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News Obama signs bill to increase US southern border security
Obama signs bill to increase US southern border security
Andrea Bottorff
August 14, 2010 11:00:47 am

US President Barack Obama Friday signed legislation designed to increase security along the US-Mexico border. The Act allocates an additional $600 million toward hiring 1,000 new Border Patrol agents and 200...

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News Federal judge approves $600 million Countrywide class action settlement
Federal judge approves $600 million Countrywide class action settlement
Andrea Bottorff
August 4, 2010 07:29:46 am

US District Court for the Central District of California judge Mariana Pfaelzer on Monday gave preliminary approval to a settlement in which Countrywide Financial Corporation agreed to pay $600 million to settle several class action...

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News Class action lawyers allege Toyota knew about safety problems
Class action lawyers allege Toyota knew about safety problems
Andrea Bottorff
August 4, 2010 07:28:16 am

A revised complaint to a class action lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California claimed that the company was...

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News GE agrees to settle SEC complaint in oil-for-food scandal
GE agrees to settle SEC complaint in oil-for-food scandal
Andrea Bottorff
July 28, 2010 08:26:24 am

General Electric Co. (GE) on Tuesday agreed to a $23.5 million settlement after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint accusing GE of bribing Iraqi officials to receive...

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News Russia court jails neo-Nazis for hate crimes
Russia court jails neo-Nazis for hate crimes
Andrea Bottorff
July 28, 2010 07:25:54 am

A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced 14 neo-Nazis , including a group leader and several teenagers, to jail terms for committing hate crimes against ethnic minorities in the country. The group leader, 22-year-old Dmitry Orlov, was sentenced...

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News Rights group sues UK government over failure to report DRC conflict minerals trade
Rights group sues UK government over failure to report DRC conflict minerals trade
Andrea Bottorff
July 27, 2010 07:52:36 am

UK rights group Global Witness (GW) on Monday filed suit against the UK government for failing to report several UK companies to the UN Sanctions Committee for allegedly trading "conflict minerals" from the...

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Federal judge refuses to dismiss charges against ex-Guantanamo detainee
Andrea Bottorff
July 14, 2010 08:22:25 am

A federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss charges against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani , ruling that his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was not...

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UK PM announces plans for criminal justice reform
Andrea Bottorff
July 14, 2010 07:47:03 am

UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday announced the coalition government's plans to reform the criminal justice system to include lesser prison sentences and more community punishment options. The Ministry of Justice [official...

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News Rights group sues over Nebraska abortion law requiring psychological screening
Rights group sues over Nebraska abortion law requiring psychological screening
Andrea Bottorff
June 29, 2010 07:27:56 am

Women's rights group Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit on Monday opposing a new Nebraska law that will require doctors to perform psychological screenings of patients seeking...

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Belgium officials accused in murder of former Congo leader
Andrea Bottorff
June 22, 2010 09:33:43 am

A team of Belgian lawyers on Monday filed a complaint in a Brussels court against 12 Belgian officials accused of planning the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba , the first democratically-elected leader of the Democratic Republic of the...

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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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