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Restoring Rehabilitation to the American Juvenile Justice System

September 24, 2012 04:30:00 PM

Perry Moriearty, University of Minnesota School of Law

August 30, 2012 02:08:17 PM

The US Department of Defense announced Wednesday that the Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions has filed terrorism charges against a Saudi Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up...

July 18, 2012 04:44:04 PM

Hungarian authorities on Wednesday took into custody a 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The man alleged to be Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Budapest after the Simon Wiesenthal Center...

July 17, 2012 09:19:03 AM

Hungarian authorities on Monday announced plans to investigate into whether a former Nazi resides in the country's capital amid demands by various rights groups to prosecute the war criminal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human...

April 12, 2012 10:37:36 AM

Prosecutors in Turkey ordered the arrest of dozens of former military leaders on Thursday for their alleged role in the ouster of former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan . Prosecutors allege that the military leaders, including four retired generals,...

April 4, 2012 10:34:02 AM

The Ankara 12th High Criminal Court on Wednesday began the trial of the last two surviving leaders of Turkey's 1980 coup d'etat that led to three years of military rule, during which 50 people were hanged and half a...

October 18, 2011 11:28:46 AM

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday ruled that, under European law, a patent cannot be issued for any process which involves removing a stem cell from and then destroying a human...

March 2, 2011 11:15:17 AM

The Malaysian Federal Court refused to dismiss a lawsuit Tuesday brought on behalf of indigenous peoples of Borneo who claim the Sarawat state government unconstitutionally took their land and sold it to businesses....

May 5, 2010 03:28:55 PM

A French appeals court on Monday refused a US extradition request for Iranian engineer Majid Kakavand, accused of illegally exporting electronic equipment to Iran for military use. Kakavand was detained in France in March 2009 after the US government...

January 19, 2010 12:15:00 PM

Former vice president of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) Huang Songyou was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges on Tuesday and sentenced to life imprisonment . Huang is the highest-ranking judge to be charged...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).