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News Rights group reports details of extensive rape in Syrian war
Rights group reports details of extensive rape in Syrian war
Dominic Yobbi
March 26, 2016 11:29:30 am

The Syria Accountability Project (SAP) of Syracuse University College of Law on Thursday released a report detailing statistics of extensive rape that has occurred throughout the civil war in Syria over the past six years. The...

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News Florida governor signs abortion bill ending funding to clinics
Florida governor signs abortion bill ending funding to clinics
Dominic Yobbi
March 26, 2016 10:29:43 am

Florida Governor Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill into law that will cut off state funding to clinics providing abortions as well as impose more restrictions on abortions in the state. The law,...

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News Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice resigns over e-mail scandal
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice resigns over e-mail scandal
Dominic Yobbi
March 15, 2016 05:50:21 pm

A second Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice resigned Tuesday over of a growing scandal that involves hundreds of offensive e-mails. Justice Michael Eakin is the second justice to retire after Justice Seamus McCaffery retired immediately after being suspended...

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News Supreme Court decides case on diversity jurisdiction
Supreme Court decides case on diversity jurisdiction
Dominic Yobbi
March 7, 2016 01:42:46 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday held that for the purposes of diversity jurisdiction, citizenship of an investment trust depends on the citizenship of its members, which includes its shareholders. In Americold Realty Trust v....

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News Kuwait top court upholds 4-year sentence for insulting judges on Twitter
Kuwait top court upholds 4-year sentence for insulting judges on Twitter
Dominic Yobbi
March 7, 2016 01:19:26 pm

Kuwait's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the four-year jail sentence against an activist found guilty of insulting judges on Twitter. Ahmad Fadhel was convicted for writing comments considered offensive to a number of judges in Kuwait. Three...

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Iran billionaire sentenced to death in fraud case
Dominic Yobbi
March 6, 2016 04:18:12 pm

Iran billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani was sentenced to death on Sunday after being found guilty on charges of fraud involving an oil fund, a judicial official stated. Zanjani, a 42-year-old oil tycoon who currently is one of Iran's richest...

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News UN Secretary General calls to end plight of Sahrawi refugees
UN Secretary General calls to end plight of Sahrawi refugees
Dominic Yobbi
March 6, 2016 03:36:40 pm

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Saturday called on the parties involved in the Western Sahara conflict to end the "unacceptable" plight of Sahrawi refugees in Algeria. After meeting with refugees and...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on sex offender registration, false representation
Supreme Court hears arguments on sex offender registration, false representation
Dominic Yobbi
March 2, 2016 09:22:41 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. In Nichols v. United States the court heard arguments on whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)...

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News Supreme Court rules against Vermont health care law
Supreme Court rules against Vermont health care law
Dominic Yobbi
March 2, 2016 08:55:54 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company against a 2005 Vermont health care law that required health insurance providers to release data regarding the amount paid on...

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Louisiana abortion clinics ask Supreme Court to block law
Dominic Yobbi
February 28, 2016 09:52:54 pm

Louisiana abortion clinics and doctors on Friday filed a new application with the US Supreme Court attempting to block a 2014 state law that would require three of the four remaining abortion clinics in the...

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Sandra Day O'Connor confirmed as first female US Supreme Court justice

On September 21, 1981, the US Senate approved the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to the US Supreme Court by a vote of 99-0, making her the first female Supreme Court justice. Learn more about Justice O'Connor from Oyez.

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On September 21, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos signed Proclamation 1081, implementing martial law in the Philippines. Marcos used the proclamation not only to suppress a communist insurgency but to eliminate political opponents as well. He remained in power until he was forced from office and into exile by the People Power Revolution in 1986.

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