FindLaw has teamed with National Public Radio’s Justice Talking program to launch the blog Today in Legal History. As the name suggests, each day the blog highlights a historical event related to law or government. The blog appears on both FindLaw and on JusticeLearning, a Web site produced by Justice Talking together with The New York Times Learning Network.
July 21, for example, was the fifth anniversary of WorldCom’s bankruptcy filing, the largest in U.S. history. July 20 was the date in 1990 that a federal appeals court overturned Oliver North’s Iran-Contra-related felony convictions.