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A judge is denying a Maui doctor’s request to be released on bail while he fights an attempted murder charge stemming from ...
This situation changed, to an extent, with the abolition of slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment ... As the Supreme Court ruled in 1812, foreign public vessels in US territorial waters ...
The Appellate Division has deferred the scheduled hearing of a review petition filed challenging the cancellation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which introduced the caretaker government ...
This week’s column in this context opines that the writing is on the wall for the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It is the 13th ...
The High Court has raised a legal question regarding the hearing of the rule on the 15th Amendment, as a case concerning the 13th Amendment remains pending in the Appellate Division. The court ...
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...
It’s obviously hard to know what Abraham Lincoln would think today about parts of the 13th Amendment that was broadly designed to end slavery. He was assassinated just four months after Congress ...
Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday demanded to know from the government for whose benefit it was trying to implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Speaking soon after ...
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is planning to press ahead with his quest for the full implementation of the 13th Amendment as part of his reconciliation efforts with the nation’s ...
On the contentious issue of implementation of the 13th Constitutional Amendment, which PM Modi also stressed upon in his meeting with Mr Wickremesinghe, Mr Thondaman said, "The 13th Amendment in ...
“Nearly 160 years after the 13 th Amendment was ratified, the evil remnants of slavery persist in the U.S., embedded in the heart of our Constitution. To live up to our nation’s promise of ...