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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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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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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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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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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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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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UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.

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