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News Women’s health providers challenge Arizona abortion restrictions
Women’s health providers challenge Arizona abortion restrictions
Daniel Mullen
March 5, 2014 03:08:04 pm

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging an Arizona law limiting the use of abortion-inducing drugs. Bryan Howard, the president of Planned Parenthood,...

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News Supreme Court rules in international arbitration case
Supreme Court rules in international arbitration case
Daniel Mullen
March 5, 2014 02:00:48 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday in BG Group v. Republic of Argentina , an international arbitration case that raises the question of whether, in disputes involving a multi-staged dispute resolution process, a...

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News Jury selection begins in trial of bin Laden son-in-law
Jury selection begins in trial of bin Laden son-in-law
Daniel Mullen
March 3, 2014 03:53:11 pm

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama Bin-Laden , went on trial Monday in New York for his role in the 9/11 attacks. Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New...

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News Vietnam veterans with PTSD file lawsuit in federal court
Vietnam veterans with PTSD file lawsuit in federal court
Daniel Mullen
March 3, 2014 02:45:34 pm

Five veterans of the Vietnam War filed a class action lawsuit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut accusing the military of failing to upgrade the discharges of veterans who developed post-traumatic...

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News Federal judge declares Texas same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
Federal judge declares Texas same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
Daniel Mullen
February 26, 2014 03:18:22 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled Wednesday that Article 1, Section 32 of the Texas constitution, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one...

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Supreme Court allows class action for Stanford Ponzi scheme victims
Daniel Mullen
February 26, 2014 02:19:55 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday in Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice that the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA) does not bar the plaintiffs' state law...

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News US Supreme Court declines to hear gun rights cases
US Supreme Court declines to hear gun rights cases
Daniel Mullen
February 24, 2014 02:36:59 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear rule on three new petitions that address the scope of the Second Amendment of the Constitution. The Supreme Court denied the petitions ,...

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News UNAIDS condemns Uganda anti-gay legislation
UNAIDS condemns Uganda anti-gay legislation
Daniel Mullen
February 19, 2014 01:52:00 pm

UNAIDS , the UN agency tasked with overseeing the global response to HIV/AIDS, on Tuesday condemned Uganda's anti-gay legislation, which President Yoweri Musevni has pledged to sign into law . Though homosexuality has long been...

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News Mexico lawmakers introduce marijuana legalization bill
Mexico lawmakers introduce marijuana legalization bill
Daniel Mullen
February 19, 2014 01:05:45 pm

A group of left-wing Mexican lawmakers from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) introduced a bill on Tuesday to legalize marijuana in an effort to curb cartel violence . Since Mexican President...

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South Korea court sentences opposition member of parliament to 12 years
Daniel Mullen
February 17, 2014 02:31:43 pm

The Suwon District Court in South Korea on Monday sentenced Lee Soek-ki to 12 years in jail for plotting a pro-North Korea rebellion. Lee, a member of the opposition United Progressive Party ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Biological Weapons Convention goes into force

On March 26, 1975, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction went into force. Today, 162 countries have signed the Convention, pledging never "to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain" biological weapons. Some signatory nations, however, have reserved the right to hold certain biological weapons for "prophylactic" purposes. Learn more about the UN Biological Weapons Convention.

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US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas on March 26, 1930.

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