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News Habyarimana assassination report [Rwanda Mutsinzi Commission]
Habyarimana assassination report [Rwanda Mutsinzi Commission]
January 11, 2010 05:18:00 pm

Report of the Investigation into the Causes and Circumstances of and Responsibility for the Attack of 06/04/1994 Against the Falcon 50 Rwandan Presidential Aeroplane, Registration Number 9XR-NN, Mutsinzi Commission of the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, January 11, 2010...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments in interstate radioactive waste disposal suit
Supreme Court hears arguments in interstate radioactive waste disposal suit
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
January 11, 2010 03:44:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Alabama v. North Carolina , the Court heard arguments on an interstate dispute over...

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News Russia law allowing house arrest to reduce prison population takes effect
Russia law allowing house arrest to reduce prison population takes effect
Patrice Collins
January 11, 2010 02:18:00 pm

A Russian law allowing minor offenders to serve their sentences under house arrest rather than in prison entered into force on Sunday. The bill, approved by the Russian State Duma last month...

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News California federal court begins Proposition 8 trial
California federal court begins Proposition 8 trial
Steve Dotterer
January 11, 2010 01:07:00 pm

A trial on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban commenced Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California . Proceedings included opening statements from lead attorneys and testimony...

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News Supreme Court temporarily blocks YouTube broadcast of Proposition 8 trial
Supreme Court temporarily blocks YouTube broadcast of Proposition 8 trial
Carrie Schimizzi
January 11, 2010 12:01:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked an order allowing delayed video coverage of the Proposition 8 trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban to be...

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News Denmark prosecutors add terrorism charge in Muhammad cartoonist attempted killing
Denmark prosecutors add terrorism charge in Muhammad cartoonist attempted killing
Megan McKee | JURIST Staff
January 11, 2010 11:58:00 am

Danish prosecutors on Monday brought an additional charge of terrorism against the Somali man already charged with the attempted murders of Kurt Westergaard, illustrator of the controversial 2005 cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a...

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News Rwanda report finds Hutus responsible for 1994 killing that sparked genocide
Rwanda report finds Hutus responsible for 1994 killing that sparked genocide
Ann Riley
January 11, 2010 11:52:00 am

The Rwandan government released a report Monday concluding that the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana was the work of Hutu extremists. An independent committee of experts found that Hutu extremists, including members...

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News Supreme Court rules <i>habeas</i> reviews cannot consider non-record evidence
Supreme Court rules habeas reviews cannot consider non-record evidence
Andrew Morgan
January 11, 2010 11:41:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in McDaniel v. Brown that a federal district court may not consider non-record evidence when conducting a sufficiency review of...

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News Iran chief prosecutor urges sedition trials for election protest leaders
Iran chief prosecutor urges sedition trials for election protest leaders
Andrew Morgan
January 11, 2010 10:42:00 am

Iran's Prosecutor-General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei on Monday called for sedition trials against leaders of protests following last June's contested presidential election . In a statement to Tehran prosecutors , Ejei said that he...

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News Italy authorities evacuate African immigrants following violence
Italy authorities evacuate African immigrants following violence
Hillary Stemple
January 11, 2010 09:50:00 am

Police in the southern Italian town of Rosarno began evacuating hundreds of African immigrants Saturday, following three days of violence that began Thursday when a group of immigrants was attacked while returning from the farms where they worked. The...

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Supreme Court ruled on Chinese Exclusion Act

On March 28, 1898, the US Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the US to Chinese immigrants was a US citizen and could not be deported under the terms of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Read US v. Wong Kim Ark and learn more about the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Thomas Hare born

On March 28, 1808, English jurist Thomas Hare was born in the United Kingdom. After being admitted to the Bar in 1833, Hare became a campaigner for electoral reform. He created the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system of proportional representation used in many democratic countries today. He was also an early law reporter, recording important judicial decisions in The Hare Law Reports before there was any official reporting of legal opinions in the UK. Read a biography of Thomas Hare and a description of the STV system from the Electoral Reform Society.

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