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News Second Navy SEAL acquitted in Iraqi prisoner assault case
Second Navy SEAL acquitted in Iraqi prisoner assault case
Ximena Marinero
April 24, 2010 04:50:00 pm

A Navy judge in Iraq acquitted US Navy SEAL Jonathan Keefe Friday of a charge of dereliction of duty in relation to the alleged assault of a high-profile Iraqi detainee implicated in the killing of four American...

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News Oregon jury orders Boy Scouts to pay $18.5 million in punitive damages for abuse
Oregon jury orders Boy Scouts to pay $18.5 million in punitive damages for abuse
Ximena Marinero
April 24, 2010 02:55:00 pm

An Oregon jury Friday found the Boy Scouts of America negligent for failing to take actions that would have prevented further sexual abuse by an assistant scoutmaster during the 1980s and ordered the organization to pay $18.5...

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News Advocacy groups to challenge Arizona immigration law as unconstitutional
Advocacy groups to challenge Arizona immigration law as unconstitutional
Bhargav Katikanen
April 24, 2010 11:37:00 am

Two Latino advocacy groups say they plan to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona's new immigration law, alleging it permits racial profiling. SB 1070 , signed into law Friday by Governor Jan Brewer, permits police to question...

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News New York man pleads guilty to subway bomb plot
New York man pleads guilty to subway bomb plot
Bhargav Katikanen
April 24, 2010 10:32:00 am

A New York man pleaded guilty Friday for plotting to bomb the New York City subway system in 2009. Zarein Ahmedzay appeared before US magistrate judge Steven Gold on charges of conspiracy to...

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News Arizona governor signs controversial illegal immigration bill
Arizona governor signs controversial illegal immigration bill
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 23, 2010 04:37:00 pm

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) on Friday signed into law a controversial bill that would require any individual suspected of being an illegal immigrant to present valid identification to law enforcement officials....

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News UK government to compensate pilot wrongly detained after 9/11
UK government to compensate pilot wrongly detained after 9/11
Daniel Richey
April 23, 2010 03:48:00 pm

Officials from the UK Ministry of Justice announced Friday that the government will award compensation to Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian-born UK man wrongfully detained in the wake of the 9/11 attacks . Raissi was jailed...

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News US prosecutors indict 11 suspected Somali pirates
US prosecutors indict 11 suspected Somali pirates
Jonathan Cohen
April 23, 2010 02:47:00 pm

US federal prosecutors have charged a group of 11 suspected Somali pirates in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia , according to indictments unsealed Friday. The US District Attorney...

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News Proposal to legalize limited commercial whaling unveiled
Proposal to legalize limited commercial whaling unveiled
Zach Zagger
April 23, 2010 01:29:00 pm

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) unveiled a draft proposal Thursday that would make limited commercial whaling legal for the first time in 25 years. The proposal reflects a compromise for the countries...

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Obama criticizes proposed Arizona illegal immigrant law
Steve Dotterer
April 23, 2010 12:58:00 pm

US President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed opposition to a pending Arizona bill that would require any individual suspected of being an illegal immigrant to present valid identification to law enforcement officials. In remarks...

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Europe rights court orders immediate release of Azeri journalist
Sarah Paulsworth
April 23, 2010 11:58:00 am

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ordered Azerbaijan's government to "secure the immediate release" of imprisoned Azeri journalist Eynulla Fatuallyev and pay him over 25,000 euros in compensation. Fatuallyev has...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Congress approves first Patent Act

On April 10, 1790, Congress approved the US's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the US Patent Board, the precursor to the modern US Patent Office. Read the current US Patent Law from the Cornell University Law School.

Hugo Grotius born

Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, statesman and father of international law was born in Delft, Holland, on April 10, 1583. His best-known work is De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), which he published in 1625.

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