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News Federal court blocks HHS policy on pregnant minors, grants class status
Federal court blocks HHS policy on pregnant minors, grants class status
Andrew Morgan
March 30, 2018 11:48:05 pm

The DC District Court on Friday blocked policies implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) limiting the ability of undocumented, minor immigrants in HHS custody to access abortion services. The preliminary...

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News Pennsylvania Governor, Lt. Governor and League of Women Voters respond to Supreme Court stay request
Pennsylvania Governor, Lt. Governor and League of Women Voters respond to Supreme Court stay request
Andrew Morgan
March 6, 2018 12:11:17 pm

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack and the state's chapter of the League of Women Voters on Monday responded to a request filed by Republican legislators to have the United States Supreme Court block implementation of...

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News Pennsylvania Republican legislators sue to block revised district maps
Pennsylvania Republican legislators sue to block revised district maps
Andrew Morgan
February 22, 2018 05:39:31 pm

A group of ten Republican legislators filed suit on Thursday seeking to prevent the new congressional map issued by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from taking effect. The suit, filed in the US District...

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News Pennsylvania legislators again ask US Supreme Court to block redistricting order
Pennsylvania legislators again ask US Supreme Court to block redistricting order
Andrew Morgan
February 21, 2018 09:36:55 pm

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and House Speaker Mike Turzai on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to stay an earlier decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court setting aside the...

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News Fourth Circuit upholds preliminary injunction of third Trump travel ban
Fourth Circuit upholds preliminary injunction of third Trump travel ban
Andrew Morgan
February 15, 2018 03:34:27 pm

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of US President Donald Trump's most recent travel ban . The appellate court concluded, based on...

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News Pennsylvania Supreme Court: equal, compact and contiguous districts are a constitutional requirement
Pennsylvania Supreme Court: equal, compact and contiguous districts are a constitutional requirement
Andrew Morgan
February 7, 2018 09:51:31 pm

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday explained that traditional district-drawing criteria mandated the court's decision last month to strike down the state's 2011 electoral map. While the court delivered its order finding...

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News Pennsylvania Senate President refuses to turn over redistricting data to state Supreme Court
Pennsylvania Senate President refuses to turn over redistricting data to state Supreme Court
Andrew Morgan
February 1, 2018 05:26:56 pm

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati on Wednesday refused to produce legislative district data to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court . On Monday, the Supreme Court had ordered the parties in League of...

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News US federal court terminates Republican-Democrat consent decree on ‘ballot security’
US federal court terminates Republican-Democrat consent decree on ‘ballot security’
Andrew Morgan
January 9, 2018 02:39:49 pm

A US federal judge on Monday terminated a consent decree requiring the Republican National Committee (RNC) to get court approval for any "ballot security" measures it planned to implement. Judge John Michael Vazquez of...

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News Trump issues cease and desist letter to critical author, publisher
Trump issues cease and desist letter to critical author, publisher
Andrew Morgan
January 4, 2018 01:29:15 pm

Lawyers for US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a cease and desist letter seeking to prevent publication of a forthcoming book critical of his campaign and first year in office. The letter alleges that author...

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Bulgaria president vetoes anti-corruption bill
Andrew Morgan
January 2, 2018 04:36:08 pm

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Tuesday vetoed an anti-corruption measure adopted last month by the country's National Assembly . The Law for Counteracting Corruption and Forfeiture of the Unlawfully Acquired Property ,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Berlin Airlift ends

The Berlin Airlift, a US-UK effort to circumvent a Soviet blockade of allied-occupied West Berlin, ended on September 30, 1949. After the Soviet Union cut off supply access to West Berlin, the US and UK sent necessities to the enclave by air. The effort ended four months after the Soviet Union ended the Berlin blockade. Learn more about the Berlin Airlift.

22 Nazi leaders convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg

On September 30, 1946, the international military tribunal constituted by the Allied powers in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes committed during World War II.

Merck pulls Vioxx from drug market and faces class actions suit

On September 30, 2004, the pharmaceutical company, Merck, pulled its arthritis drug, Vioxx from the worldwide market, due to strokes and heart attacks in patients, but the move did not stop over 45,000 former users and their families from suing Merck. The plaintiffs, however, have struggled to collect damages awarded to them in successful litigations. Learn more about the plaintiffs in these suits from the New York Times.

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