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News DC Circuit upholds default damages judgment against Syria
DC Circuit upholds default damages judgment against Syria
Maureen Cosgrove
May 21, 2011 09:47:51 am

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday unanimously ruled to uphold a $413 million judgment against Syria for assisting in the the murders of two US contractors. In 2004,...

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News Russia president Medvedev calls for legal reforms, stronger judiciary
Russia president Medvedev calls for legal reforms, stronger judiciary
Zach Zagger
May 20, 2011 04:27:18 pm

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed the need for Russia to improve its legal system and make a better commitment to the rule of law, during a speech at a legal forum in St....

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News Somali pirate pleads guilty in US court
Somali pirate pleads guilty in US court
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 04:24:37 pm

A Somali man pleaded guilty to charges of piracy and hostage taking on Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for overtaking a yacht containing four American citizens. The...

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News Iran implicated in 9/11 attacks by lawsuit
Iran implicated in 9/11 attacks by lawsuit
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 03:50:56 pm

A lawsuit by relatives of 9/11 victims has alleged that Iran knowingly aided al Qaeda in carrying out the attacks, according to affidavits filed Thursday. Included in...

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News Federal judge grants punitive damages against Iran for suicide bombings
Federal judge grants punitive damages against Iran for suicide bombings
Zach Zagger
May 20, 2011 03:14:07 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday granted $300 million in punitive damages in each of two cases against Iran for deaths resulting from suicide bombings by Iranian-backed terrorist groups....

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News France court orders Chirac corruption trial to resume
France court orders Chirac corruption trial to resume
Zach Zagger
May 20, 2011 02:23:20 pm

The French Court of Cassation , the country's highest appeals court, ruled that the corruption trial against former French president Jacques Chirac can continue, rejecting a constitutional challenge brought by one...

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News Belarus delivers suspended sentences to 2 presidential candidates for inciting riots
Belarus delivers suspended sentences to 2 presidential candidates for inciting riots
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 02:18:42 pm

Belarus' Minsk City Court delivered suspended sentences on Friday to two former presidential candidates, Uladzimer Nyaklyaeu and Vital Rymasheuski, convicted of organizing protests following the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in December....

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News Taiwan court indicts general for China espionage
Taiwan court indicts general for China espionage
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 12:35:33 pm

A military court in Taiwan indicted a one-star general who confessed to spying for China on Friday. General Lo Hsien-che confessed to accepting bribes and divulging state secrets since March 2004. Due to his confession and relinquishment...

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News Texas governor signs law requiring sonogram before abortion
Texas governor signs law requiring sonogram before abortion
Zach Zagger
May 20, 2011 12:21:59 pm

Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law Thursday a bill that requires women seeking an abortion to first get a sonogram. The law requires doctors to conduct a ultrasound and...

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Japan agrees to sign international child abduction treaty
Julia Zebley
May 20, 2011 11:49:23 am

Japan announced Friday that they will be signing the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction at next week's G8 summit . Signatories of the Convention are required to return a child who...

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Slave trade abolished in Britain

A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

Learn more about slavery and the slave trade in Britain.

Scottsboro Boys arrested

On March 25, 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama for allegedly raping two white women. Twelve days later, the young men were put on trial in the nearby town of Scottsboro. After numerous the proceedings culminated in two landmark decisions by the US Supreme Court, Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. Ultimately, the death sentences issued by the jury were overturned, but the defendants were nonetheless sent to prison. The trials of the Scottsboro Boys have come to symbolize the role of race in the criminal justice system of the Jim Crow South. Read a history of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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