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September 27, 2004 04:59:00 PM

ACLU of Ohio v. Taft, US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, decided September 27, 2004 [on whether Ohio Gov. Bob Taft denied voters their constitutional rights to vote and to equal representation when he declined to order a special election...

September 27, 2004 04:49:00 PM

Access Now v. Southwest Airlines, US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, decided September 24, 2004. Read the opinion here . Excerpt: In declining to evaluate the merits of this case, we are in no way unmindful that the legal questions...

August 1, 2004 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that perhaps the most far-reaching impact of the upcoming November election is who will get to appoint the nation's judges - including its Supreme Court...

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Maybe Death Isn't So Different

July 18, 2004 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist LTC John M. Bickers, a law professor at the US Military Academy at West Point, says that two recent decisions regarding the death penalty show that the Supreme Court seems to accept capital sentencing as a punishment,...

January 31, 2003 02:39:00 PM

Ruggiero v. FCC, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, January 31, 2003 [upholding as constitutional a federal law and attendant FCC regulations barring former or current pirate broadcasters from obtaining a license for a new...

January 17, 2003 10:44:00 PM

Empagran v. F.Hoffman LaRoche, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, January 17, 2003 [ruling that foreign plaintiffs have standing to sue under federal antitrust laws for harm caused to them abroad as a result of...

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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).