Guantanamo Bay surveillance ruling [US DC] News
Guantanamo Bay surveillance ruling [US DC]

Wilner v. National Security Agency, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of New York, June 25, 2008 [ruling that the National Security Agency (NSA) does not have to to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether it has used electronic surveillance methods to monitor their communications]. Read the full text of the decision [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

Read the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England.