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Ukraine high court denies opposition leaders' appeals to run in parliamentary elections

August 16, 2012 03:30:48 PM

Ukraine's Supreme Administrative Court on Wednesday declined to overturn a lower court decision prohibiting former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former interior affairs minister Yuriy Lutsenko from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections....

August 14, 2012 10:25:12 AM

A Ukrainian Court on Tuesday postponed the tax evasion trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko after she declined to participate in the trial via a video link. A lawyer for Tymoshenko said...

August 8, 2012 02:50:20 PM

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes Russian the official language in parts of former Soviet republic within the country. Opponents of the bill heavily criticized the move, condemning ...

August 3, 2012 10:55:27 AM

Slovakian authorities on Thursday announced that they have filed new charges against a 97-year-old Hungarian man arrested in Budapest last month on allegations of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The charges concern facilitating the...

July 30, 2012 01:31:18 PM

Slovakian authorities on Monday announced plans to seek the extradition of a 97-year-old Hungarian man arrested in Budapest earlier this month on allegations of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Slovak Justice Minister Tomas Borec...

July 30, 2012 12:34:35 PM

Jailed former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday requested permission to be absent from her tax evasion trial proceedings, which are scheduled to resume on July 31. Tymoshenko reportedly asked to be excused...

July 23, 2012 02:56:10 PM

A Ukraine judge on Monday again postponed the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . Judge Kostyantyn Sadovsky for the court in the city of Kharkiv held that it would...

July 18, 2012 04:44:04 PM

Hungarian authorities on Wednesday took into custody a 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The man alleged to be Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Budapest after the Simon Wiesenthal Center...

July 17, 2012 09:19:03 AM

Hungarian authorities on Monday announced plans to investigate into whether a former Nazi resides in the country's capital amid demands by various rights groups to prosecute the war criminal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human...

July 12, 2012 11:41:01 AM

A Ukrainian appeals court on Thursday postponed the appeal hearing for former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , making this the third postponement in the former prime minister's appeal of her seven-year prison sentence. The case...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 signed into law

US President Millard Filmore signed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 on September 18 of that year, obliging law enforcement to arrest escaped slaves in all US states, including those where slavery was not legal. Free black men and women were endangered by the act's passage as they were at risk of being falsely identified as escaped slaves. The act heightened tensions between abolitionists in the North and slaveholders in the South, contributing to what would become the Civil War eleven years later. Learn more about the Fugitive Slave Act from the National Constitution Center.

Jurist Joseph Story born

On September 18, 1797, future US Supreme Court Justice, Harvard law professor, and legal author Joseph Story was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. West Virginia University law professor James Elkins notes that Story was also a poet; learn more about Story and read a couple of his poems here.

Anti-Corn Law League created in UK

On September 18, 1838, the Anti-Corn Law League was created in the United Kingdom. As the name suggests, the purpose of the association was to press for the abolition of British Corn Laws, which were indeed repealed in 1846. After the repeal, the organization worked to oppose other protectionist measures in the UK. The weekly news publication, The Economist, was founded as part of the anti-corn law movement.

Jurist Joseph Story born

On September 18, 1797, future US Supreme Court Justice, Harvard law professor, and legal author Joseph Story was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts.

West Virginiia University law professor James Elkins notes that Story was also a poet - learn more about Story and read a couple of his poems here.