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Federal judge blocks Pennsylvania city anti-immigration laws

November 1, 2006 06:15:00 AM

US District Judge James Munley granted a temporary restraining order late Tuesday prohibiting the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania from enforcing the city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act and Landlord Tenant Ordinance . The...

Pennsylvania city anti-immigration law targeted in second lawsuit

October 31, 2006 07:17:00 AM

Advocacy groups filed a second lawsuit Monday against the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in an attempt to block the community's anti-immigration laws that will make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to reside or work in the...

No government guarantees for illegal immigrants caught up in Katrina

September 10, 2005 03:00:00 PM

The US government has so far held back from making any guarantee to illegal immigrants caught up in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that they will be able to seek help from federal agencies without fear of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.