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EPA defends California auto emissions waiver rejection before Senate panel

January 24, 2008 04:08:00 PM

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not overturn its rejection of California's request for a waiver that would have allowed it to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards on cars and light...

January 21, 2008 08:59:00 AM

Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "All was not well on the morning of December 27, yet it was not so unwell either. Elections were to take place on 8th of January. Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and...

January 20, 2008 10:18:00 AM

Pakistani police have arrested two suspects in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto , officials said on Saturday. Aitzaz Shah and Sher Zaman were detained in the town of Dera Ismail...

January 10, 2008 08:42:00 AM

The Constitutional Court of Korea on Thursday approved a special investigation of South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak over fraud allegations relating to stock price-rigging by a former business partner. Lee, who...

January 9, 2008 03:35:00 PM

Pakistani security forces have unfairly targeted members of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) , the party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , in an effort to prevent them from participating next month...

January 7, 2008 09:19:00 AM

Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will seek a religious opinion on the legality of execution by firing squad from the Indonesian Council of Ulema, their lawyer...

October 31, 2007 06:10:00 PM

The Italian judge presiding over the trial of 26 US CIA agents and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [JURIST news...

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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).