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Supreme Court rules tribal immunity does not apply to individuals
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April 25, 2017 02:49:36 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that tribal sovereign immunity does not extend to tribal employees acting in an individual capacity. Lewis v. Clarke arose when Brian and Michelle Lewis were injured in a car...

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Aaron Christenson
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Advocacy groups from around the world signed a joint statement on Thursday that called for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar. The release of the petition aligned with the third anniversary of U Win Tin's death, a...

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Russia police detain metro bombing suspect
Aaron Christenson
April 18, 2017 12:29:53 pm

Russian authorities say they have detained, and obtained a confession from, a man linked to a terrorist metro bombing in St. Petersburg that killed 14 passengers. The Russian Federal Security Service says that Abror Azimov pled...

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ECHR: Russia violated rights laws in 2004 hostage raid
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April 13, 2017 11:53:42 am

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday unanimously held that Russia violated European human rights laws when it raided a terrorist-held school in the Russian town of Beslan in 2004, leading to the death of...

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced that it had effectively disrupted the Kelihos botnet , a network of thousands of virus ridden computers used to glean personal information and login credentials by distributing malicious software...

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Earthjustice , an environmental law advocacy group filed a motion on Wednesday, on behalf of two other environmental groups asking a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to order the...

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The city of Seattle filed a lawsuit Wednesday against President Donald Trump's administration, arguing that their designation as a "sanctuary city" should not prevent them from receiving federal funds, as required by Executive Order 13768 . Seattle asked...

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The Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute on Monday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Trump administration seeking release of data on how often US citizens and others had...

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UN rights chief urges international participation in Sri Lanka war crimes probe
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March 23, 2017 12:23:26 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein presented his report on Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, stating that much work remains to make Sri Lanka's judiciary conform with...

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March 21, 2017 03:07:31 pm

Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Monday signed amendments to SB 196 , repealing language that barred "advocacy of homosexuality" in Utah public schools. The bill was amended to bar advocacy of "any premarital or extramarital sexual...

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UN approved Genocide Convention

On December 9, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly approved the first world treaty criminalizing genocide. See the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. For much more information, read Professor William Schabas' 1999 report The Genocide Convention at Fifty.

US Supreme Court stays Presidential recount in Florida

On December 9, 2000, the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to suspend the ongoing recount of Presidential election results in Florida. Three days later, the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, quashed the recount entirely, holding it unconstitutional. Learn more about the Florida recount from the JURIST archives.

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