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News Former AIG head wins bailout suit with zero damages
Former AIG head wins bailout suit with zero damages
Valerie Howell
June 16, 2015 08:53:37 am

The US Court of Federal Claims ruled Monday that the Federal Reserve bailout of AIG in 2008 exceeded its authority but did not award any damages. The suit was brought by...

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Colorado high court upholds employee termination for medical marijuana use
Valerie Howell
June 16, 2015 08:09:24 am

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday unanimously affirmed a lower court decision that employers' zero tolerance drug policies are not pre-empted by Colorado's legalization of medical marijuana. The court held that an employee can legally...

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News Former South Carolina police officer indicted for murder of unarmed black man
Former South Carolina police officer indicted for murder of unarmed black man
Valerie Howell
June 9, 2015 09:49:02 am

A former police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, was indicted by a grand jury on Monday on murder charges brought after the April incident in which the officer shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, who was running...

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UN accuses Eritrea president of human rights abuses
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June 9, 2015 08:29:15 am

The Eritrean government has committed "systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations," according to a report released Monday by a panel of UN investigators. The investigators were denied access to Eritrea but were able to conduct their investigation...

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Hungary court orders retrial of communist-era war crimes convict
Valerie Howell
June 2, 2015 01:23:25 pm

A Hungarian appeals court on Monday ordered the retrial of Bela Biszku , a high-ranking leader of the Hungarian Communist Party, who was convicted for war crimes following the 1956 uprising . The intermediate court found...

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UN report: rights abuses persist in Ukraine
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June 2, 2015 12:18:56 pm

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine released its tenth report on Monday, documenting the serious human rights abuses that persist in eastern Ukraine. The violations include "shelling, executions, arbitrary and illegal detentions,...

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UN rights expert calls on Serbia to ameliorate housing crisis
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May 27, 2015 10:59:38 am

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing called Tuesday on the Serbian government to take immediate action to improve the current housing crisis that has left many Serbian citizens without adequate housing....

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Supreme Court rules in patent infringement case
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May 27, 2015 09:44:36 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Commil USA, LLC., v. Cisco Systems, Inc. that a "good faith" belief of a patent's invalidity is not a defense to a claim of induced patent...

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Supreme Court to hear case concerning class actions
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May 19, 2015 11:22:22 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Campbell Ewald Company v. Gome . The case comes to the Supreme Court on appeal from a Ninth Circuit decision ...

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Egypt court sentences 30 Islamists to life imprisonment
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May 19, 2015 10:07:16 am

An Egyptian court sentenced 30 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday to life imprisonment on charges of violent behavior. The largest case concerned 17 out of the 30 defendants and included charges stemming from attempts made...

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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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