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News New Zealand tribunal finds first-ever violation of Bill of Rights Act
New Zealand tribunal finds first-ever violation of Bill of Rights Act
Abigail Salisbury
May 19, 2008 04:35:00 pm

New Zealand's Human Rights Commission announced Monday that the Human Rights Review Tribunal has found the nation's accident compensation system to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights...

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News Russia president signs decree to establish anti-corruption council
Russia president signs decree to establish anti-corruption council
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 19, 2008 04:19:00 pm

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a measure to establish an anti-corruption council to be headed by Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin , Medvedev announced at a Monday press conference . Medvedev said that...

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News US Supreme Court will not hear deportation appeal of accused Nazi prison guard
US Supreme Court will not hear deportation appeal of accused Nazi prison guard
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 19, 2008 03:42:00 pm

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Demjanjuk v. Mukasey , ending the appeals process of a deportation order for accused former Nazi concentration camp guard and Ohio resident John...

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News Prosecutor alleges Israel PM accepted bribes from US businessman
Prosecutor alleges Israel PM accepted bribes from US businessman
Andrew Gilmore
May 19, 2008 02:54:00 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert personally received cash from US businessman Morris Talansky while serving as a minister of industry, trade and labor, a state prosecutor said Monday in a hearing at the Supreme...

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News Iran human rights group condemns government treatment of critics
Iran human rights group condemns government treatment of critics
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 19, 2008 01:55:00 pm

The Iranian government is engaged in systematic human rights abuses, an Iranian human rights group said in an annual report released Sunday. The Defenders of Human Rights Centre, a group founded and headed by 2003 Nobel peace laureate Shirin...

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News Nigeria president vows to resign if high court upholds election challenge
Nigeria president vows to resign if high court upholds election challenge
Andrew Gilmore
May 19, 2008 12:19:00 pm

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua told AFP Sunday that he would resign if the Supreme Court of Nigeria invalidated his victory in the disputed 2007 presidential election . In March, Nigerian opposition leader and presidential...

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News Israel justice minister calls for relaxation of religious marriages rules
Israel justice minister calls for relaxation of religious marriages rules
Andrew Gilmore
May 19, 2008 10:31:00 am

Israel's Chief Rabbinate , the body that authorizes and conducts marriages in the country, should allow marriages between people of different religious faiths, Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann said Sunday. The Chief Rabbinate currently...

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News US Supreme Court rules on repeat offender, child pornography cases
US Supreme Court rules on repeat offender, child pornography cases
Abigail Salisbury
May 19, 2008 10:26:00 am

The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Monday, including United States v. Rodriquez , where the Court ruled that for purposes of increasing a sentence under the...

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News Tax-exempt municipal bonds ruling [US SC]
Tax-exempt municipal bonds ruling [US SC]
May 19, 2008 09:40:00 am

Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion ....

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News 'Millennium bomber' conviction ruling [US SC]
'Millennium bomber' conviction ruling [US SC]
May 19, 2008 09:37:00 am

United States v. Ressam, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Alabama removes 10 Commandments from courthouse

On August 28, 2003, the Supreme Court of Alabama removed a monument of the Biblical Ten Commandments from its courthouse rotunda. The monument had been installed on the orders of Chief Justice Roy Moore, triggering a federal lawsuit. In Glassroth v. Moore, the federal District Court for the Middle District of Alabama ordered Moore to remove the monument. This decision was upheld on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit. When Moore refused, he was removed from his post by the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream" speech

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to 200,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington. Listen to King's speech. The march was later credited with helping to achieve passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Peace Palace opens

On August 28, 1913, the Peace Palace was opened in the Hague by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. The Palace was conceived of as a forum to host the international Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). In addition to the PCA, the Palace today hosts the International Court of Justice, the Hague Academy of International Law, and the Peace Palace Library of International Law. Learn more about the creation of the Peace Palace.

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