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News Egypt court overturns defamation sentence for rights activist
Egypt court overturns defamation sentence for rights activist
Christian Ehret
May 26, 2009 02:15:00 pm

An Egyptian court on Monday overturned the conviction of dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges related to defaming Egypt. Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Development Studies , has been a prominent human rights...

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News Liberia truth commission delegates recommend war crimes tribunal
Liberia truth commission delegates recommend war crimes tribunal
Andrew Morgan
May 26, 2009 01:35:00 pm

Delegates to Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have recommended that a war crimes court be established to try individuals accused of committing atrocities during the country's 1989-2003 civil war. Thirteen representatives from each of Liberia's 15...

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News California Supreme Court rejects challenges to Proposition 8
California Supreme Court rejects challenges to Proposition 8
Christian Ehret
May 26, 2009 01:12:00 pm

The California Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that constitutional challenges to Proposition 8 , which amended the California Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage , lacked merit and that the amendment stands as...

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News Supreme Court overrules right to counsel precedent
Supreme Court overrules right to counsel precedent
Andrew Morgan
May 26, 2009 11:20:00 am

The US Supreme Court issued three opinions on Tuesday. In Montejo v. Louisiana , the Court decided 5-4 to overturn its 1986 decision in Michigan v. Jackson , which found that...

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News Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court
Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court
Christian Ehret
May 26, 2009 10:04:00 am

US President Barack Obama on Monday announced Sonia Sotomayor as his nomination for the US Supreme Court . Sotomayor, currently a justice for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...

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News Same-sex partner child custody ruling [NY SC]
Same-sex partner child custody ruling [NY SC]
May 26, 2009 10:03:00 am

In the Matter of HM v. ET, et al., Supreme Court of the State of New York, May 26, 2009 [holding that a family court does not have jurisdiction over a child support claim against a same-sex partner with no...

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News Supreme Court to hear Vioxx fraud case
Supreme Court to hear Vioxx fraud case
Andrew Morgan
May 26, 2009 09:55:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in Merck & Co. v. Reynolds , in which the Court will decide when the statute of limitations begins to run in a...

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News Rwandan war crimes suspect extradition ruling [Sweden SC]
Rwandan war crimes suspect extradition ruling [Sweden SC]
May 26, 2009 09:34:00 am

Request for extradition of the Republic of Rwanda of SA agents and public defender, Supreme Court of Sweden, May 26, 2009 ....

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News Pakistan election ban ruling [Pakistan SC]
Pakistan election ban ruling [Pakistan SC]
May 26, 2009 09:28:00 am

Federation of Pakistan v. Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, et al., Supreme Court of Pakistan, May 26, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

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News California Proposition 8 ruling [CA SC]
California Proposition 8 ruling [CA SC]
May 26, 2009 09:20:00 am

Strauss, et al. v. Horton, et al., Supreme Court of California, May 26, 2009 . Reported...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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