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News Ninth Circuit upholds injunction against third travel ban
Ninth Circuit upholds injunction against third travel ban
Lawrenz Fares
December 27, 2017 02:16:47 pm

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against President Trump's third travel ban last Friday. The three-judge panel stated that under the Immigration and Nationality Act , the...

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News Sessions rescinds protection against excessive fining by local courts
Sessions rescinds protection against excessive fining by local courts
Lawrenz Fares
December 26, 2017 01:17:24 pm

Over the course of the past week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has revoked a total of 25 Obama-era Department of Justice (DOJ) guidelines. Among them was a 2016 guideline that advised local...

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News Federal judge grants ACLUF access to American detained in Iraq
Federal judge grants ACLUF access to American detained in Iraq
Austin Koltonowski
December 26, 2017 11:53:42 am

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Saturday ruled that the US must allow the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLUF) access to an American citizen being held in US military custody in Iraq. On...

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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
JURISTbot
December 23, 2017 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Ugandan parliament voted on Wednesday to eliminate the presidential age limit of 75 years. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday...

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News US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
JURISTbot
December 23, 2017 12:00:03 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. ...

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News Trump signs sweeping US tax bill into law
Trump signs sweeping US tax bill into law
Andrew Morgan
December 22, 2017 05:23:36 pm

US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. At the signing ceremony, Trump touted what he sees...

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News Second federal judge blocks Trump contraception coverage policy
Second federal judge blocks Trump contraception coverage policy
Austin Koltonowski
December 22, 2017 03:28:28 pm

The US District Court for the Northern District of California , on Thursday, granted a preliminary injunction to block the Trump Administration's policy allowing employers with religious or moral objections to deny women insurance coverage for contraceptives. In issuing...

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News Federal court dismisses lawsuit raising constitutional claims against President Trump
Federal court dismisses lawsuit raising constitutional claims against President Trump
Jennifer Suder
December 22, 2017 11:49:24 am

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dismissed a case against President Donald Trump, which accused him of violating the Constitution's emoluments clause . The plaintiffs argued that Trump failed to...

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News Federal court rejects government’s push to prevent transgender military recruits
Federal court rejects government’s push to prevent transgender military recruits
Jennifer Suder
December 22, 2017 10:47:15 am

US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied the Trump Administration's bid to forestall transgender recruits from military service. Thursday's order merely denied the administration's plea to suspend an order by a federal judge in...

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News UN General Assembly demands compliance with Jerusalem-related Security Council decisions
UN General Assembly demands compliance with Jerusalem-related Security Council decisions
Andrew Morgan
December 21, 2017 03:37:03 pm

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday demanded that all member states comply with Resolutions issued by the Security Council regarding the status of Jerusalem. The General Assembly described city as "a final status...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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