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News Bulgaria, Romania legal systems need improvement: EU report
Bulgaria, Romania legal systems need improvement: EU report
Steve Czajkowski
March 24, 2010 07:46:00 am

The European Commission (EC) released reports Tuesday that said Bulgaria and Romania must do more to combat corruption and organized crime, and conduct judicial reforms in order...

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News Myanmar high court rejects Suu Kyi lawsuit challenging election laws
Myanmar high court rejects Suu Kyi lawsuit challenging election laws
Tara Tighe
March 24, 2010 07:30:00 am

The Myanmar Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit to repeal election laws preventing pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming elections. The lawsuit was filed by Suu Kyi's...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on two-member labor relations board
Supreme Court hears arguments on two-member labor relations board
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 23, 2010 07:02:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board on whether the National Labor Relations...

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News Attorneys general of 13 states file suit against health care reform law
Attorneys general of 13 states file suit against health care reform law
Brian Jackson
March 23, 2010 06:32:00 pm

The attorneys general (AGs) of 13 states filed suit in federal court in Florida on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . The suit comes the same day that...

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News Obama signs health care reform bill into law
Obama signs health care reform bill into law
Brian Jackson
March 23, 2010 05:08:00 pm

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a bill to significantly alter the US health care system. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was presented to the president on Monday...

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News Top Turkish judge: proposed constitutional amendments threaten judicial independence
Top Turkish judge: proposed constitutional amendments threaten judicial independence
Sarah Paulsworth
March 23, 2010 01:54:00 pm

The proposed amendments to Turkey’s Constitution threaten separation of power and judicial independence, the president of Turkey's Supreme Court Hasan Gerceker declared on Monday...

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News Google stops censoring China search results after legal dispute
Google stops censoring China search results after legal dispute
Sarah Miley
March 23, 2010 12:13:00 pm

Google officially stopped censoring search results to Chinese users on Tuesday after a legal impasse was reached between the Internet giant and the Chinese government. Google announced Monday that it would be rerouting the Google.cn...

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News Supreme Court rules student loan debts can be discharged without undue hardship claim
Supreme Court rules student loan debts can be discharged without undue hardship claim
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 23, 2010 10:48:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa that a bankruptcy court can discharge a student loan debt even...

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News Europe court rules Google not violating trademark law
Europe court rules Google not violating trademark law
Ann Riley
March 23, 2010 10:37:00 am

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that Google did not violate trademark law by selling advertising linked to trademarked names. The court reasoned that Google...

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News Federal judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee accused in 9/11 attacks
Federal judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee accused in 9/11 attacks
Andrea Bottorff
March 23, 2010 08:37:00 am

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who had been accused of planning the 9/11 terrorist...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.

International Migrants Day

December 18 is International Migrants Day, marking the 1990 adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

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