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News Volkswagen reaches settlement with US authorities in emissions scandal
Volkswagen reaches settlement with US authorities in emissions scandal
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 21, 2016 01:05:45 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday that German automaker Volkswagen AG (VW) has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,...

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News Obama nominates Judge Merrick Garland to US Supreme Court
Obama nominates Judge Merrick Garland to US Supreme Court
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 16, 2016 11:15:38 am

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the...

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News Poland constitutional court strikes down legal reforms
Poland constitutional court strikes down legal reforms
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 10, 2016 03:03:52 pm

Poland's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that controversial government reforms to the court violate the constitution . The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) pushed the...

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News Apple to pay $450 million after Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in e-book case
Apple to pay $450 million after Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in e-book case
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 8, 2016 06:04:11 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a lower court ruling finding Apple conspired with book publishers to increase e-book prices. Monday's order, issued without comment, means that Apple is now responsible...

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News Florida governor signs death penalty reforms into law
Florida governor signs death penalty reforms into law
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 8, 2016 01:02:28 pm

Florida Governor Rick Scott on Monday signed into law a bill revamping the state's death penalty law. The changes are in response to the US Supreme Court ruling in January that the state's previous sentencing...

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News Supreme Court reverses Alabama ruling blocking same-sex adoption
Supreme Court reverses Alabama ruling blocking same-sex adoption
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 7, 2016 10:35:59 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday reversed an Alabama Supreme Court decision that refused to recognize an out-of-state adoption by a same-sex partner. Petitioner, VL, had legally adopted the biological children of her partner, EL, while...

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News US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
February 13, 2016 06:51:15 pm

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died Saturday at the age 79. Friends reported that he died in his sleep during a trip to Texas. Chief Justice John Roberts issued the following statement:On behalf...

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News Colombia president signs decree legalizing medical marijuana
Colombia president signs decree legalizing medical marijuana
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 23, 2015 10:54:49 am

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday signed a decree fully legalizing medical marijuana in the country. Santos said the new regulations, which make it legal to grow, process, import and export marijuana for medical and...

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News New York agrees to settlement on solitary confinement
New York agrees to settlement on solitary confinement
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 16, 2015 03:16:08 pm

New York officials on Wednesday announced a settlement agreement under which the state will overhaul its solitary confinement practices and procedures. The $62 million settlement comes in a lawsuit filed in 2012 by the New York Civil Liberties Union...

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News Burkina Faso high court announces Kabore as winner of presidential election
Burkina Faso high court announces Kabore as winner of presidential election
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 15, 2015 04:50:14 pm

Burkina Faso's highest court on Tuesday announced results from last month's elections, declaring Roch Marc Christian Kabore winner of the presidency. Kabore won with 53 percent of the vote , confirming provisional results released shortly after the November 29...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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