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News Report: NSA collected citizens’ phone records despite USA Freedom Act
Report: NSA collected citizens’ phone records despite USA Freedom Act
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
May 3, 2017 03:18:08 pm

The National Security Agency (NSA) published a report Tuesday saying that the agency had collected and stored more than 1.5 million civilian phone records in 2016. This report is the first that has been issued since the...

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News Puerto Rico files for bankruptcy protection under special law
Puerto Rico files for bankruptcy protection under special law
Devin Montgomery
May 3, 2017 02:04:07 pm

The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection for the territory following the expiration of provisions that had shielded it from litigation. The filing comes under Article 3 of...

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EU proposes Brexit negotiation terms
Devin Montgomery
May 3, 2017 10:38:03 am

European Commission Brexit Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier on Wednesday published the European Union's proposed directives for the UK's departure from the EU, saying the highest priorities were citizens' rights, financial settlement and border...

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HRW: Syria used chemical weapons in multiple attacks
Lindsay Offutt
May 2, 2017 03:22:48 pm

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that it has found new evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in at least four recent attacks targeting civilians. The groups said that local residents...

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Appeals court declines to reconsider net neutrality decision
Jennifer Suder
May 2, 2017 02:23:32 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said on Monday that it will not reconsider its ruling to uphold the government's "net neutrality" rules that require internet providers to treat...

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News Supreme Court declines to hear lawsuit against California ban on gay conversion therapy
Supreme Court declines to hear lawsuit against California ban on gay conversion therapy
Madison Chajson
May 2, 2017 01:57:28 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal challenging California's 2012 ban on "gay conversion" therapy. The law , signed by California Governor Jerry Brown , became the first of its...

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Supreme Court rules cities can sue banks for predatory lending practices
Devin Montgomery
May 1, 2017 04:08:14 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Monday in Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami that cities can use the Fair Housing Act (FHA) to sue banks for predatory lending practices. At issue were...

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UN rights chief: Egypt security measures encouraging radicalization
Meena Ansari
May 1, 2017 12:42:15 pm

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said Monday that Egypt's recent security measures have been encouraging the very radicalization they were trying to control. In a press conference in Geneva, al-Hussein...

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News Supreme Court to hear separation of powers, bankruptcy cases
Supreme Court to hear separation of powers, bankruptcy cases
Meena Ansari
May 1, 2017 12:06:52 pm

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in Patchak v. Zinke and Merit Management v. FTI Consulting on Monday. In Patchak, the court will decide if Section 2(b) of the Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

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