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News Missouri reporter sues over exclusion from being an execution witness
Missouri reporter sues over exclusion from being an execution witness
Justin Cosgrove
September 2, 2016 09:56:30 am

A reporter sued Missouri's prisons chief in federal court on Wednesday for excluding him from being an execution witness. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the lawsuit on behalf of Christopher McDaniel , a reporter...

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News Pakistan asks UK to take action against former party leader
Pakistan asks UK to take action against former party leader
Justin Cosgrove
August 31, 2016 03:32:01 pm

Pakistan's Interior Ministry said Wednesday that the country has requested that Britain take action against a former party leader who delivered a speech last week that ignited rioting in Karachi. Pakistan's Interior Ministry sent a report on Altaf...

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News Federal judge throws out inmate’s lawsuit over violation of religious rights
Federal judge throws out inmate’s lawsuit over violation of religious rights
Justin Cosgrove
August 31, 2016 02:58:19 pm

A federal judge in Kansas dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday by a convicted killer who accused a county jail and its administrators of violating his religious rights. Inmate Eddie Gordon Sr. stated in 2014 in his handwritten lawsuit...

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News Amnesty: Iran is denying adequate medical care to political prisoners
Amnesty: Iran is denying adequate medical care to political prisoners
Justin Cosgrove
July 19, 2016 11:00:38 am

Amnesty International (AI) published a new report on Monday claiming that Iranian authorities have been denying adequate medical coverage to political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. AI claims that Iran is putting these prisoners at grave...

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Turkish President announces support of reinstated death penalty
Justin Cosgrove
July 19, 2016 08:48:45 am

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated Monday that he would approve reinstating the death penalty so long as the measure had sufficient support in the Grand National Assembly . The death penalty was...

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HRW: Turkey preventing independent investigation into mass abuses against civilians
Justin Cosgrove
July 12, 2016 10:06:11 am

The Turkish government is blocking access for independent investigations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Monday. HRW claims that the Turkish government is abusing civilians on a massive scale and attempting to cover it...

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Lawsuit filed against Facebook for facilitating terrorist attacks
Justin Cosgrove
July 12, 2016 09:42:09 am

A group of Israeli and American citizens filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday seeking $1 billion in damages from Facebook for allegedly facilitating...

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UK lawyers to challenge EU referendum
Justin Cosgrove
July 6, 2016 11:06:02 am

Britain's leading public-interest law firm as well as several experience litigators are drafting a legal challenge to the EU referendum . The hope is to stop Britain's exit from the EU, or, at the very least, create a parliamentary...

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News FBI will not recommend Hillary Clinton be charged in e-mail scandal
FBI will not recommend Hillary Clinton be charged in e-mail scandal
Justin Cosgrove
July 6, 2016 10:04:21 am

FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that he is not recommending that the Department of Justice bring criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Comey stated that while Clinton was...

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June 29, 2016 09:08:00 am

Volkswagen AG has agreed to spend up to $14.7 billion to settle allegations of cheating emissions tests and deceiving customers in a settlement with US regulators announced Tuesday. The company will either to buy back...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Congress approves first Patent Act

On April 10, 1790, Congress approved the US's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the US Patent Board, the precursor to the modern US Patent Office. Read the current US Patent Law from the Cornell University Law School.

Hugo Grotius born

Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, statesman and father of international law was born in Delft, Holland, on April 10, 1583. His best-known work is De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), which he published in 1625.

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