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Appeals court throws out one of two criminal charges against Rick Perry

July 24, 2015 03:41:13 PM

The US Third Court of Appeals on Friday dismissed one of two criminal charges filed against former Texas governor Rick Perry last year.The court stated that the coercion of a public servant [Texas Penal Code Chapter...

July 23, 2015 10:34:56 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the April 2014 decision of the US District Court for the District of North Dakota striking down an extremely...

July 20, 2015 11:57:04 AM

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Monday signed into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act , limiting the ability of a woman to seek an abortion more than 20 weeks into her pregnancy. Proponents of the bill say...

July 8, 2015 10:55:38 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres, of Ibero-American University, discusses the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage in the US... The Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") issued its anticipated opinion on Obergefell v. Hodges . Regardless of...

June 30, 2015 11:46:10 AM

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted a motion to stay , allowing over half of Texas' 18 abortion clinics to stay open by temporarily blocking a law that would place stringent requirements on clinics...

June 26, 2015 10:08:58 AM

A Kansas judge for the Shawnee County District Court blocked a law on Thursday that would have effectively banned most second-trimester abortions performed in the state. Judge Larry Hendricks stated that the first-in-the-nation law would have...

June 15, 2015 02:01:39 PM

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Walker-McGill v. Stuart , letting stand a decision blocking North Carolina's abortion ultrasound requirement. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit...

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Canadian Freedom of Religion Case

June 15, 2015 08:02:27 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Diana Ginn of Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, discusses the debate surrounding the freedom of religion held by private and public schools in Canada with regards to curriculum...In Loyola High School and John Zucci v. Attorney...

June 11, 2015 01:03:34 PM

The Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Florida filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a Florida law requiring women to visit a doctor and wait 24...

June 11, 2015 10:17:18 AM

The Wisconsin State Senate on Tuesday passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act , limiting the ability of a woman to seek an abortion more than 20 weeks into her pregnancy. Proponents of the bill say it...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Night of the Murdered Poets takes place in USSR

Soviet authorities under Josef Stalin executed a group of 13 Jewish intellectuals from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, an organization dedicated to supporting the Soviet war effort against Nazi Germany, on August 12, 1952. The 13 stood accused of supporting the US and Zionism as well as trying to create an independent republic in Crimea, which all but one falsely confessed to under torture. Learn more about the Night of the Murdered Poets from the World Jewish Congress and Forward. Also read a history of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee from the Jewish Virtual Library.

Swiss banks agreed to compensate Holocaust victims for holding assets

On August 12, 1998, Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle lawsuits brought by Holocaust survivors and their heirs. The plaintiffs had alleged that the banks had kept millions of dollars deposited by Holocaust victims before and during World War II. Read CNN's original report of the story.

City of Chicago founded

On August 12, 1833, the City of Chicago was founded. The city was later formally incorporated with a town charter on March 4, 1837.
Learn more about the history of Chicago's charter from the Encyclopedia of Chicago.

Former Japan PM convicted of accepting bribes

On August 12, 1983, the former Prime Minister of Japan, Tanaka Kakuei was convicted of accepting bribes while in office and sentenced to 4 years in jail. He came to be described as "the paragon of post war corruption" for taking money from the defense contractor Boeing in exchange for favorable contracts. Also on this day, Nikita Kruschev famously banged his shoe on the table during a heated argument before the United Nations General Assembly.