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News Guatemala court withdraws foreign ministry warning against UN official
Guatemala court withdraws foreign ministry warning against UN official
Erik Slobe
October 20, 2017 04:35:48 pm

The Guatemalan Constitutional Court on Wednesday withdrew the foreign ministry's warning to the head of the UN International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) , Iván Velásquez. The...

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News Brazil congressional committee rejects corruption charges against Temer
Brazil congressional committee rejects corruption charges against Temer
Erik Slobe
October 20, 2017 10:41:59 am

A Brazilian congressional committee voted Wednesday to reject corruption charges against President Michel Temer. The charges are related to a corruption case against meatpacking company JBS . The charges...

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News Germany top court rejects petition seeking to halt European Central Bank’s bond-buying program
Germany top court rejects petition seeking to halt European Central Bank’s bond-buying program
Erik Slobe
October 19, 2017 07:35:40 am

Germany's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a petition to block the Bundesbank from participating in the European Central Bank plan to purchase bonds. The European Central Bank is currently purchasing 2.3...

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News President Trump delegates Iran sanction powers to the Secretaries of the State, Treasury, and Homeland Security
President Trump delegates Iran sanction powers to the Secretaries of the State, Treasury, and Homeland Security
Erik Slobe
October 13, 2017 11:43:32 am

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum delegating many of the President's powers to sanction Iran granted by the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 to the Secretary of State, Secretary...

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News India Supreme Court rules sex with minor bride is rape
India Supreme Court rules sex with minor bride is rape
Erik Slobe
October 11, 2017 05:12:58 pm

The Supreme Court of India ruled Wednesday that sexual intercourse with a girl who is under the age of 18 is rape regardless of the marital status of the girl. Section 375 of the India Penal...

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News Supreme Court hears oral arguments on jurisdictional nature of statute of limitation rule
Supreme Court hears oral arguments on jurisdictional nature of statute of limitation rule
Erik Slobe
October 11, 2017 03:26:20 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago . The case revolves around whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5)(C) is a jurisdictional rule or a...

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News Pennsylvania AG files lawsuit against Navient over student loan practices
Pennsylvania AG files lawsuit against Navient over student loan practices
Erik Slobe
October 6, 2017 09:00:16 am

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against Navient Corporation over unlawful student loan origination and servicing practices. The lawsuit alleges that Navient violated Pennsylvania's Unfair...

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News Pennsylvania AG, Senator call on FCC to help stop unlawful robocalls
Pennsylvania AG, Senator call on FCC to help stop unlawful robocalls
Erik Slobe
October 6, 2017 08:26:06 am

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Senator Bob Casey sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wednesday requesting that the FCC implement rules to target and eliminate unlawful robocalls. The FCC has previously...

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News Supreme Court hears oral arguments related to qualified immunity, rights waived by guilty plea
Supreme Court hears oral arguments related to qualified immunity, rights waived by guilty plea
Erik Slobe
October 4, 2017 02:26:42 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two cases Wednesday. In District of Columbia v. Wesby , police arrested trespassers in a vacant house. The trespassers stated that they were invited by someone else...

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ACLU files lawsuit against FDA over restrictions on abortion pill
Erik Slobe
October 4, 2017 11:31:51 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii Tuesday against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) related to regulations for the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi SS and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps. Read a biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted anti-Vietnam War bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution. Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts.

Trial of Marquess of Queensberry begins, leading to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde

On April 2, 1895, the libel trial of the Marquess of Queensberry began on allegations that he called Oscar Wilde a "posing somdomite [sic]". The trial led to the disclosure of details of Wilde's personal life that eventually resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality. Read about the trials of Oscar Wilde.

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