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News Top US commander in Iraq authorized extreme interrogation tactics
Top US commander in Iraq authorized extreme interrogation tactics
Jeannie Shawl
March 30, 2005 12:56:00 pm

Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, once the top US commander in Iraq, authorized harsh prisoner interrogation tactics, according to a 2003 memo obtained and released by the ACLU under its ongoing Freedom of Information Act requests...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ AIG admits to improper accounting
Corporations and securities brief ~ AIG admits to improper accounting
Amit Patel
March 30, 2005 12:30:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, American International Group Inc. (AIG) announced it will delay its SEC filing of its quarterly results and also that it had found documentation of illegal transactions with General Re Corp,...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court rules in age discrimination suit
BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court rules in age discrimination suit
Jeannie Shawl
March 30, 2005 10:20:00 am

The US Supreme Court handed down a decision Wednesday morning in Smith v. City of Jackson , ruling that workers over the age of 40 need not show proof of discriminatory intent in lawsuits...

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News New misconduct lawsuit filed against former Hollinger CEO
New misconduct lawsuit filed against former Hollinger CEO
Jeannie Shawl
March 30, 2005 10:10:00 am

Hollinger Inc., the Canadian holding company with an interest in the newspaper publisher Hollinger International, filed a $636 million lawsuit Tuesday against former CEO Conrad Black and other former executives. Hollinger is seeking damages for Black's alleged diversion of...

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News Federal judge bars US from sending detainees abroad without notice
Federal judge bars US from sending detainees abroad without notice
Jeannie Shawl
March 30, 2005 10:07:00 am

US District Judge Henry Kennedy issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday ordering the military to give detainees' lawyers 30 days' notice before transferring a detainee from Guantanamo Bay to the custody of foreign governments, allowing...

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News Gitmo review tribunals wrap up; 38 detainees ordered released
Gitmo review tribunals wrap up; 38 detainees ordered released
Jeannie Shawl
March 30, 2005 10:05:00 am

The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals for all Guantanamo Bay detainees have been completed. Navy Secretary Gordon England , who has overseen the CSRT process, announced that 38 of...

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News Federal appeals court to consider full court rehearing of Schiavo case
Federal appeals court to consider full court rehearing of Schiavo case
Jeannie Shawl
March 30, 2005 10:01:00 am

In an order issued just after midnight Wednesday morning, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit agreed to consider Bob and Mary Schindler's request for a new hearing en banc on whether a feeding tube...

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News Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Wednesday, March 30
Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Wednesday, March 30
Chris Buell
March 30, 2005 12:01:00 am

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, March 30.The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one case today, beginning at 10 AM ET. In Wilkinson v....

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News UN Oil-for-Food inquiry second interim report [IIC-OFFP]
UN Oil-for-Food inquiry second interim report [IIC-OFFP]
March 29, 2005 11:24:00 pm

Second Interim Report, Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme , March 29, 2005 . Read the full text of the report...

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News Well-known defense attorney Johnnie Cochran dies at 67
Well-known defense attorney Johnnie Cochran dies at 67
Chris Buell
March 29, 2005 10:38:00 pm

Attorney Johnnie Cochran died Tuesday at the age of 67 from a brain tumor. Cochran was known for his colorful personality, as well as for his skill as a courtroom orator. Cochran was best known for successfully...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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