Maria Coladonato, Author at JURIST

Federal judge strikes down Virginia same-sex marriage ban

February 14, 2014 02:08:45 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday struck down Virginia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. In 2006, Virginia voters ratified an amendment (Article I section 15-A) to...

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UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires

On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.

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On January 15, 1929, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University and read King's 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech made at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.