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Maldives suspends lawyers calling for rule of law
Jennifer Suder
September 11, 2017 01:30:46 pm

Maldives authorities suspended 56 lawyers on Monday for signing and trying to submit a petition to the Supreme Court calling to uphold the rule of law. The petition cited court violations primarily in cases against opposition politicians. The Department of...

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Hurricane Harvey victims sue federal government
Jennifer Suder
September 7, 2017 06:33:31 am

Property owners in Harris County, Houston filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government on Tuesday for releasing water from the Barker and Addicks reservoirs after Hurricane Harvey, causing flooding in their homes and businesses. The...

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News States file lawsuit over Trump admistration decision to eliminate DACA
States file lawsuit over Trump admistration decision to eliminate DACA
Jennifer Suder
September 6, 2017 03:16:09 pm

A group of 15 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) program. DACA provides protection...

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News Turkish security officials indicted by US grand jury
Turkish security officials indicted by US grand jury
Jennifer Suder
August 31, 2017 07:07:42 am

A US grand jury indicted 19 people , including 15 Turkish security officials, on Tuesday for attacking protesters during a visit to the White House by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in May. The protesters gathered...

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Guatemala top court halts deportation of UN anti-corruption official
Jennifer Suder
August 30, 2017 03:26:30 pm

The Guatemalan Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended President Jimmy Morales' order to deport the head of a UN anti-corruption commission from the country. The order came from the president two days after Ivan Velasquez, the Colombian prosecutor who...

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HRW urges Kenya to investigate human rights violations
Jennifer Suder
August 28, 2017 02:17:12 pm

Since the Kenyan presidential election on August 8, more than 12 people have been killed and more than 100 have been badly injured due to serious human rights violations , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday. Following the announcement...

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Trump lifts ban on providing military equipment to local police
Jennifer Suder
August 28, 2017 01:09:44 pm

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that will lift an Obama-era directive that restricted local police agencies' access to military equipment. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke Monday morning to the...

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Jennifer Suder
June 24, 2017 05:20:20 pm

Amnesty International UK (AI) on Friday called for improved police training and a review of the legal framework as they relate to hate crimes in the UK. In a news briefing tilted "Against Hate: Tackling hate...

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Federal judge issues temporary injunction blocking deportation of Iraq nationals
Jennifer Suder
June 24, 2017 02:15:02 pm

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday temporarily blocked the deportation of over 100 Iraq nationals, arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, for approximately two weeks during which...

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June 11, 2017 11:02:34 am

Brazil's top electoral court, known as the TSE , dismissed a case on Friday against President Michel Temer for alleged illegal campaign funding in the 2014 election when he was the running mate of impeached president Dilma Rousseff. The...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Western Allies approve new Germany constitution

On May 12, 1949, the Western allied powers, the United Kingdom, United States, and France, approved the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) as the legal foundation for the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The document served as the constitution of West Germany during the Cold War and remains the governing law for the unified Germany today. Learn more about the legal framework of the German government from the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany).

Justice Harry A. Blackmun confirmed

On May 12, 1970, the Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Harry A. Blackmun to the United States Supreme Court. Justice Blackmun died in 1999, and was remembered on JURIST by several of his former law clerks. The Harry A. Blackmun Papers were released in 2004 by the Library of Congress.

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