'No Fly' list challenge ruling [9th Circuit] News
'No Fly' list challenge ruling [9th Circuit]

Rahinah Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 18, 2008 [ruling that individuals placed on the government's "no-fly" list may challenge their inclusion on the list in federal district courts]. 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.