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News Supreme Court rules on exception to whistleblower protection law
Supreme Court rules on exception to whistleblower protection law
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 21, 2015 02:20:56 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean that unless a disclosure is specifically prohibited by law, the code of Prohibited Personnel Practices can bar an agency...

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News Afghanistan security forces arrest 5 for involvement in Pakistan school massacre
Afghanistan security forces arrest 5 for involvement in Pakistan school massacre
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 17, 2015 11:34:01 am

Afghanistan National Security Forces reported the arrest of five men on Saturday believed to have helped support the massacre that took place in December at the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. The attack further strained Afghanistan and Pakistan's...

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News UN SG commemorates Salvadoran peace accords, urges commitment to human rights
UN SG commemorates Salvadoran peace accords, urges commitment to human rights
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 17, 2015 10:25:25 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined El Salvador in a ceremony Friday commemorating the twenty-third anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords . The accords, signed on January 16, 1992, marked the conclusion of...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on Immigration and Nationality Act, bankruptcy court jurisdiction
Supreme Court hears arguments on Immigration and Nationality Act, bankruptcy court jurisdiction
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 14, 2015 05:09:55 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Wednesday. In Mellouli v. Holder the court heard arguments on whether the government should be required to prove a connection between a...

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News Supreme Court rules on appellate procedure for habeas corpus petitions
Supreme Court rules on appellate procedure for habeas corpus petitions
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 14, 2015 03:45:13 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a habeas petitioner who receives a favorable ruling at the district court level does not have to take a cross-appeal or obtain a certificate of appealability to defend...

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News Convening authority throws out conviction of Noor Uthman Mohammed
Convening authority throws out conviction of Noor Uthman Mohammed
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 10, 2015 11:07:11 am

The convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions retired Marine Major General Vaughn A. Ary on Friday overturned the terror conviction against Sudanese national Noor Uthman Muhammed and dismissed the charges against him...

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News Fifth Circuit hears arguments on same-sex marriage bans in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi
Fifth Circuit hears arguments on same-sex marriage bans in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 10, 2015 10:07:55 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on Friday regarding the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Federal courts overturned the same-sex marriage bans in Texas...

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News Saudi Arabia women activists arrested for driving transferred to terrorism tribunal
Saudi Arabia women activists arrested for driving transferred to terrorism tribunal
Julie Deisher-Edwards
December 25, 2014 09:05:58 pm

A court in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia's eastern province, has ordered that the criminal cases against Loujain Hathloul and Maysaa Alamoudi , two women's rights activists, be transferred to a special tribunal for terrorism in Riyadh. The...

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News Death row inmates challenge Ohio execution secrecy law
Death row inmates challenge Ohio execution secrecy law
Julie Deisher-Edwards
December 25, 2014 06:56:14 pm

Four death row inmates filed a complaint on Wednesday challenging Substitute House Bill 663 , a measure providing for the confidentiality of entities involved in the manufacture of drugs for use in capital punishment by lethal injection,...

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News Pakistan court orders co-defendants be added to case against ex-president
Pakistan court orders co-defendants be added to case against ex-president
Julie Deisher-Edwards
November 21, 2014 03:00:12 pm

Pakistan's Federal Shariat Court has ordered that Pakistan's government amend or re-file its complaint against former president Pervez Musharraf for treason to include the former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, law minister Zahid Hamid and...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court ruled Indians not US citizens

On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an American Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all Native Americans born in the US made citizens.

Last public execution at Tyburn Gallows in London

On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin's execution, Tyburn served as London's primary location for public executions.

Learn more about the trial of John Austin.

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