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News Ontario appeals court: reporter must turn over communications with accused terrorist
Ontario appeals court: reporter must turn over communications with accused terrorist
Taylor Isaac
March 23, 2017 03:52:27 pm

The Court of Appeal for Ontario on Wednesday affirmed a ruling requiring a Vice Media reporter to turn over materials and communications used to write three stories regarding an accused terrorist in 2014. Ben Makuch...

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News ExxonMobil ordered to cooperate with subpoena in climate change investigation
ExxonMobil ordered to cooperate with subpoena in climate change investigation
Taylor Isaac
March 23, 2017 01:52:29 pm

A New York judge on Wednesday ordered ExxonMobil to cooperate with a New York investigation into whether the company misled others about the effects of climate change. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had issued previous...

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News Federal appeals court denies rehearing of Trump’s original immigration order
Federal appeals court denies rehearing of Trump’s original immigration order
Taylor Isaac
March 16, 2017 12:19:19 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday denied an en banc rehearing regarding US President Donald Trump's original immigration order. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) had previously...

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News Thousands gather in Belarus to protest labor law
Thousands gather in Belarus to protest labor law
Taylor Isaac
March 16, 2017 11:32:09 am

Thousands of people in Belarus on Wednesday gathered to protest a labor law that fines people if they do not work enough days during the year. President Alexander Lukashenko enacted Ordinance No. 3 ...

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News Supreme Court clarifies correct standard for recusal of judge
Supreme Court clarifies correct standard for recusal of judge
Taylor Isaac
March 7, 2017 07:06:18 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday reversed a case due to the lower courts' analysis that focused on the presence of actual bias as opposed to an objective probability of actual bias. In Rippo v. Baker...

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Supreme Court rules sentencing guidelines not subject to vagueness challenges
Taylor Isaac
March 7, 2017 06:24:48 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the US Sentencing Guidelines (USSG) are not subject to challenges under the void-for-vagueness doctrine. The focus in Beckles v. United States was on §4B1.2 of the...

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Amnesty: global politics threatening human rights
Taylor Isaac
February 23, 2017 01:24:20 pm

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday released its Annual Report 2016/17 , a summary of an international human rights survey that discusses the role "rhetoric of fear, blame and hate" have played in rolling back human rights around the...

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News Trump administration revokes public school transgender bathroom guidelines
Trump administration revokes public school transgender bathroom guidelines
Taylor Isaac
February 23, 2017 11:59:05 am

The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked the Obama-era guidelines regarding transgender students. The previous guidelines were a joint effort by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) that required federally...

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Tribe files legal challenge to Dakota Access Pipeline
Taylor Isaac
February 9, 2017 04:07:20 pm

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on Thursday filed a legal challenge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in an attempt to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) ....

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Apple files lawsuits against Qualcomm in China
Taylor Isaac
January 26, 2017 12:17:32 pm

Technology giant Apple on Wednesday announced two lawsuits against Qualcomm in Beijing's Intellectual Property Court. The lawsuits , similar to the one filed in a US district court last week, allege a violation...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First US execution by gas

On February 8, 1924, Gee Jon, a Chinese man convicted of murder, was executed by gas in Nevada and became the first person in the United States to be put to death in that manner.

The Nevada state legislature had eliminated hanging and shooting as a method of execution in 1921, and had provided for execution by lethal gas instead. Nevada sent 32 convicts to the gas chamber between 1924 and 1979. Learn more about the history of executions by gas in Nevada.

Mary, Queen of Scots executed

On February 8, 1587, Mary I of Scotland was executed for involvement in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England. Before execution, Mary denied three times assisting the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, and crown Mary as ruler of Great Britain. Mary's guilt or innocence is debated to this day. Learn more about the Babington Plot.

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