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News JURIST nominated for Webby Award as best law website
JURIST nominated for Webby Award as best law website
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 14, 2009 03:55:00 pm

JURIST was nominated Tuesday for a prestigious Webby Award as the best Law website of 2009. Called the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and...

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News Military jury acquits Marine of all charges in Fallujah detainee killing
Military jury acquits Marine of all charges in Fallujah detainee killing
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 9, 2009 04:06:00 pm

A jury of US Marines acquitted Sgt. Ryan Weemer Thursday of one count of murder and one count of dereliction of duty for his involvement in the shooting death of a detained Iraqi insurgent during a...

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News Peru ex-president Fujimori convicted of rights abuses
Peru ex-president Fujimori convicted of rights abuses
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 7, 2009 10:55:00 am

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was found guilty of committing human rights abuses during his 1990-2000 rule by a special court in Lima Tuesday. Fujimori, who maintained his innocence throughout the proceedings, was convicted...

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News Supreme Court rules delayed voluntary confessions may be suppressed
Supreme Court rules delayed voluntary confessions may be suppressed
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 6, 2009 11:24:00 am

The US Supreme Court issued two opinions Monday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Corley v. United States that federal statutory and case...

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News Supreme Court to consider attorney fee award enhancement
Supreme Court to consider attorney fee award enhancement
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 6, 2009 10:47:00 am

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Perdue v. Kenny A. , in which the Court will consider whether an attorney’s fee award under a federal fee-shifting...

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News Supreme Court decides labor, EPA, clemency cases
Supreme Court decides labor, EPA, clemency cases
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 1, 2009 10:11:00 am

The US Supreme Court issued three opinions Wednesday. The Court ruled 5-4 in 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett that an employee may not bring a statutory...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments in age discrimination in employment case
Supreme Court hears arguments in age discrimination in employment case
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 31, 2009 01:47:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Gross v. FBL Financial Services , in which the Court will decide whether a plaintiff must...

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Supreme Court dismisses Philip Morris appeal of jury verdict
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 31, 2009 10:09:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed as improvidently granted the writ of certiorari in Philip Morris USA v. Williams . The Court had originally granted certiorari to consider for...

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News Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on intervening in original jurisdiction cases
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on intervening in original jurisdiction cases
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 30, 2009 02:20:00 pm

The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear oral arguments in the case of South Carolina v. North Carolina to decide whether additional parties may intervene in a lawsuit between two...

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News Supreme Court rules for state on plea agreement case
Supreme Court rules for state on plea agreement case
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 25, 2009 10:30:00 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday in Puckett v. United States that a defendant's claim that the prosecution breached a plea agreement must be raised at...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First US life insurance company incorporated

On January 11, 1759, America's first life insurance company was incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers was established by Presbyterians to support the families of their ministers. In 1988, the company's name was changed to the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund. The company later became Covenant Life Insurance Company before being acquired by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 2002. Read a history of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund from the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Treaty ended Anglo-American claims, courts in China

On January 11, 1943, the United States and Great Britain relinquished by treaty their extraterritorial claims in China. This abandonment effectively ended the jurisdiction of the extraterritorial United States Court for China (established 1906) and the British Supreme Court in China. Read more about the United States Court for China, which one scholar has called "probably the strangest federal tribunal ever constituted by Congress," in a short online history of the US Ninth Circuit.

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