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News Iran Guardian Council certifies contested election results
Iran Guardian Council certifies contested election results
Andrew Morgan
June 29, 2009 02:21:00 pm

Iran's Guardian Council of the Constitution on Monday certified the results of the controversial June 12 presidential election , officially sanctioning the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [BBC profile; JURIST...

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News Re-arguments ordered in Supreme Court campaign finance case
Re-arguments ordered in Supreme Court campaign finance case
Andrew Morgan
June 29, 2009 01:05:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered re-argument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on whether Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission...

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News National Bank Act does not prevent state enforcement: Supreme Court
National Bank Act does not prevent state enforcement: Supreme Court
Andrew Morgan
June 29, 2009 11:51:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Cuomo v. Clearing House Association that the National Bank Act (NBA) and 12...

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News High court finds Title VII violation in firefighter reverse discrimination case
High court finds Title VII violation in firefighter reverse discrimination case
Andrew Morgan
June 29, 2009 10:13:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing racial discrimination challenges to the promotion criteria used by the fire department of New Haven, CT. The Court ruled 5-4...

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News DOJ says Guantanamo detainees have some constitutional protections: report
DOJ says Guantanamo detainees have some constitutional protections: report
Andrew Morgan
June 29, 2009 08:58:00 am

The US Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has cautioned that Guantanamo Bay detainees tried by military commission in the US have some constitutional protections , the Wall Street Journal ...

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News Rights group condemns closed Thailand royal defamation trial
Rights group condemns closed Thailand royal defamation trial
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 02:18:00 pm

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday called for a public trial for a Thai political activist accused of insulting the royal family. Judge Prommat Toosang on Wednesday ordered that the trial of Darunee Charnchoengsilpakul...

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News Brazil president signs controversial Amazon land privatization bill
Brazil president signs controversial Amazon land privatization bill
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 01:34:00 pm

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday approved a controversial bill that would allow legal privatization of publicly held Amazon land. The measure is aimed at stabilizing...

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News Senate committee defense budget includes military commission reforms
Senate committee defense budget includes military commission reforms
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 11:42:00 am

The US Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday the approval an appropriations bill that would alter the rules of evidence used in military commission trials. The version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...

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Impeached federal judge to resign at end of month
Andrew Morgan
June 26, 2009 09:53:00 am

Impeached federal judge Samuel Kent on Thursday resigned from his seat on the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas effective at the end of June. Kent's resignation comes a...

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Spain lower house votes to limit reach of universal jurisdiction statute
Andrew Morgan
June 25, 2009 02:40:00 pm

The Spanish Congress of Deputies voted 341-2 Thursday to limit use of the country's universal jurisdiction statute to those offenses committed by or against Spaniards, or...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court ruled Indians not US citizens

On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an American Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all Native Americans born in the US made citizens.

Last public execution at Tyburn Gallows in London

On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin's execution, Tyburn served as London's primary location for public executions.

Learn more about the trial of John Austin.

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