Florida voter registration ruling [US DC] News
Florida voter registration ruling [US DC]

Diaz v. Hood, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge James L. King, October 26, 2004 [ruling that county election supervisors had acted legally in denying voter applications that were incomplete at the Oct. 4 registration deadline]. Read the full opinion here [PDF: warning – the file posted by the court seems to be missed its first two pages]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up bus seat to white passenger

On December 1, 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action prompted a year-long boycott of the Montgomery public transit system, which only came to an end after bus segregation was ruled illegal by the federal courts. Read a brief biography of Rosa Parks from the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy State Univerity, Montgomery. In 1999 Ms. Parks received the background report on the Pacifica News Network.

World AIDS Day

On December 1, 1988, World AIDS Day was observed for the first time.