights legislation until 1957.

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