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News France president announces plans for new genocide law
France president announces plans for new genocide law
Jennie Ryan
July 8, 2012 11:28:03 am

French President Francois Hollande announced on Saturday that he plans a new law that would make it a crime to deny the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was a genocide. The...

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News West African leaders urge ICC to investigate Mali war crimes
West African leaders urge ICC to investigate Mali war crimes
Jennie Ryan
July 8, 2012 10:34:17 am

The leaders of six West African nations urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate war crimes in Mali at a crisis summit on Saturday. Malian soldiers took control of the government...

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News Egypt president appoints committee to investigate protester deaths
Egypt president appoints committee to investigate protester deaths
Jennie Ryan
July 7, 2012 12:19:46 pm

Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi on Thursday issued a decree appointing a fact-finding committee to investigate the deaths of protesters in last year's demonstrations. The committee is made up of 16 members including judges, a state prosecutor, a...

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News Romania lawmakers vote to impeach president
Romania lawmakers vote to impeach president
Jennie Ryan
July 7, 2012 11:52:31 am

Lawmakers in Romania voted on Friday to impeach President Traian Basescu for overstepping the bounds of his authority by interfering in judicial and legislative affairs. The Romanian Parliament voted 256-114 for impeachment. Romanian...

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News Somalia signs UN-backed plan to end use of child soldiers
Somalia signs UN-backed plan to end use of child soldiers
Jennie Ryan
July 4, 2012 02:24:47 pm

The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia on Wednesday signed an action plan to be implemented with the goal of ending the recruitment of child soldiers in the region. Somali Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Arab...

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News Michigan governor vetoes voter identification legislation
Michigan governor vetoes voter identification legislation
Jennie Ryan
July 4, 2012 01:54:59 pm

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) on Tuesday vetoed several measures in a series of new legislation that included amendments to the state's election laws. Two of the vetoed bills would have required voters to produce photo identification...

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DOJ will not prosecute AG Holder for contempt of Congress
Jennie Ryan
June 30, 2012 11:17:39 am

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Saturday announced that it will not prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder after the House of Representatives voted to hold him in contempt of Congress . The...

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News Kazakhstan must justify charges against political activists: HRW
Kazakhstan must justify charges against political activists: HRW
Jennie Ryan
June 30, 2012 10:44:10 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday demanded that authorities in Kazakhstan publicly disclose their reasons for bringing new criminal charges against a group of labor activists and an oil worker who participated in...

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News Bosnia war crimes court sentences Muslim brothers for murder of Serbian civilians
Bosnia war crimes court sentences Muslim brothers for murder of Serbian civilians
Jennie Ryan
June 24, 2012 11:19:46 am

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday sentenced two Bosnian Muslim brothers each to six years in prison for the murder of two Serbian civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War ....

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Federal judge dismisses Apple lawsuit against Motorola
Jennie Ryan
June 24, 2012 10:29:31 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday dismissed the patent lawsuit between Apple and Motorola . Judge Richard Posner dismissed the case with prejudice, ruling that...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

American colonists throw tea into Boston harbor in protest of Britain-imposed tea tax

A group of American colonists known as the "Sons of Liberty" boarded an East India Company ship carrying tea disguised as Native Americans on December 16, 1773, throwing the cargo overboard in protest of the British Parliament's taxes on tea imported by Americans. The protest would result in five acts of Parliament known as the "Intolerable Acts," including the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston Harbor to all ships. Read an eyewitness account of the Boston Tea Party.

English Bill of Rights took effect

On December 16, 1689, the English "Bill of Rights" went into effect. Review An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.

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On December 16, 1950, US President Harry S. Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency during the Korean War in response to Chinese intervention.

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