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News Libya suspends law barring Gaddafi officials from office
Libya suspends law barring Gaddafi officials from office
Addison Morris
February 3, 2015 04:48:44 pm

Libya's House of Representatives on Monday voted to suspend the law barring from office any officials that served under Muammar Gaddafi . The law was passed in May 2013 by Libya's General National...

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DOJ announces $1.375 billion settlement with S&P
Addison Morris
February 3, 2015 01:39:30 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that, after two years of litigation, Standard & Poor's (S&P) on Monday reached an agreement to settle a series of lawsuits [DOJ...

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News Romania judge sentenced for accepting bribes
Romania judge sentenced for accepting bribes
Addison Morris
February 2, 2015 01:32:25 pm

Romania's Bucharest Appeals Court on Monday sentenced Judge Mircea Moldovan to 22 years in prison for several instances of taking bribes from wealthy Romanian businessman in exchange for ruling in their favor in court. Though...

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News Two states join Texas immigration lawsuit
Two states join Texas immigration lawsuit
Addison Morris
January 27, 2015 02:36:33 pm

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday that both Nevada and Tennessee have joined the state-led coalition in its suit against the Obama administration over November's executive action on immigration. This...

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News Former CIA officer convicted of espionage
Former CIA officer convicted of espionage
Addison Morris
January 27, 2015 01:04:55 pm

A jury in the US District Court Eastern District of Virginia on Monday convicted former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Jeffrey Sterling of violating the Espionage Act . Sterling was found guilty on all nine...

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Supreme Court rules on collective bargaining agreements
Addison Morris
January 26, 2015 12:04:39 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett on collective bargaining agreements for retirement healthcare benefits. The case was brought by retired employees of an M&G Polymers-owned plant, who...

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Supreme Court orders further proceedings for death row inmate
Addison Morris
January 20, 2015 02:44:28 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling and ordered further proceedings for Mark Christeson, a Missouri man convicted of killing a woman and her two children. The court determined that the...

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News Supreme Court rules Muslim prisoner may grow beard
Supreme Court rules Muslim prisoner may grow beard
Addison Morris
January 20, 2015 02:01:06 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday in Holt v. Hobbs that an Arkansas prison policy that bans Muslim prisoners from growing half-inch beards for religious beliefs is unconstitutional. The court held...

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News Supreme Court rules on Truth in Lending Act
Supreme Court rules on Truth in Lending Act
Addison Morris
January 13, 2015 11:45:51 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. , determining the requirements of the Truth in Lending Act . The court determined that a borrower may exercise...

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Human rights lawyer jailed in Tajikistan
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January 13, 2015 11:10:35 am

A court in Tajikistan on Tuesday sentenced Sukhrat Kudratov, an award-winning human rights lawyer, to nine years in prison for bribery and fraud. Kudratov, who was named human rights defender of the year in 2011 by the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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