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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] granted certiorari [order list, PDF] Monday in Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi v. IndyMac MBS, Inc. [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to rule on the statute of limitations in class action suits. In American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah (1974) [opinion] the.... [more]
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James Earl Ray sentenced for the murder of Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray was sentenced to
99 years in prison for the murder of civil rights leader Martin
Luther King, Jr.. Ray died in 1998, still seeking a retrial of his
case. On December 9th, 1999, a Memphis jury
handed down a verdict agreeing with the King family that the 1968
assassination of the civil rights leader was a conspiracy rather
than the act of a lone gunman. Learn more about the trial and the
assassination from The King
Center in Atlanta.
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