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News Abortion rights groups ask Supreme Court to halt Texas law
Abortion rights groups ask Supreme Court to halt Texas law
Addison Morris
November 4, 2013 02:37:27 pm

Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups on Monday filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court to reinstate a previous injunction blocking the implementation of a Texas law ...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on jurisdiction, labor law
Supreme Court hears arguments on jurisdiction, labor law
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
November 4, 2013 02:18:06 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Walden v. Fiore the court heard arguments on two questions of venue and jurisdiction . Gina...

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News Supreme Court dismisses Oklahoma ‘abortion pill’ case
Supreme Court dismisses Oklahoma ‘abortion pill’ case
Peter Snyder
November 4, 2013 11:54:16 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case concerning an attempt by the Oklahoma state government to resurrect a state law that limited the uses of the abortion drug RU-486 . The...

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News Former Pakistan president Musharraf granted bail in Red Mosque killings case
Former Pakistan president Musharraf granted bail in Red Mosque killings case
Cynthia Miley
November 4, 2013 11:50:43 am

Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf was granted bail on Monday in a criminal case relating to the death of radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi during an operation ordered by Musharraf on Islamabad's Red Mosque,...

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News Ireland constitutional convention recommends replacing blasphemy ban
Ireland constitutional convention recommends replacing blasphemy ban
Peter Snyder
November 4, 2013 11:05:30 am

The Irish Convention on the Constitution voted Sunday in favor of recommending that the offense of blasphemy in the Irish Constitution be altered and replaced with a new general provision to include...

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News Egypt court adjourns Morsi trial until January
Egypt court adjourns Morsi trial until January
Cynthia Miley
November 4, 2013 10:36:51 am

The trial of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi for inciting the murder of several protesters began on Monday but was adjourned until January. According to Egyptian news sources, Morsi rejected the court's authority by refusing...

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News Bangladesh tribunal sentences 2 men to death for crimes against humanity
Bangladesh tribunal sentences 2 men to death for crimes against humanity
Max Slater
November 4, 2013 09:24:51 am

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Sunday sentenced two men to death for crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The court found Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, both members of...

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Kenya court charges 4 in shopping mall terrorist attack
Max Slater
November 4, 2013 08:53:39 am

A Kenyan court on Monday charged four people with aiding terrorism relating to a four-day siege at a Nairobi shopping mall last month. The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack, in...

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Obama administration establishes climate change task force
Julie Deisher-Edwards
November 3, 2013 01:12:52 pm

President Barack Obama on Friday established by Executive Order a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. The task force, with members including state, local and tribal officials and executive agencies, is to advise the federal...

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Kosovo holds first local elections since secession from Serbia
Julie Deisher-Edwards
November 3, 2013 12:20:14 pm

Kosovo on Sunday held its first elections for mayors and local councilors since the country's secession from Serbia . The elections, facilitated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) , are mandated...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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