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News Google being investigated by South Korea for antitrust claim
Google being investigated by South Korea for antitrust claim
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 11:33:05 am

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) , South Korea's antitrust regulator, confirmed on Friday that the country is investigating whether Google violated the country's antitrust laws. The KFTC's statement comes as a surprise as a...

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News UN rights office: Australia must address offshore detention on Nauru
UN rights office: Australia must address offshore detention on Nauru
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 10:45:50 am

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reiterated previous calls to Australia Friday to end offshore detention on Nauru. The press release notes various reports of violence, sexual assault,...

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News Amnesty: Syria chlorine gas attack could be war crime
Amnesty: Syria chlorine gas attack could be war crime
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 09:36:14 am

Amnesty International said Thursday that a suspected chlorine gas attack in Aleppo could amount to a war crime . The BBC reported Thursday that the Syrian government is suspected of using a chlorine gas attack in Aleppo,...

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News Second Amendment group challenging stun gun ban
Second Amendment group challenging stun gun ban
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 08:55:08 am

The New Jersey Second Amendment Society filed a lawsuit on behalf of a New Jersey man, Mark Cheesman, against the state's Attorney General in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey...

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News South Carolina students challenge disrupting school law
South Carolina students challenge disrupting school law
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 07:40:14 am

Four South Carolina students and a non-profit filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina Thursday challenging the state's "Disturbing Schools Law" . The plaintiffs are challenging the law,...

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DEA maintains marijuana’s dangerous drug status
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 12:01:37 pm

The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) denied requests Thursday to remove marijuana's classification as a dangerous drug. The DEA denied two separate requests by former state governors to re-classify marijuana as a Schedule II drug or...

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UN rights chief: Bulgaria arresting migrants cause for concern
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 11:21:37 am

In a statement released on Thursday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein expressed concern over Bulgaria's criminalization of migrants leaving and entering the country. Zeid stated Bulgaria's practice of arresting migrants...

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UN rights chief: Ethiopia must allow observers after deadly shooting
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 10:46:47 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called upon Ethiopia Wednesday to allow international visitors into the region where 90 protesters were shot and killed by security forces this past weekend. Saying the excessive use...

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News Swiss court says Israel must pay Iran in oil dispute
Swiss court says Israel must pay Iran in oil dispute
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 09:55:28 am

The Swiss Federal Tribunal on Thursday rejected an appeal by Israel, ordering Iran to be paid approximately USD $1.1 billion in a decades-old dispute over the Eliat-Ashkelon Pipeline. Switzerland's highest court rejected Israel's appeal for lack of...

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DOJ: Baltimore Police Department engages in discriminatory practices
Mark Casper
August 11, 2016 10:22:43 am

The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has engaged in tactics that violate the First and Fourth Amendments and numerous anti-discrimination laws, according to a report released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed

On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime. 175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the US Psychotropic Substances Act, the UK Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Former Nixon AG Mitchell sentenced to prison for Watergate

On February 21, 1975, former US Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison terms of 2 1/2 to 8 years for obstructing justice in the Watergate affair.

Learn more about John Mitchell from the Washington Post.

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