A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two people to death and several to life imprisonment for their involvement in the melamine-tainted milk scandal that sickened almost 300,000 children and killed at least six. Chairwoman of the...
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China court sentences 2 to death over tainted milk scandal
Obama orders Guantanamo prison closed within a year
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Federal judge rules Illinois school ‘moment of silence’ law unconstitutional
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Illinois school moment of silence ruling [US DC]
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Child Online Protection Act dead after high court declines to hear DOJ appeal
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Obama retakes presidential oath on lawyer’s advice
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Uganda high court rules death penalty constitutional
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Obama signs executive orders on transparency, ethics
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Guantanamo judges grant Obama motions to suspend military commission proceedings
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Supreme Court hears criminal procedure and deportation cases
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US President Barack Obama issued an executive order Thursday directing that the Guantanamo Bay military prison be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday ruled that an Illinois state law requiring a moment of silence in public schools is unconstitutional. Judge Robert Gettleman held...
Dawn S. Sherman, a minor, through Robert I. Sherman, her father and next friend, on behalf of herself and all other similarly situated, v. Township High School District 214, US District Court for the Northern of Illinois, January 21, 2009...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ended a decade-long battle by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to have the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA) declared constitutional by denying...
US President Barack Obama retook the presidential oath of office Wednesday, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts , following minor mistakes the two made in the wording of the oath during Tuesday's...
The Supreme Court of Uganda on Wednesday ruled that the death penalty is not prohibited by Uganda's constitution because it does not constitute cruel and inhuman punishment. The decision comes on an...
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued the first executive orders of his presidency, focusing on White House ethics and transparency. The executive order on Presidential Records grants broader public access to the records of previous...
A military judge on Wednesday suspended for 120 days the military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay against five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators , including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , granting a...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Corley v. United States , the Court heard arguments on whether federal statutory [18 U.S.C....
