Though Quakers didn’t pen an official proclamation banning slavery until 1776, Francis Daniel Pastorius, a Quaker from Germantown, drafted a protest against slavery in 1688.

Following a California murder trial, two jurors became “friends” on Facebook, and one noticed that the other posted comments, during the trial, about evidence in the case.

Since its founding, the NAACP has relied on legal action to protect the political, educational, social, and economic rights of people of color.

Emma Thompson asserts that her screenplay examining the love triangle among John Ruskin, Euphemia Gray, and John Everett Millais, is significantly different from Gregory Murphy’s screenplay, The Countess.

Following the shooting of an unarmed African immigrant, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ordered a study of 175,000 records of the Street Crimes Unit’s “stop and frisk” practice.

A planned Michael Jackson tribute concert never came to fruition, and a small Prince Edward Island city demands the promoter refund $1.3 million.

Markman orders on Westlaw now include a field of all editorially-identified terms construed in the order.

Attorney Louis Brandeis, who poineered the “Brandeis brief” and co-wrote “The Right to Privacy,” was the first Jew to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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California company Power Balance sued over hologram-embedded bracelets that claim to improve athletic performace.