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News Austria court convicts three neo-Nazis for glorifying Nazism
Austria court convicts three neo-Nazis for glorifying Nazism
Sarah Posner
January 11, 2013 09:26:42 am

An Austrian court convicted three neo-Nazis on Thursday of glorifying Nazism over the Internet, sentencing them to as many as nine years in prison. Neo-Nazi leader Gottfried Kuessel was sentenced to nine years in prison for creating...

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News Bangladesh war crimes tribunal rejects retrial plea by Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Bangladesh war crimes tribunal rejects retrial plea by Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Sarah Posner
January 7, 2013 10:38:56 am

The second International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) rejected a plea on Monday from Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla for a re-trial. Justice Obaidul Hassan of the ICTB rejected ...

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News Sri Lanka appeals court orders parliament to drop impeachment proceedings
Sri Lanka appeals court orders parliament to drop impeachment proceedings
Sarah Posner
January 7, 2013 09:51:02 am

The Court of Appeals of Sri Lanka on Monday ordered parliament to drop the impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, quashing a guilty verdict against her. This decision further fuels the dispute between the...

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News More than 20 killed in Syria; UN renews call for peace initiative
More than 20 killed in Syria; UN renews call for peace initiative
Sarah Posner
December 27, 2012 10:28:26 am

More than 20 civilians, including eight children, were killed in Syria's northern province of al-Raqqa, according to a video posted Wednesday by activists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported ...

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News Supreme Court Justice denies injunction against contraceptive coverage mandate
Supreme Court Justice denies injunction against contraceptive coverage mandate
Sarah Posner
December 27, 2012 09:28:27 am

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied Hobby Lobby, Inc.'s application for injunction which would have prevented enforcement of the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text;...

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Former justice minister in Georgia to be formally charged
Sarah Posner
December 25, 2012 02:11:53 pm

Georgian Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili announced Tuesday that the former justice minister in Georgia, Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili, is set to be charged on December 26 in connection with the torture of prisoners in the country's capital of Tbilisi....

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UN votes to negotiate international arms treaty
Sarah Posner
December 25, 2012 01:36:27 pm

The UN General Assembly voted Monday to re-enter negotiations over an international treaty for the global sale of arms, a 70 billion dollar industry. The General Assembly adopted an arms treaty with 133 votes in...

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Venezuela will not hold a new election despite Chavez critical health
Sarah Posner
December 24, 2012 10:48:18 am

Venezuelan official stated on Saturday that the country will not be holding a new election, even if President Hugo Chavez is unable to take office on January 10 because of his cancer. Although there...

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NRA CEO dismisses renewal of ban on assault weapons
Sarah Posner
December 24, 2012 09:57:18 am

The National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre dismissed calls for a renewed ban on assault weapons on Sunday. LaPierre said that an assault weapons ban was a "phony piece of legislation" . After...

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Italy court overturns conviction of Google executives for privacy violation
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December 23, 2012 10:32:54 am

An Italian appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of three Google executives for violating Italian privacy laws by posting a video on Google of a handicapped child being bullied. Google was "delighted" to see...

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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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