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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 24 March 2018

March 24, 2018 12:00:09 PM

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The UK Court of Appeal ruled this week that software is not a good, overruling the lower court opinion. UN human rights experts expressed concern [press...

March 24, 2018 12:00:04 PM

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The Kentucky Senate approved a bill on Thursday that outlaws the use of the dilation and excavation abortion method for patients in their eleventh week of pregnancy...

March 23, 2018 11:29:13 AM

The Kentucky Senate approved a bill on Thursday that outlaws the use of the dilation and excavation abortion method for patients in their eleventh week of pregnancy or later. The method is most commonly used in...

March 23, 2018 07:41:04 AM

Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill known as the Reproductive Parity Act (RPA) into law on Wednesday, which will require insurers in the state of Washington to provide coverage for elective abortions and contraception if...

March 22, 2018 07:05:06 PM

The US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking Mississippi's HB 1510 , enacted only one day earlier, that prohibits abortion after the 15-week gestation period. Termed the...

March 21, 2018 07:38:21 AM

The US Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday concerning the constitutional validity of California's Reproductive Fact Act , which has been challenged on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds. The Act requires...

March 20, 2018 07:46:27 AM

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Monday signed into law the country's strictest abortion law, prompting Mississippi's only abortion clinic to file a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi challenging the...

March 17, 2018 12:00:03 PM

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Treasury Department imposed new economic sanctions Thursday on 19 Russian individuals and five entities for their interference in the 2016 US election, and a number of other...

March 15, 2018 03:10:41 PM

The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of Ohio's recently proposed HB 214 , a bill which criminalizes the performance of an abortion...

March 13, 2018 04:07:37 PM

The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday requiring the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare to provide information to women seeking abortions about reversing a medical abortion once it has begun....

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Nuremberg race laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans." White circles represented on the chart are "pure Germans" while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish heritage. Review the Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.

KKK bombs Alabama Church

On September 15, 1963, members of the Klu Klux Klan bombed a predominantly African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. The blast at the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four young girls and injured twenty other people. Despite an investigation by the FBI, no one was charged with responsibility for the crime until Robert Chambliss was convicted of murder in 1977. His accomplices, Thomas Blaton, Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, were not tried and convicted until about twenty-five years later. Learn more about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and the trials of Blanton and Cherry from NPR.

Nuremberg Laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans": white circles represent on the chart are "pure Germans", while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish blood.

Review the Laws for Protection of the German Race on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.