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News Pakistan urged to protect journalists from violence
Pakistan urged to protect journalists from violence
Julie Deisher-Edwards
April 30, 2014 06:16:40 pm

Amnesty International (AI) called on the Pakistani government on Wednesday to address human rights abuses against media workers in Pakistan. In a report also released Wednesday, AI documents the brutal treatment of media...

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News Chemical weapons watchdog group to investigate attacks in Syria
Chemical weapons watchdog group to investigate attacks in Syria
Julie Deisher-Edwards
April 30, 2014 05:34:27 pm

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced Tuesday that it would begin a fact-finding mission into allegations of the use of chlorine gas in Syria. Although both rebel forces and the Syrian...

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Supreme Court hears final arguments of term
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 30, 2014 04:45:44 pm

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard its final oral arguments of the term. In Limelight Networks v. Akamai Technologies the court heard arguments on whether a company can be...

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News Ohio couples challenge same-sex marriage ban
Ohio couples challenge same-sex marriage ban
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 30, 2014 12:07:33 pm

Six Ohio couples on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio , challenges the constitutional...

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News Oklahoma death row inmate dies after botched adminstering of lethal injection
Oklahoma death row inmate dies after botched adminstering of lethal injection
Peter Snyder
April 30, 2014 11:03:50 am

Oklahoma death row inmate Clayton Lockett died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday shortly after doctors called off a failed attempt to execute him using a new cocktail of lethal injection drugs. According to the state corrections department, 13...

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Federal judge strikes down Wisconsin voter ID law
Peter Snyder
April 30, 2014 10:34:04 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ruled Tuesday that Wisconsin's Act 23 , which requires residents to present photo identification to vote, violates the Voting Rights Act...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on warrantless cell phone searches
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 29, 2014 02:07:19 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a pair of cases dealing with warrantless searches of suspects' cell phones. Riley v. California is a state court case that...

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Kenya president signs polygamy bill into law
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 29, 2014 12:04:16 pm

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill allowing polygamy. The Marriage Act 2014 brings civil law in line with customary law , where some cultures allow...

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Russia parliament approves Internet restricting bills
Taylor Gillan
April 29, 2014 11:29:09 am

Russia's upper house of parliament on Tuesday approved a set of bills that apply new restrictions on the Internet and blogging, a move widely criticized by both pro-democracy activists and Russia's technology sector alike. Critics of the draft laws...

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Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 29, 2014 11:12:04 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 Tuesday in Environmental Protection Agency v. EME Homer City Generation that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not overstep its authority when it issued a...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bakke affirmative action case argued

On October 12, 1977, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, a white student denied admission to University of California Davis Medical School. The court ruled the following year that that the Davis affirmative action plan was unconstitutional; Bakke was admitted to UC Davis Medical School and eventually graduated from there with his MD. Listen to the oral arguments and the reading of opinions by Chief Justice Burger, Justice Powell and others on Oyez.

Bakke affirmative action case argued

On October 12, 1977, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, a white student denied admission to University of California Davis Medical School.

The Court ruled the following year that that the Davis affirmative action plan was unconstitutional; Bakke was admitted to UC Davis Medical School and eventually graduated from there with his MD. Listen to the oral arguments and the reading of opinions by Chief Justice Burger, Justice Powell and others on Oyez, the Supreme Court multimedia site at Northwestern University.

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