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News Supreme Court hears arguments on strip searches, deportation
Supreme Court hears arguments on strip searches, deportation
Erin Bock
October 13, 2011 09:24:08 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday. In Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington , the court considered whether a suspect's Fourth...

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News Attempted plane bomber pleads guilty to all charges
Attempted plane bomber pleads guilty to all charges
Dan Taglioli
October 12, 2011 01:54:49 pm

Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to all counts of a criminal indictment charging him for his role in...

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News Alabama defends immigration law in federal appeals court
Alabama defends immigration law in federal appeals court
Andrea Bottorff
October 12, 2011 01:49:27 pm

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange on Tuesday submitted a filing in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit asking the court not to stay the state's controversial immigration law . The filing was...

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News Florida challenges federal voting rights law
Florida challenges federal voting rights law
Dan Taglioli
October 12, 2011 01:11:07 pm

Florida submitted a request to the US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday seeking declaratory judgments regarding recently-enacted changes to the state's Election Code , four sections of which require Section 5 ...

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News Afghanistan government denies UN torture allegations
Afghanistan government denies UN torture allegations
Andrea Bottorff
October 12, 2011 12:26:27 pm

Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior Affairs and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday denied prisoner torture allegations made earlier this week in a UN report. A spokesperson for the Ministry said at a press conference that...

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News UN urged to stop political interference in Cambodia genocide tribunal
UN urged to stop political interference in Cambodia genocide tribunal
Ashley Hileman
October 12, 2011 10:45:07 am

Rights groups urged the UN Tuesday to assure that Cambodia will not interfere in a tribunal established by the UN charged with investigating the communist Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s. The pressure for...

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News Ecuador president approves new antitrust law
Ecuador president approves new antitrust law
Ashley Hileman
October 12, 2011 10:11:46 am

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Tuesday enacted an antitrust law, provisions of which further his conflict with the country's news media. The new law specifically bars news media owners and bankers...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on workers compensation, arbitration
Supreme Court hears arguments on workers compensation, arbitration
Julia Zebley
October 12, 2011 08:04:10 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases on Tuesday. In Pacific Operators Offshore LLP v. Valladolid , the court considered when an outer continental shelf worker, injured on...

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News Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko sentenced to 7 years
Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko sentenced to 7 years
Julia Zebley
October 12, 2011 07:01:44 am

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday on charges of abuse of power and corruption. Judge Rodion Kireyev also barred Tymoshenko from serving public...

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News Supreme Court to hear double jeopardy case
Supreme Court to hear double jeopardy case
Sarah Posner
October 11, 2011 01:19:25 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in two cases. In Blueford v. Arkansas , the court will decide whether the Double Jeopardy clause prevents the re-prosecution...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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