Timothy Lyon, Author at JURIST

Law in the Sunday papers ~ Bush and the Supreme Court, US-Canada trade dispute, oil-for-food scandal

November 14, 2004 08:50:00 am

Sunday's New York Times highlights the effect President Bush may have on the US Supreme Court and a trade dispute between the US and Canada over beef exports.Today's Washington Post covers the scandal surrounding the UN's oil-for-food program and...

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Law in the Sunday papers ~ Supreme Court, patient privacy, Guantanamo justice

Timothy Lyon

November 7, 2004 09:22:00 am

Sunday's New York Times highlights the way Chief Justice Rehnquist's illness has affected the state of the US Supreme Court. The Times also covers the first person to be sentenced for violating a new federal law designed to protect...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court ruled corporations due equal protection rights

On May 10, 1886, the US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company that corporations were "persons" within the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore were due rights of equal protection under state law.

Nelson Mandela became first black president of South Africa

On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black President of South Africa. Before becoming President, Mandela was an anti-Apartheid leader in segregated South Africa. He served twenty-seven years in prison before his release in 1990, after which he was elected president of the country. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Read a biography of Nelson Mandela from the Nobel Foundation.