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Egypt court rejects release of Mubarak's sons until trial in September

July 9, 2012 01:48:34 PM

An Egyptian court on Monday rejected pleas to release two sons of ousted former leader Hosni Mubarak while they await trial. Their lawyer, Farid el-Deeb, argued that his clients are detained unlawfully because...

June 20, 2012 03:53:06 PM

Romania's High Court of Cassation and Justice on Wednesday confirmed the two-year sentence against former prime minister Adrian Nastase . He had been charged with graft and corruption ,...

June 13, 2012 10:33:34 AM

The office of prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) asked the court on Wednesday to sentence the convicted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to...

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Egypt state-of-emergency law expires

May 31, 2012 12:03:09 PM

Egypt's state-of-emergency will come to an end on Thursday when a two-year extension on a law authorizing broad government powers of arrest and detention expires. Individuals who have already been sentenced or detained under the less-restrictive requirements of the...

May 30, 2012 12:48:42 PM

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for stricter regulations on abortions and Caesarean births in Turkey, a Turkish television network reported Tuesday. Among his desired reforms are restricting the reasons a...

May 25, 2012 03:58:35 PM

The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court ruled on Thursday that two former Bosnian Serb police officers were guilty of aiding and abetting genocide. The court convicted Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric for taking part...

March 29, 2012 01:00:00 PM

JURIST Columnist Charles C. Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the date set for the verdict in the Charles Taylor case by the Special Court for Sierra Leone is inappropriate given the fact that it...

March 15, 2012 01:09:11 PM

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that he would seek the maximum sentence for recently convicted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo . Lubanga was found...

March 15, 2012 08:29:10 AM

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, a US pastor with Abiding Truth Ministries , for enabling the anti-gay movement in Uganda . The...

March 14, 2012 10:48:38 AM

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Wednesday issued its first verdict, a unanimous decision that Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is guilty of the war crimes of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.