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News UN rights expert concerned over Cambodia legislative session
UN rights expert concerned over Cambodia legislative session
Stephen Adelgren
April 8, 2014 10:54:42 am

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia , Surya Subedi, issued a statement on Monday expressing concern that the Cambodian National Assembly went forward with its second session without the...

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News EU to set up international war crimes tribunal for Serbia war
EU to set up international war crimes tribunal for Serbia war
Stephen Adelgren
April 4, 2014 12:12:16 pm

The Associated Press has discovered plans by the European Union to instate a war crimes tribunal to deal specifically with allegations focusing on offenses committed by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels during the 1998 war with...

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News Mississippi governor signs bill allowing businesses to refuse service for “religious reasons”
Mississippi governor signs bill allowing businesses to refuse service for “religious reasons”
Stephen Adelgren
April 4, 2014 11:16:46 am

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Thursday signed the controversial Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law, which prevents the state from taking any legislative action that would place a "substantial burden" on a person's exercise...

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News Iran human rights lawyer summoned for questioning
Iran human rights lawyer summoned for questioning
Stephen Adelgren
April 1, 2014 01:20:46 pm

Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh , has been summoned by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry according to a post on her husband's Facebook page Tuesday. The summons are thought to be in response to a...

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News Federal judge rules immigrants have same gun carrying rights as citizens
Federal judge rules immigrants have same gun carrying rights as citizens
Stephen Adelgren
April 1, 2014 12:39:21 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of New Mexico ruled Monday that the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause mandates that legally residing immigrants be afforded the same rights to obtain a concealed-carry weapon permit...

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News Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Chinese search engine Baidu
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Chinese search engine Baidu
Stephen Adelgren
March 28, 2014 01:12:32 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by eight New Yorkers claiming that Chinese search engineBaidu's algorithms illegally block political speech....

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News Federal appeals court upholds Texas abortion restrictions
Federal appeals court upholds Texas abortion restrictions
Stephen Adelgren
March 28, 2014 12:08:46 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld Texas abortion restrictions requiring physicians performing "surgical abortions" to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and certain compliance protocols relating to the...

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News Bangladesh authorities move to ban Islamist group
Bangladesh authorities move to ban Islamist group
Stephen Adelgren
March 25, 2014 12:30:19 pm

Bangladeshi investigators on Tuesday moved the government to ban Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) for its alleged involvement in war crimes occurring during the nation's 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War from Pakistan. Government...

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Supreme Court allows Lanham Act claim in copyright infringement case
Stephen Adelgren
March 25, 2014 11:52:25 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a unanimous ruling in Lexmark v. Static Control Components holding that Static did not lack standing to assert a Lanham Act claim in defense of a copyright infringement...

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Taiwan chief prosecutor sentenced to 14 months in prison for information leak
Stephen Adelgren
March 21, 2014 01:01:41 pm

The Taipei District Court on Friday sentenced Taiwanese Prosecutor-general Huang Shih-ming to 14 months in prison for passing confidential information to the country's president regarding investigations into corruption charges. The investigation referred to allegations of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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