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News Supreme Court declines to hear US-Mexico border fence, ‘Cuban Five’ appeals
Supreme Court declines to hear US-Mexico border fence, ‘Cuban Five’ appeals
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 15, 2009 02:10:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a challenge to the construction of a fence along the US-Mexico border . The Court denied certiorari in County of...

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News Supreme Court finds Alaska shipping tax unconstitutional
Supreme Court finds Alaska shipping tax unconstitutional
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 15, 2009 10:10:00 am

The US Supreme Court issued opinions in two cases Monday. The Court ruled 7-2 in Polar Tankers v. City of Valdez that a municipal tax that falls...

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News Yemen denies plans to transfer Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia
Yemen denies plans to transfer Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 15, 2009 09:01:00 am

The government of Yemen denied Sunday that it had reached an agreement with the US to transfer nearly 100 Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation. According to a statement from the Yemen Ministry...

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News Greece judges order officers to stand trial for killing that sparked protests
Greece judges order officers to stand trial for killing that sparked protests
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 12, 2009 02:23:00 pm

A Greek council of judges in Athens on Friday ordered two police officers to stand trial for the murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos that sparked violent protests in December. Officer Epameinonta Korkonea, who is accused of shooting...

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News Bermuda decision to take Uighurs beyond territorial powers: UK
Bermuda decision to take Uighurs beyond territorial powers: UK
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 12, 2009 11:23:00 am

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on Thursday criticized Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown for failing to consult with London before agreeing to accept four Uighur Guantanamo detainees . Bermuda is a UK territory,...

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News Four Uighur Guantanamo detainees transferred to Bermuda
Four Uighur Guantanamo detainees transferred to Bermuda
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 11, 2009 11:25:00 am

Four Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility have been released from US custody Thursday and transferred to Bermuda . The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that the four detainees...

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News Palau offer to accept Uighur detainees not motivated by Chinese reaction: report
Palau offer to accept Uighur detainees not motivated by Chinese reaction: report
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 11, 2009 10:19:00 am

Palau President Johnson Toribiong told the Associated Press Thursday that his offer to accept 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay was motivated by human rights concerns and not by the Chinese...

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News Europe court finds Turkish government responsible for domestic violence killing
Europe court finds Turkish government responsible for domestic violence killing
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 11, 2009 08:13:00 am

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Wednesday that the Turkish government is responsible for the death of a woman at the hands of her ex-husband. The court found that in failing...

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News Russia judge killed by gunmen in Ingushetia province
Russia judge killed by gunmen in Ingushetia province
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 10, 2009 02:51:00 pm

Aza Gazgireyeva, deputy head of the Supreme Court in Russia's Ingushetia province was shot dead Wednesday while taking her children to school in the town of Nazran, according to a regional interior ministry...

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News Palau offers to accept Uighur Guantanamo detainees
Palau offers to accept Uighur Guantanamo detainees
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
June 10, 2009 01:27:00 pm

Palau President Johnson Toribiong has said that his country is willing to accept 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay , according to a statement provided to the Associated Press Wednesday. A senior US official...

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President Carter authorizes Chrysler bailout

On January 7, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-185) into law. The act granted to Chrysler $1.5 billion to save the company from bankruptcy. Twenty-eight years later in 2008, President George W. Bush authorized $17.4 billion to again bailout Chrysler in addition to the other two major American automobile manufacturers, Ford and General Motors.

Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified

On January 7, 1922, Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Signed on December 6 of the preceding year, the treaty ended the Irish War of Independence against Great Britain. The British Parliament voted to approve the treaty on December 16, 1921. Ratification was completed on January 14, 1922, when the House of Commons of Southern Ireland became the third and final party to approve the document. The Anglo-Irish treaty effectively split the island into its current state. While the lower counties of Ireland were granted autonomy under the treaty, Britain insisted that the six Protestant counties of Northern Ireland be allowed to determine their own future. On the day after the treaty was signed, these counties elected to remain part of Great Britain. Today, they remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

New York State Assembly expels five socialist assemblymen

The New York State Assembly, the state's lower house, expelled five duly elected assemblymen from the Socialist Party over their political affiliation on January 7, 1920. The US was in the midst of the first Red Scare, a panic resulting from the ascendancy of the Bolsheviks in Russia, which resulted in the repression of socialists across the country. The result of the expulsion vote was 140-6. Thus, Assemblymen August Claessens, Samuel A. DeWitt, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon and Louis Waldman were removed from their posts. Learn more about the expulsions from the Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York.

Rehnquist sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

On January 7, 1972, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Read a short profile of Chief Justice Rehnquist here.

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