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News Souter to retire from US Supreme Court: reports
Souter to retire from US Supreme Court: reports
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 1, 2009 12:56:00 pm

Justice David Souter of the US Supreme Court will retire at the end of the 2008 term in June, according to Thursday reports . Souter has not...

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News US trade office adds Canada to list of countries with ‘inadequate’ IP protections
US trade office adds Canada to list of countries with ‘inadequate’ IP protections
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 1, 2009 11:37:00 am

The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) on Thursday added Canada to its Priority Watch List of 12 countries that are not adequately protecting intellectual property rights . In...

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News Brazil high court rules press censorship law unconstitutional
Brazil high court rules press censorship law unconstitutional
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 1, 2009 10:10:00 am

The Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a law restricting the press as unconstitutional. The court ruled 7-4 that the Press Law , which was enacted...

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News Senate judiciary committee chair asks Bybee to testify on interrogation memos
Senate judiciary committee chair asks Bybee to testify on interrogation memos
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 30, 2009 01:46:00 pm

Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Wednesday invited former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay...

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News Rights group urges Mexico to hold soldiers accountable for human rights abuses
Rights group urges Mexico to hold soldiers accountable for human rights abuses
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 30, 2009 11:51:00 am

The Mexican military is failing to hold its members accountable for human rights abuses, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . According to the report, the use of the...

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News Last chance to vote for JURIST in the 2009 Webby Awards!
Last chance to vote for JURIST in the 2009 Webby Awards!
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 30, 2009 11:30:00 am

JURIST has been nominated in New York for a prestigious Webby Award as the best Law website of 2009. By virtue of being a nominee, JURIST is eligible for the Webby People's Voice award in addition to the judge's...

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News Obama affirms position that waterboarding is torture, defends banning technique
Obama affirms position that waterboarding is torture, defends banning technique
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 30, 2009 10:27:00 am

US President Barack Obama reaffirmed Wednesday his position that the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding amounts to torture and defended his decision to ban use of the technique ....

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News Lawyers urge release of Guantanamo detainees captured as juveniles
Lawyers urge release of Guantanamo detainees captured as juveniles
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 30, 2009 09:18:00 am

Lawyers for two Guantanamo Bay detainees who were captured as juveniles called for their release Wednesday, the same day as the UN Security Council held an open meeting on children in armed conflict. Lawyers...

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News Federal court sentences Fort Dix conspirators to life in prison
Federal court sentences Fort Dix conspirators to life in prison
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 29, 2009 04:24:00 pm

The five men convicted of plotting to kill US soldiers at Fort Dix have been giving sentences ranging from 33 years to life in prison. Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer was given a life sentence by a...

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News New Hampshire Senate passes same-sex marriage bill
New Hampshire Senate passes same-sex marriage bill
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
April 29, 2009 03:49:00 pm

The New Hampshire Senate voted 13-11 Wednesday to approve a bill that would permit same-sex marriage in the state. The New Hampshire House of Representatives approved the bill [JURIST...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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