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18 Jun 2021, 11:18 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
President Biden signed a bill declaring Juneteenth to be a federal holiday after it made its way through Congress with minimal opposition, reports the New York Times. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 2:25 pm by NCC Staff
The last time Congress and the President added a new federal holiday was on November 2, 1983, when President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law No: 98-144, “A bill to amend Title 5, United States Code, to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 8:51 am by Amy Howe
But five years later, Congress changed the tax penalty for failing to obtain health insurance, lowering it from $695 to $0. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 11:03 am by Nathan Dorn
Today is the 806th anniversary of the day King John of England committed to undertake the reforms that were enumerated in Magna Carta. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 6:11 am by Dennis Crouch
This was directed to be done by the first act of congress, passed relative to this subject; but, unfortunately, I think, it is not required by that now in force. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 3:32 pm by Nathan Sheard
Unfortunately, another court proceeded to dodge the issue by hiding under "qualified immunity," which is one reason EFF calls on Congress to repeal this dangerous doctrine. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 5:57 am by Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Eliza Friend, who served as a spring 2021 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 6:00 am by Elin Hofverberg
However, women continued to seek the right to vote, including writing a letter to the Swedish King Oscar II, asking for the right to vote. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 7:55 am by Daniel Richman, Sarah Seo
To be sure, there has been progress; for example, in the mid-1990s after the police beating of Rodney King, Congress authorized the Justice Department to pursue institutional change in departments with “patterns or practices” of unconstitutional conduct. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
While that tradition can be traced back to the Boston Tea Party, the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. made that mode of expression sacrosanct. [read post]
28 May 2021, 11:20 am by Margaret Wood
A Stamp Act Congress held in October 1765 proposed petitioning the king to reconsider the scope of the law. [read post]
28 May 2021, 3:58 am by Chris Seaton
I hate to be the spoiler, but if you thought sexual congress deemed Fornication Under Consent of the King is where we get “fuck,” or labeling barrels of manure as Ship High In Transport is how we got to “shit,” I’ve got news for you–both are urban legends with little factual basis. [read post]
23 May 2021, 6:57 am by IntLawGrrls
Rachel’s writing on transnational migrant justice and clinical legal educ ation has been published by the The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she co-led an international clinic for law students. [read post]
20 May 2021, 7:02 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
The passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, now pending in Congress, would prevent other "Tiger King" wannabes from profiting off the lives of vulnerable big cats. [read post]
18 May 2021, 12:44 pm by Josh Blackman
IRS was only the second majority opinion to cite NFIB, after King v. [read post]
18 May 2021, 5:01 am by George Croner
Finally, the querying procedures, added by Congress in reauthorizing Section 702 in 2018, regulate the manner by which the unminimized data collected under Section 702 may be searched to retrieve information. [read post]