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Drone memos may stay secret: federal appeals court

November 24, 2015 12:37:40 PM

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday released its ruling that the US government may keep secret memoranda related to the legal justification for the use of drones for targeted killings of those...

September 11, 2015 08:05:31 AM

California Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have banned individuals from flying drones lower than 350 feet over private property without permission from a landowner. The stated purpose of the...

September 10, 2015 09:33:12 AM

Rights Watch (UK) commenced a legal proceeding against the government on Tuesday, seeking the publication of legal advice the government claims provided justification for a Syrian drone strike that killed three, including two British citizens....

August 25, 2015 01:23:35 PM

California lawmakers on Monday approved two bills intended to regulate drones. The Assembly voted 43-11 in favor of a bill that would make it a crime to fly a drone over private property without permission. The Senate...

June 9, 2015 01:59:23 PM

The families of two Yemeni men who were killed by US drone strikes filed a lawsuit Sunday against the US claiming that the men, Salem bin Ali Jaber and Waleed bin Ali Jaber, were "innocent bystanders" who were...

April 13, 2015 10:03:55 AM

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday rejected a petition to stop US drone attacks in the northwestern tribal region of the country. Justice Saqib Nisar presided over the petition and concluded that the it...

April 7, 2015 11:07:13 AM

Pakistan's Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued an order to register a report against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks for his involvement in a 2009 US drone attack that killed two tribesmen. The court's order...

February 20, 2015 05:08:40 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon discusses recent terrorism trials...On August 7, 1998, al Qaeda terrorists simultaneously attacked the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania with massive truck bombs, killing a combined...

December 25, 2014 10:37:12 AM

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted three draft resolutions to reinforce the UN's emergency humanitarian response. The drafts were adopted without a vote, and they concerned international cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of...

December 1, 2014 12:27:32 PM

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that the new UK Counterterrorism and Securities Bill infringes on human rights . The bill, presented by Prime Mininster David Cameron to Parliament last Wednesday...

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International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism

November 9 is the International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism [UNITED factsheet]. On November 9, 1924, American gay activist Henry Gerber and several associates formed the Society for Human Rights, the first gay rights organization in the United States. The Society received a charter from the State of Illinois in December but was disbanded in July 1925 after a police raid which led to Gerber's arrest and trial (albeit not conviction). Pay a virtual visit to Henry Gerber House, now a registered Chicago landmark.

Supreme Court strikes down Massachusetts anti-draft law

On November 9, 1970, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 in Massachusetts v. Laird not to hear the case of the state's anti-draft law. Massachusetts had passed a law, which allowed its citizens to decline to fight in any undeclared war, even if the person was drafted. The law was passed in opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam. The First Circuit found the war constitutional and thus struck down the law.