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News Libya airplane bombing compensation ruling [US DC]
Libya airplane bombing compensation ruling [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 16, 2008 09:04:00 pm

Robert L. Pugh et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, United Ststes District Court for the District of Columbia, January 15, 2008 [ruling that the Libyan government and six Libyan officials should pay more than $6 billion in damages...

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News NY trial judge selection process ruling [US SC]
NY trial judge selection process ruling [US SC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 16, 2008 09:01:00 pm

New York State Board of elections et al. v. Lopez Torres et al., US Supreme Court, January 16, 2008 . Read the full...

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News Ex-congressman terrorism funding indictment [US DOJ]
Ex-congressman terrorism funding indictment [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 16, 2008 08:25:00 pm

US v. Islamic American Relief Agency et al., United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, January 16, 2008 [indicting Mark Deli Siljander, a former Republican US congressman from Michigan and US representative to the United Nations, for...

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News Securities fraud ruling [US SC]
Securities fraud ruling [US SC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 15, 2008 09:44:00 pm

Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific Atlanta et al., US Supreme Court, January 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the...

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News US pandemic plans and civil liberties report [ACLU]
US pandemic plans and civil liberties report [ACLU]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 14, 2008 08:52:00 pm

Pandemic Preparedness: The Need for a Public Health - Not a Law Enforcement/National Security - Approach, American Civil Liberties Union, January 14, 2008 . Read the full...

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News NASA contract employees background checks ruling [9th Circuit]
NASA contract employees background checks ruling [9th Circuit]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 12, 2008 06:02:00 pm

Robert M. Nelson et al. v. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 11, 2008 [ruling that NASA cannot compel low-risk contract employees working at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory to undergo...

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News Ex-Guantanamo detainees torture lawsuit ruling [DC Circuit]
Ex-Guantanamo detainees torture lawsuit ruling [DC Circuit]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 11, 2008 05:05:00 pm

Shafiq Rasul et al. v. Richard Myers, Air Force General et al., January 11, 2008 [ruling that four former Guantanamo Bay detainees - all UK citizens - do not have the right to sue high-ranking US government officials for alleged...

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News REAL ID Act regulations [US DHS]
REAL ID Act regulations [US DHS]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 11, 2008 04:09:00 pm

REAL ID Final Rule, US Department of Homeland Security, January 11, 2008 . Read the full text of the final rule. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

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News No Child Left Behind lawsuit ruling [6th Circuit]
No Child Left Behind lawsuit ruling [6th Circuit]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 7, 2008 08:02:00 pm

School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Secretary of the United States Department of Education, January 7, 2008 [ruling that a 2005 lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) should not have been dismissed by...

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News Padilla 'torture memos' lawsuit against John Yoo [US DC]
Padilla 'torture memos' lawsuit against John Yoo [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 4, 2008 03:42:00 pm

Jose Padilla et al. v. John Yoo, United States District Court, Northern District of California, January 4, 2008 [lawsuit against law professor and former DOJ official John Yoo seeking to hold him accountable for suffering allegedly caused by his "Torture...

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Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board

On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court held in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racially segregated public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Pay a virtual visit to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site.

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