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US State Department releases 2013 annual rights reports

February 28, 2014 09:29:18 AM

The US Department of State (DOS) on Thursday released its annual country reports on human rights. In the preface to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry [official...

November 12, 2013 02:01:29 PM

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases. In Rosemond v. United States the court heard arguments on whether the offense of aiding and abetting the use...

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Defense of Marriage Act

July 19, 2013 11:51:17 PM

On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law. The act defines marriage as between one man and one woman for the purpose of excluding homosexual couples from the institution of marriage. DOMA also exempts state-recognized same-sex marriages...

January 12, 2013 04:44:54 PM

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in six new cases on Friday. In Salinas v. Texas the court will consider the boundaries of the Fifth Amendment right to remain...

November 2, 2012 10:01:59 AM

A Russian court on Wednesday reduced the sentence of the former business partner of jailed Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky by three years. Platon Lebedev has been incarcerated since...

June 8, 2012 05:00:00 PM

JURIST Columnist Courtney Joslin, writing the sixth installment of a column authored by the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, says that a Supreme Court decision regarding Social Security benefits for children conceived through in vitro...

May 25, 2012 10:59:00 AM

The US Department of State (DOS) on Friday released the 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . The reports outline the prevailing trends that shaped human rights last year. These include uprisings across the Middle East...

August 3, 2011 09:49:43 AM

An American Indian tribe in Washington state on Monday voted to adopt a new law recognizing same-sex marriage . The law, approved by the Suquamish Tribe council, extends marriage rights to same-sex couples...

July 3, 2011 05:30:06 PM

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee on Saturday signed into law a bill that legalizes same-sex civil unions in the state. The bill effectively adds a "Civil Unions" chapter to the Rhode Island General Laws section...

June 30, 2011 09:57:58 AM

The Rhode Island Senate on Wednesday approved a same-sex civil union bill by a vote of 21-16 . The bill is identical to a version of the bill passed in the House...

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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).