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Australian immigration reform prompts detainees to attempt suicide, woundings

June 18, 2005 03:01:00 PM

Thirteen refugees being held in immigration detention centers in Australia inflicted wounds upon themselves Saturday, protesting recent reforms in Australia's immigration policies that stop short of freeing all "unauthorised arrivals" currently imprisoned in refugee camps. The Australian...

UN group criticizes Canada for holding unsentenced detainees

June 17, 2005 04:11:00 PM

A UN panel has expressed "great concern" at the increase in unsentenced detainees in Canadian prisons following recent federal sentencing reform . There are currently in Canada more incarcerated persons awaiting trial or sentencing than there are...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants

On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially-restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.

World Press Freedom day

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. On May 3, 1845, Macon B. Allen, the first African American to practice law in the United States, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Learn more about Allen's admission.