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News Chicago group files challenge to Illinois public school funding system
Chicago group files challenge to Illinois public school funding system
Kiely Lewandowski
August 21, 2008 09:34:00 am

The Chicago Urban League (CUL) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit insisting that Illinois' current school funding scheme be declared unconstitutional in violation of the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003 . CUL challenges the state's...

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News Energy company sentenced for violating US ocean dumping laws
Energy company sentenced for violating US ocean dumping laws
Kiely Lewandowski
August 14, 2008 08:50:00 am

Energy company Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals (KMBT) was sentenced Wednesday for its improper disposal of potash (potassium chloride) in violation of the Ocean Dumping Act . In 2003, a KMBT employee dumped 160 metric tons of potash...

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News Second Circuit rules publisher to retain rights to Steinbeck novels
Second Circuit rules publisher to retain rights to Steinbeck novels
Kiely Lewandowski
August 14, 2008 07:12:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held Wednesday that publisher Penguin Group will retain the right to publish ten John Steinbeck novels. The heirs involved in this copyright...

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News Ninth Circuit orders district court to accept guilty pleas of illegal immigrants
Ninth Circuit orders district court to accept guilty pleas of illegal immigrants
Kiely Lewandowski
August 7, 2008 08:56:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit  on Wednesday ordered  a district court to accept guilty pleas entered by three illegal aliens facing immigration charges. The defendants had entered unconditional guilty pleas to charges that they...

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News India high court restores ban on Muslim student group
India high court restores ban on Muslim student group
Kiely Lewandowski
August 7, 2008 08:17:00 am

 The Supreme Court of India temporarily reinstated a government ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) on Wednesday, reversing the holding of the Delhi High Court , which had just lifted the ban on...

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News Federal court holds REAL ID Act changes judicial review for criminal aliens
Federal court holds REAL ID Act changes judicial review for criminal aliens
Kiely Lewandowski
July 24, 2008 08:29:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday held that the REAL ID Act of 2005 (RIDA) gives a "reasonable opportunity" for judicial review to those aliens whose removal orders...

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News Federal court rules part of Florida Pledge of Allegiance law unconstitutional
Federal court rules part of Florida Pledge of Allegiance law unconstitutional
Kiely Lewandowski
July 24, 2008 07:40:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday upheld part of a Florida law that requires students in grades kindergarten through 12 to obtain parental permission before they can be excused from...

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News Federal judge refuses to delay Hamdan trial
Federal judge refuses to delay Hamdan trial
Kiely Lewandowski
July 18, 2008 12:19:00 pm

A US district court judge on Thursday rejected a bid to stay the trial of Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan , ruling that a civilian court should refrain from review until the...

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News Texas governor: state not bound by ICJ ruling on execution of Mexican citizens
Texas governor: state not bound by ICJ ruling on execution of Mexican citizens
Kiely Lewandowski
July 18, 2008 08:32:00 am

Texas Governor Rick Perry said Thursday that Texas will go forward with the August 5 execution of a Mexican national despite an International Court of Justice (ICJ) order staying the execution [order and press release,...

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News Federal appeals court orders hearing on death row inmate mental retardation claim
Federal appeals court orders hearing on death row inmate mental retardation claim
Kiely Lewandowski
July 10, 2008 07:43:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday ordered a federal court to hold an evidentiary hearing to consider whether a man sentenced to death for murder might be mentally retarded. After Michael Wayne...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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