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News ECJ rules France ban on genetically modified maize illegal
ECJ rules France ban on genetically modified maize illegal
Sarah Posner
September 9, 2011 09:57:38 am

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that France's ban on the cultivation of a genetically modified (GM) maize was illegal. Although France has the right to impose a ban on...

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News UK to allow cameras in criminal courts
UK to allow cameras in criminal courts
Sarah Posner
September 6, 2011 02:48:05 pm

UK Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke announced Tuesday that cameras will be allowed into criminal courts in the UK and Wales to improve transparency in courts. Two acts of Parliament in place since 1925 have banned...

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News Ukraine threatens international arbitration over Russia oil dispute
Ukraine threatens international arbitration over Russia oil dispute
Sarah Posner
September 6, 2011 01:54:25 pm

Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday threatened to take Russia to international arbitration over gas disputes. Ukraine relies heavily on Russian oil imports , and its territory provides transit for 80 percent of Russia's oil supplies...

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News Libya interim leaders pledge adherence to rule of law
Libya interim leaders pledge adherence to rule of law
Sarah Posner
September 2, 2011 12:34:07 pm

Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) assured world leaders on Friday that Libya will be a society of tolerance and respect for the rule of law. During a meeting in Paris chaired by French President Nicolas...

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News Sri Lanka to continue detaining terror suspects despite lifting emergency laws
Sri Lanka to continue detaining terror suspects despite lifting emergency laws
Sarah Posner
September 2, 2011 11:51:26 am

Sri Lanka will continue to outlaw the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and detain terror suspects indefinitely despite lifting emergency laws, officials announced Thursday. The laws restricting civil and political rights for the past 30...

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News Vietnam president releases 10,000 prisoners for National Day
Vietnam president releases 10,000 prisoners for National Day
Sarah Posner
August 30, 2011 02:39:57 pm

The president of Vietnam on Monday ordered the release of more than 10,000 prisoners, granting amnesty to commemorate the country's National Day. Although none of the high profile government dissidents was released, the president freed five individuals ...

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Cambodia genocide tribunal begins fitness hearing
Sarah Posner
August 30, 2011 01:39:01 pm

The UN's Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday began conducting its fitness hearing to prosecute individuals for mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge...

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News Bangladesh prosecutors charge Islamic leader with war crimes
Bangladesh prosecutors charge Islamic leader with war crimes
Sarah Posner
July 13, 2011 09:10:09 am

Bangladesh prosecutors on Tuesday filed war crime charges in the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) against Delwar Hossain Sayedee for genocide, murder and rape allegedly committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . Sayedee is a...

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News JPMorgan reaches $153.6 million settlement with SEC
JPMorgan reaches $153.6 million settlement with SEC
Sarah Posner
June 22, 2011 08:14:55 am

JPMorgan Chase & Co reached a $153.6 million settlement Tuesday for fraud charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commissionn(SEC) for allegedly misleading investors during the housing crisis. A settlement...

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Federal judge approves settlement in 15-year American Indian trust suit
Sarah Posner
June 22, 2011 07:19:25 am

Judge Thomas Hogan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday approved a $3.4 billion settlement in the American Indian trust class-action lawsuit. The suit has been...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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