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UK consumer advocacy group takes legal action against Google

UK consumer advocacy group takes legal action against Google

Christopher Hsu

December 1, 2017 01:22:58 pm

UK consumer activist group Google You Owe Us initiated representative legal action Thursday against tech giant Google, alleging that Google illegally mined private information from consumers. According to Google You Owe Us, the tech giant unlawfully...

Federal court denies Chicago’s request for further injunction in ‘sanctuary city’ funding case

Federal court denies Chicago’s request for further injunction in ‘sanctuary city’ funding case

Christopher Hsu

November 17, 2017 09:17:17 pm

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday denied the City of Chicago's motion for reconsideration of an earlier order granting partial injunction of a federal law enforcement grant program. The dispute...

HRW accuses Myanmar military of sexual crimes against Rohingya women and children

HRW accuses Myanmar military of sexual crimes against Rohingya women and children

Christopher Hsu

November 16, 2017 12:00:23 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused the Myanmar military of committing sexual crimes against Rohingya women and girls. HRW conducted interviews with 52 women and girls who fled from the Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships. Twenty-nine of them were...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court decided Dartmouth College case

On February 2, 1819, the US Supreme Court decided Dartmouth College v. Woodward, ruling that the charter of a college was a contract that a state could not alter arbitrarily.

New Amsterdam incorporated

On February 2, 1653, the City of New Amsterdam was incorporated by the Dutch Republic. After the British conquest, the city was renamed New York after the Duke of York.

Breviary of Alaric put into effect by Visigoth king

King Alaric II of the Visigoths put the Breviary of Alaric, a collection of Roman laws, into effect on February 2, 506. The breviary contains constitutions and laws of the newly fallen Roman Empire, including the Theodosian code, and parts of the Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes. The Breviary of Alaric predated the Byzantine Empire's Code of Justinian by 23 years. Read an entry on the Breviary of Alaric from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.