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Malaysia opposition leader cleared of sodomy charges

January 9, 2012 09:49:30 AM

The Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday acquitted Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim of charges that he sodomized a former male political aide. High Court Judge Mohamad...

January 4, 2012 10:16:55 AM

A three-judge panel of the Provincial Court of Justice of Sucumbios in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, on Tuesday upheld a multi-billion dollar fine against Chevron for polluting the Amazon Jungle in the 1980s. The...

November 7, 2011 02:48:45 PM

Sri Lanka has failed to successfully investigate the issues of torture and impunity for past human rights violations in the country, Amnesty International (AI) said Monday on the eve of a review by the UN...

September 19, 2011 10:32:44 AM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday sentenced a man for contempt of court for refusing to testify. The man, Shefqet Kabashi, was sentenced to two months in jail ...

May 2, 2011 11:43:45 AM

US President Barack Obama announced Sunday night that earlier in the day a small team of US military personnel attacked a compound in which al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden had...

January 24, 2011 02:25:58 PM

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Thompson v. North American Stainless that a third party can sue his employer for retaliation. Eric Thompson was fired from North American...

January 21, 2011 02:00:32 PM

Nine former ethnic Albanian guerrillas have been sentenced to a total of 101 years in prison for killings committed after the Kosovo war ended. Belgrade's War Crimes Chamber of the Senior Court...

December 6, 2010 12:26:14 PM

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Wal-Mart v. Dukes , a massive gender discrimination class action lawsuit. The issues are (1) whether claims for monetary...

October 11, 2010 01:27:50 PM

The Belgrade Appeals Court on Monday overturned the war crimes conviction of former Bosnian officer Ilija Jurisic and ordered a retrial. The court reasoned that September 2009 proceedings in the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District...

January 15, 2010 02:11:00 PM

The corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resumed Friday but was immediately postponed to February 27. Judges for the tenth section of the Milan Tribunal postponed the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

West Germany becomes a sovereign nation

On May 5, 1955, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became a fully sovereign nation. Four days later on May 9, West Germany joined NATO. West Germany then became a founding member of the European Economic Community in 1958. Read the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz), which served as the constitution of West Germany and became the governing document of the reunited Germany in 1990.

Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in TN public schools

On May 5, 1925, high school science teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in the Tennessee public schools. Learn more about the Scopes Monkey Trial.