Title VII retaliatory firing ruling [US SC] News
Title VII retaliatory firing ruling [US SC]

Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, US Supreme Court, January 26, 2009 [ruling unanimously that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects a government employee against being fired for cooperating with an internal sexual harassment probe against a superior]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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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.