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News Tucson joins Arizona immigration lawsuit
Tucson joins Arizona immigration lawsuit
Dwyer Arce
June 2, 2010 01:28:31 pm

The city of Tucson, Arizona has joined a lawsuit against the the state's new immigration law , a court filing revealed Tuesday. Tucson was originally named as a defendant along...

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News Canada launches legal probe into Google privacy violations
Canada launches legal probe into Google privacy violations
Sarah Miley
June 2, 2010 11:20:45 am

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart announced Tuesday that an investigation has been launched into inadvertent data collection by Google while photographing streetscapes on unsecured wireless networks for its Street View...

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News Rights group condemns Libya executions
Rights group condemns Libya executions
Hillary Stemple
June 2, 2010 10:35:57 am

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday condemned the recent execution of 18 people in Libya . The executed were charged with pre-meditated murder and several were foreign nationals from Chad, Egypt, and Nigeria. AI...

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News ACLU renews calls for Bush-era detainee ‘torture’ investigation
ACLU renews calls for Bush-era detainee ‘torture’ investigation
Dwyer Arce
June 2, 2010 10:04:08 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday called on the Obama administration to stop shielding Bush administration officials from civil suit and criminal prosecution in relation to the treatment of detainees in US custody....

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News DOJ unprepared for WMD attack: report
DOJ unprepared for WMD attack: report
Sarah Miley
June 2, 2010 09:12:28 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has failed to formulate a coordinated response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD), according a report released Tuesday by DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine ....

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US states urge Supreme Court to limit military funeral protests
Hillary Stemple
June 2, 2010 09:00:55 am

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the right to limit protests around military funerals in the case of Snyder v. Phelps . The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST...

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China judges shot dead in courthouse
Dwyer Arce
June 2, 2010 08:20:10 am

Three judges were killed and three people were injured Tuesday in a Chinese courthouse by a security officer at a local bank. The shooter, Zhu Jun, was the head of security at a local Postal Savings Bank in Hunan...

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DOJ to initiate criminal probe of BP Gulf oil spill
Hillary Stemple
June 1, 2010 04:01:49 pm

US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing whether any criminal or civil laws were violated by BP resulting in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ....

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News Australia brings ICJ suit to end Japan whaling practice
Australia brings ICJ suit to end Japan whaling practice
Hillary Stemple
June 1, 2010 02:59:03 pm

The Australian government on Monday initiated proceedings against Japan in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) , claiming Japan has breached its obligations under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling . The...

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UN rights chief calls for international inquiry into Sri Lanka conflict
Dwyer Arce
June 1, 2010 01:50:40 pm

UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay on Monday called for an international inquiry into the conduct of the Sri Lankan government during its civil war . Pillay, speaking at the opening of the fourteenth...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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