HealthSouth CEO sentencing remand [11th Circuit] News
HealthSouth CEO sentencing remand [11th Circuit]

US v. Livesay, US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, November 16, 2009 [vacating a trial court's sentence of former HealthSouth executive Ken Livesay for being too lenient Monday, remanding the case to the lower court with a demand that Livesay be sentenced to time in jai].

Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on HealthSouth.

THIS DAY @ LAW

No lynchings reported in US for first time

On December 30, 1952, the Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year of no lynchings of African Americans in the United States in the 71 years it had kept records. Learn more about lynching and listen to Billie Holiday's jazz recording of the 1938 protest song Strange Fruit.

USSR established

On December 30, 1922, representatives of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Transcaucus approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, creating the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). During World War II, the USSR would also annex Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Moldova. Learn more about the history of the USSR from the BBC.