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News Putin urges compromise in Ukraine
Putin urges compromise in Ukraine
Elizabeth LaForgia
June 22, 2014 02:47:03 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday expressed support for a cease-fire in Ukraine's battle against pro-Russian separatists and called for both sides to negotiate a compromise. Following a ceremony commemorating the millions who died following...

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News Florida legalizes ‘warning shots’ in self-defense
Florida legalizes ‘warning shots’ in self-defense
G. Redd
June 21, 2014 05:54:40 pm

Florida Governor Rick Scott on Friday signed into law House Bill 89 of 2014 , legalizing the threat of force in circumstances where actual force would be permitted as self-defense. The bill is...

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News Egyptian Court confirms mass death sentence for 183
Egyptian Court confirms mass death sentence for 183
G. Redd
June 21, 2014 05:39:36 pm

Judge Said Youssef of the Minya Criminal Court of Egypt on Friday confirmed the death sentence of 183 Muslim Brotherhood members while simultaneously acquitting over 400 in the death of police officers over a year ago. Only...

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News SEC files lawsuit to enforce insider trading subpoenas issued to Congress
SEC files lawsuit to enforce insider trading subpoenas issued to Congress
Ann Schober
June 21, 2014 12:39:48 pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York hoping to compel Congress to comply with subpoenas it received requesting information...

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News Federal appeals court strikes down Los Angeles ban on living in motor vehicles
Federal appeals court strikes down Los Angeles ban on living in motor vehicles
William Helbling
June 21, 2014 11:15:29 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday struck down a 31-year-old Los Angeles law which prohibits people from living out of their vehicles. Prior to the decision from the federal appeals...

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News EU court rules pregnant worker entitled to income support
EU court rules pregnant worker entitled to income support
William Helbling
June 21, 2014 10:25:16 am

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on Thursday ruled that a pregnant Frenchwoman was entitled to income support after she stopped working in Britain. The woman, Jessie Saint Prix, entered...

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News Turkish court orders retrial for hundreds of alleged coup plotters
Turkish court orders retrial for hundreds of alleged coup plotters
Ann Schober
June 21, 2014 08:53:46 am

A court in Istanbul on Thursday ordered the release and retrial of 230 prisoners convicted for their involvement in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot . The scheme, which originated as early as 2003, was aimed at overthrowing...

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News Egypt court sentences top Muslim Brotherhood official to death
Egypt court sentences top Muslim Brotherhood official to death
Bradley McAllister
June 20, 2014 08:31:12 am

The Giza Criminal Court in Egypt sentenced the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie , to death on Thursday for the second time in three months. Badie was sentenced along with...

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News UN reports breakdown of law and order in Ukraine
UN reports breakdown of law and order in Ukraine
Bradley McAllister
June 20, 2014 06:47:29 am

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday issued a report on Ukraine that cites increasing evidence of abductions, detentions, torture and killings in the two eastern regions of...

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Supreme Court expands First Amendment protections for public employees
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 19, 2014 02:58:39 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday in Lane v. Franks that a public employee's sworn testimony outside the scope of his ordinary job duties is entitled to First Amendment protection. Edward...

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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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