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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
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December 23, 2017 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Ugandan parliament voted on Wednesday to eliminate the presidential age limit of 75 years. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday...

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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 23 December 2017
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December 23, 2017 12:00:03 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. ...

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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 16 December 2017
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December 16, 2017 12:00:06 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on Wednesday called on the US to end impunity for those...

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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 16 December 2017
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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. In the midst of a growing and devastating opioid epidemic, officials in Lorain County, Ohio, filed a lawsuit in the Lorain...

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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 9 December 2017
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December 9, 2017 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The High Court of South Africa ruled Friday that President Jacob Zuma's appointment of a State Prosecutor who would decide whether to reinstate corruption charges...

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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: California's Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its...

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December 2, 2017 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government's proposed plan to allow further economic development...

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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Qualcomm filed three lawsuits against Apple Thursday, seeking compensation for alleged patent infringement. According to Qualcomm, Apple uses technologies that Qualcomm...

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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 25 November 2017
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November 25, 2017 12:00:06 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes...

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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed House No. Speaking in a cabinet meeting on Monday US President Donald Trump announced that the US is re-designating North Korea as...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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