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News Iran authorities arrest academics affiliated with Mousavi: report
Iran authorities arrest academics affiliated with Mousavi: report
Christian Ehret
June 25, 2009 01:55:00 pm

Iranian authorities arrested 70 members of the Islamic Association of University Teachers after they met with opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi on Wednesday, according to a statement on Mousavi's website ....

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Guantanamo is symbol of degraded torture convention: UN rights chief
Andrew Morgan
June 25, 2009 01:27:00 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday that the US detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are "high-profile symbols" of a trend toward finding ways to circumvent...

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Senate accepts articles of impeachment for federal judge
Christian Ehret
June 25, 2009 01:19:00 pm

The US Senate began the impeachment trial process for Judge Samuel Kent Wednesday for alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors" after accepting the articles of impeachment from the US House of Representatives...

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AG Holder urges cocaine sentencing disparity reform
Christian Ehret
June 25, 2009 11:59:00 am

US Attorney General Eric Holder urged sentencing reform for crack cocaine Wednesday, calling for a review of disparities between sentencing guidelines for powder and crack. Addressing a symposium on federal sentencing policy hosted by the...

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Sudan court convicts 5 for murder of USAID workers
Andrew Morgan
June 25, 2009 11:56:00 am

A Sudanese court on Wednesday convicted five men of the January 2008 murder of two US Agency for International Development (USAID) employees, sentencing four to death. Mohamed Makkawi Ibrahim Mohamed and Abdel Basit al-Hajj Hassan were found...

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Forensic lab reports are ‘testimonial evidence’: Supreme Court
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 25, 2009 11:40:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts that a forensic analyst's laboratory report is testimonial evidence under the Confrontation Clause [Cornell LII...

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Supreme Court rules school strip search violates Fourth Amendment
Christian Ehret
June 25, 2009 10:30:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in Safford United School District #1 v. Redding that a strip search of a school student violated her Fourth Amendment...

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Injured seaman entitled to damages for failure to pay benefits: Supreme Court
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 25, 2009 10:07:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 in Atlantic Sounding v. Townsend that an injured seaman may recover punitive damages for the willful failure of his...

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Supreme Court remands Arizona English language education funding case
Andrew Morgan
June 25, 2009 10:04:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 in Horne v. Flores and Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives v. Flores that the US Court of...

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Fourth Circuit upholds Virginia ‘partial birth’ abortion ban
Christian Ehret
June 25, 2009 08:37:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a Virginia law Wednesday that bans "partial birth" abortions , reversing previous rulings that found it unconstitutional. The...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

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