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Sharing a SOFA With Iraq: Towards a Status of Forces Agreement

July 2, 2008 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI, says that a viable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement between the US and Iraq governing future US troop presence in the country...

June 26, 2008 07:54:00 AM

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced Wednesday that it will prepare a report on allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo. Former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...

March 26, 2008 08:14:00 AM

Hollinger Inc. , the Canadian holding company with an interest in former newspaper publisher Hollinger International , has agreed to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) $21.3 million to settle claims ...

April 25, 2007 01:07:00 PM

Judges in Pakistan have postponed two separate proceedings in the case of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as criticism of President Pervez Musharraf's effective sacking of the country's chief magistrate continues. On...

March 11, 2007 03:17:00 PM

A Libyan court Sunday granted the defense team for six foreign medics accused of slandering police agents an additional two weeks to prepare for trial. Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death...

October 23, 2006 05:02:00 PM

US District Judge Sim Lake on Monday sentenced former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling to 24 years in prison and determined that $45 million of Skilling's assets will be seized to be...

March 8, 2005 07:45:00 AM

AP is reporting that Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj has resigned after being indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. The indictment, anticipated yesterday ...

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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).