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News Supreme Court declines to hear tobacco class action suit
Supreme Court declines to hear tobacco class action suit
Maureen Cosgrove
June 28, 2011 10:17:12 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Philip Morris v. Jackson , declining to determine whether a state court erred in certifying a class of smokers...

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News Federal judge blocks Georgia immigration law
Federal judge blocks Georgia immigration law
Maureen Cosgrove
June 28, 2011 09:00:22 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Monday blocked two sections of the state's controversial immigration bill that was signed into law last month [JURIST...

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News Supreme Court rules sex offender registration suit moot
Supreme Court rules sex offender registration suit moot
Maureen Cosgrove
June 27, 2011 03:50:08 pm

The US Supreme Court , ruled Monday in a per curiam opinion in US v. Juvenile Male that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had no authority to rule that the requirements of...

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News China rights activist released from prison after 3 years
China rights activist released from prison after 3 years
Maureen Cosgrove
June 27, 2011 01:57:50 pm

Prominent Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia was released from prison on Sunday after serving three years for a subversion conviction. Hu was formally charged in February 2008 and subsequently sentenced to more than...

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News Ivory Coast authorities charge 15 Gbagbo subordinates with gang, economic crimes
Ivory Coast authorities charge 15 Gbagbo subordinates with gang, economic crimes
Maureen Cosgrove
June 27, 2011 01:21:47 pm

Fifteen associates of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo were charged on Sunday with crimes allegedly committed as a result of the country's post-election violence that has been ongoing since last November....

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News Supreme Court rules foreign subsidiary not subject to personal jurisdiction
Supreme Court rules foreign subsidiary not subject to personal jurisdiction
Maureen Cosgrove
June 27, 2011 10:40:27 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Goodyear v. Brown that foreign subsidiaries of the American corporation Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company are...

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Tunisia court upholds conviction of nephew of ex-president Ben Ali
Maureen Cosgrove
June 27, 2011 09:47:15 am

A Tunisian appeals court on Saturday upheld the conviction of Imed Trabelsi, businessman and nephew of ousted former president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali . The 14th Criminal Chamber of the Tunis Court of Appeal...

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News Cambodia genocide tribunal begins trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders
Cambodia genocide tribunal begins trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders
Maureen Cosgrove
June 27, 2011 08:50:47 am

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday began the initial hearings in the trial of four former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime [JURIST news archive;...

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UN applauds arrest of Guatemala genocide suspect
Maureen Cosgrove
June 24, 2011 02:47:37 pm

The UN on Friday announced its approval of the arrest of a former top Guatemalan military figure accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes, former chief of staff of Guatemalan...

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UN investigators to asses Yemen human rights situation
Maureen Cosgrove
June 24, 2011 01:47:25 pm

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday announced that it plans to send a panel to investigate the human rights situation in Yemen . Three OHCHR experts will travel...

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Nuremberg war crimes trials began

On October 18, 1945, the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals began. Read US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's opening statement.

Women declared "Persons" in Canada

On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had held in Edwards v. Canada that women were not considered "persons" under Canada's governing law, the British North America Act. The Privy Council overturned this ruling, declaring "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'persons' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?"

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