UK Human Rights Act applicability in Iraq ruling [UK HL] News
UK Human Rights Act applicability in Iraq ruling [UK HL]

Al-Skeini and others v. Secretary of State for Defense, UK House of Lords, June 13, 2007 [ruling that the Human Rights Act of 1998 applies to overseas British soldiers if an alleged human rights abuse occurred within the legal jurisdiction of the United Kingdom]. Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Standard Oil incorporated

On January 10, 1870, John Davison Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. Rockefeller's corporation would grow to achieve a virtual monopoly over oil production in the United States. Standard Oil's dominance lasted until the corporation was split into 34 separate companies in 1911 after the Supreme Court found the company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The rise of Standard Oil made Rockefeller America's first billionaire and eventually the richest man in the world. Read the text of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey vs. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910).