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News Spain Supreme Court refuses to reinstate warrant for Catalan ex-president’s arrest
Spain Supreme Court refuses to reinstate warrant for Catalan ex-president’s arrest
Lindsay Offutt
January 23, 2018 07:23:53 am

The Supreme Court of Spain on Monday refused to reissue the arrest warrant for Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont. Puigdemont fled Spain in October after the Spanish government overtook Catalonia. He...

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News Military judge finds no violation for destruction of CIA ‘black site’
Military judge finds no violation for destruction of CIA ‘black site’
Elizabeth Lowman
January 23, 2018 06:07:35 am

Military judge James Pohl ruled on Friday that no wrongdoing occurred when the prosecution destroyed a CIA secret prison, or "black site," on Pohl's orders. At the time Pohl gave the prosecution permission to destroy the...

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News Pennsylvania Supreme Court strikes down congressional districting plan as unconstitutional
Pennsylvania Supreme Court strikes down congressional districting plan as unconstitutional
Elizabeth Lowman
January 22, 2018 03:03:15 pm

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Monday struck down the Congressional Redistricting Act of 2011 as violating the state constitution. The plaintiffs in the League of Women Voters v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania accused...

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News Supreme Court rules federal district courts retain jurisdiction over EPA clean water rule
Supreme Court rules federal district courts retain jurisdiction over EPA clean water rule
Austin Koltonowski
January 22, 2018 02:22:35 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense that cases litigating the Clean Water Act should be heard by federal district courts. At issue...

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News Supreme Court rules ‘toll’ means ‘stop the clock’ in federal jurisdiction statute
Supreme Court rules ‘toll’ means ‘stop the clock’ in federal jurisdiction statute
Brittney Zeller
January 22, 2018 12:52:50 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Artis v. District of Columbia that the "instruction to 'toll' a state limitations period means to hold it in abeyance, i.e., to stop the clock." The...

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News Supreme Court agrees to hear frog habitat case
Supreme Court agrees to hear frog habitat case
Akira Tomlinson
January 22, 2018 12:45:06 pm

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari on Monday in an environmental case. Weyerhaeuser Co. v. US Fish & Wildlife Service concerns the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to preserve the the "dusky...

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News Former DOE employee files whistleblower complaint after being fired for leaked photo
Former DOE employee files whistleblower complaint after being fired for leaked photo
Lawrenz Fares
January 22, 2018 12:17:52 pm

A former Department of Energy (DOE) has filed a whistleblower complaint claiming that he was fired after releasing controversial photographs of Energy Secretary Rick Perry embracing coal executive Robert Murray during...

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News Supreme Court rules for DC police in house party case
Supreme Court rules for DC police in house party case
Kenneth Hall
January 22, 2018 11:48:29 am

The US Supreme Court held Monday in District of Columbia v. Wesby that DC police officers acted reasonably when they arrested 21 people for unlawful entry during a house party in 2008, given that...

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News Trump administration rescinds Obama guidance on Medicaid coverage for Planned Parenthood
Trump administration rescinds Obama guidance on Medicaid coverage for Planned Parenthood
Elizabeth Lowman
January 22, 2018 08:36:43 am

The Trump administration announced in a letter to state Medicaid directors on Friday that it will be rescinding the Obama administration's guidance that made it more difficult for state Medicaid programs to refuse to cover...

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News Connecticut Supreme Court rules education funding constitutional
Connecticut Supreme Court rules education funding constitutional
Christopher Hsu
January 22, 2018 06:50:57 am

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled last week that the state's education funding formula does not violate the state constitution . The decision, which reverses a lower court ruling , came this week after 14 months of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Congress approves first Patent Act

On April 10, 1790, Congress approved the US's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the US Patent Board, the precursor to the modern US Patent Office. Read the current US Patent Law from the Cornell University Law School.

Hugo Grotius born

Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, statesman and father of international law was born in Delft, Holland, on April 10, 1583. His best-known work is De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), which he published in 1625.

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