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News African leaders to request Kenyan leaders be tried domestically
African leaders to request Kenyan leaders be tried domestically
G. Redd
May 24, 2013 03:03:40 pm

African foreign ministers agreed Friday to request that Kenyan leaders accused of inciting violence following the 2007 elections stand trial in their home country rather than before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. This follows...

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News Nokia files patent infringement suit against HTC
Nokia files patent infringement suit against HTC
G. Redd
May 24, 2013 12:38:35 pm

Finnish telecommunications company Nokia filed suit against Taiwanese company HTC Thursday for selling products in the US that infringe Nokia's patents on mobile technology. Three patents in question involve program products typically used in hand sets for...

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News Tenth Circuit hears Hobby Lobby appeal of health care ruling
Tenth Circuit hears Hobby Lobby appeal of health care ruling
Julie Deisher-Edwards
May 24, 2013 11:51:00 am

Hobby Lobby, Inc. requested an exemption from the mandate to provide employees with coverage for contraceptives under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in an en banc hearing before the US Court...

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News Allies of Kosovo PM probed over war crime allegations
Allies of Kosovo PM probed over war crime allegations
G. Redd
May 24, 2013 11:42:52 am

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) and the Kosovo Police Special Operations Unit ROSU arrested five people Thursday on suspicion of war crimes in the 1998-1999 conflict ....

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News Federal judge gives preliminary view that DOJ will prevail in Apple antitrust case
Federal judge gives preliminary view that DOJ will prevail in Apple antitrust case
Julie Deisher-Edwards
May 24, 2013 10:23:25 am

US District Judge Denise Cote expressed a tentative view on Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be able to show at trial that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise...

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News Afghanistan lawmakers approve new electoral law
Afghanistan lawmakers approve new electoral law
G. Redd
May 24, 2013 10:19:36 am

The Afghan Parliament approved two new electoral laws Wednesday that will take effect in the elections next spring. According to Tolo News of Afghanistan , the statutes in question will provide a legal framework for the quarantine of...

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News Obama addresses US drone strikes, steps to close Guantanamo
Obama addresses US drone strikes, steps to close Guantanamo
Alison Sacriponte
May 24, 2013 09:38:24 am

US President Barack Obama delivered a speech Thursday on US counterterrorism policy and efforts, outlining plans to restrict the use of unmanned drone strikes and to renew efforts to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay...

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News Guantanamo lawyers seek end to allegedly abusive search policy
Guantanamo lawyers seek end to allegedly abusive search policy
Matthew Pomy
May 24, 2013 08:43:13 am

Lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay prisoners filed a complaint Thursday alleging search policies restrict the detainees' access to counsel. According to a new policy , detainees are subject to a genital pat-down whenever...

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News Amnesty International publishes annual human rights report
Amnesty International publishes annual human rights report
Matthew Pomy
May 24, 2013 07:08:43 am

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday published its annual report entitled State of the World's Human Rights , which details the human rights landscape across the world in 2012. The report focuses on the increasing danger faced by...

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News Malaysia authorities seize newspapers, detain opposition activists
Malaysia authorities seize newspapers, detain opposition activists
Julie Deisher-Edwards
May 23, 2013 12:34:44 pm

The Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday seized more than 2,500 copies of newspapers published by opposition parties. The Ministry states that the seized newspapers were sold in violation of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Julius Caesar assassinated on Ides of March

Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated at the Roman Forum by a number of his own senators led by Marcus Brutus on March 15, 44 BC over concerns that he was becoming too powerful. The assassination wound up being a political failure as the Roman citizenry ended up becoming incensed at the conspirators and a civil war broke out, which Brutus and his supporters lost to Mark Antony and Octavian (later Augustus). William Shakespeare later wrote in his eponymous play about the assassination, "Beware the ides of March." Learn more about the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg born

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933.

Learn more about Justice Ginsburg from Oyez, the Supreme Court multimedia project at Northwestern University.

Code Napoleon promulgated

On March 15, 1803, the Code Napoleon (French Civil Code) was promulgated in France. The Code is considered the first successful legal code in Europe and is still used today as the basis for the modern French Civil Code. Napoleon's conquests spread his Code across the European Continent, influencing modern legal codes in Portugal, Austria, Italy, and other nations. Read a history of the Code Napoleon.

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