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News Tennessee governor vetoes bill declaring the Bible the official state book
Tennessee governor vetoes bill declaring the Bible the official state book
Kasey Tuttle
April 15, 2016 12:13:39 pm

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam vetoed a controversial bill on Friday that would have made the Bible the state's official book. Haslam stated that the bill violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution as well as Article...

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News Canada introduces bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide
Canada introduces bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 15, 2016 11:59:19 am

A long-awaited bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide was introduced before the Parliament of Canada on Thursday and is now awaiting passage through the House of Commons and the Senate. This development comes over a year after...

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News Brazil Supreme Court denies president’s last attempt to avoid impeachment
Brazil Supreme Court denies president’s last attempt to avoid impeachment
Matthew Santiago
April 15, 2016 11:49:48 am

The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil on Friday denied President Dilma Rousseff's injunction request to suspend an upcoming lower house vote regarding her looming impeachment. A lower house committee voted earlier...

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News California appeals court upholds teacher tenure law
California appeals court upholds teacher tenure law
Kasey Tuttle
April 15, 2016 11:24:05 am

The Second District Court of Appeal for the state of California upheld the state's teacher tenure law on Thursday, overturning a lower court's 2014 decision . Those opposing the law claimed that providing teachers strong...

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News Connecticut judge allows Sandy Hook case to proceed against gunmakers
Connecticut judge allows Sandy Hook case to proceed against gunmakers
Matthew Santiago
April 15, 2016 10:57:16 am

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss raised by three gun companies who are being sued by families affected by the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. The ten families filed...

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Microsoft sues DOJ over customer email privacy
Justin Cosgrove
April 15, 2016 10:43:41 am

Microsoft sued the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday regarding the privacy of their customers' emails. Microsoft filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ...

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ACLU attempts to block Kansas voter ID law
Justin Cosgrove
April 15, 2016 07:55:21 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday asked a federal judge to issue an injunction pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed in February . The ACLU is attempting to block a...

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Second Circuit denies protections for Argentina creditors
Kasey Tuttle
April 15, 2016 06:03:36 am

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied creditors seeking to keep in place court-ordered protections following Argentina's 2001 default of $100 billion in bonds. Investors who had paid full price for their...

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UN rights chief urges Iran to stop executions for drug offenses
Brittany Felder
April 14, 2016 01:36:33 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein , on Thursday urged Iran to stop executions over drug offenses pending the debate of a law that would remove the mandatory death penalty as punishment...

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China human rights lawyer disbarred for criticizing government
Miracle Jones
April 14, 2016 01:27:42 pm

Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiangon announced Wednesday that his license to practice law was revoked by the judicial bureau. The bureau allegedly disbarred Pu from practicing law because of a December criminal conviction associated with...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court ruled corporations due equal protection rights

On May 10, 1886, the US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company that corporations were "persons" within the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore were due rights of equal protection under state law.

Nelson Mandela became first black president of South Africa

On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black President of South Africa. Before becoming President, Mandela was an anti-Apartheid leader in segregated South Africa. He served twenty-seven years in prison before his release in 1990, after which he was elected president of the country. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Read a biography of Nelson Mandela from the Nobel Foundation.

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