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News Trials begin for white supremacist prison gang members
Trials begin for white supremacist prison gang members
Holly Manges Jones
March 14, 2006 07:27:00 am

Four members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial Tuesday in California as the government attempts to bring an end to the white supremacist group. Altogether, twenty members of the gang face eventual trial in...

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News NAACP urges Justice Department to block New Orleans elections under Voting Rights Act
NAACP urges Justice Department to block New Orleans elections under Voting Rights Act
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 06:56:00 am

The president of the NAACP called on the US Justice Department Monday to block New Orleans mayoral elections currently scheduled for April 22, saying they would be "illegal" because the state of Louisiana "cannot guarantee...

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News Milosevic trial formally closed
Milosevic trial formally closed
Holly Manges Jones
March 14, 2006 06:49:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formally closed its war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday, three days after he was found dead in his cell over...

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News Feingold resolution to censure Bush shuttled off to committee
Feingold resolution to censure Bush shuttled off to committee
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 06:33:00 am

A resolution introduced Monday in the US Senate by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush over domestic spying received only lukewarm approval from Feingold's fellow Democrats, preventing a floor vote...

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News Belarus jails 15 opposition activists days before presidential election
Belarus jails 15 opposition activists days before presidential election
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 05:55:00 am

Belarus authorities in Minsk Monday sentenced fifteen opposition activists to short jail terms as part of the government's latest effort to suppress opposition before Sunday's presidential elections. According to human rights monitors, the activists were not...

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News UK ID card legislation goes back to Lords after latest Commons endorsement
UK ID card legislation goes back to Lords after latest Commons endorsement
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 05:19:00 am

The controversial UK Identity Cards Bill will go back to the House of Lords on Wednesday after Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour Party won a critical...

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News Memo against dismissal of Moussaoui death notice [US DC]
Memo against dismissal of Moussaoui death notice [US DC]
March 13, 2006 10:50:00 pm

Government's Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice and/or Exclusion of Witness, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 [memorandum opposing Moussaoui's motion to dismiss the death notice based on...

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News Moussaoui defense memo in support of death notice dismissal [US DC]
Moussaoui defense memo in support of death notice dismissal [US DC]
March 13, 2006 10:30:00 pm

Defendant's Memorandum in Support of his Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice and for Other Relief, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 [memorandum in support of Moussaoui's motion to dismiss the death notice...

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News Moussaoui trial prosecutorial misconduct letter [US DC]
Moussaoui trial prosecutorial misconduct letter [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 13, 2006 09:38:00 pm

Ex Parte Communication by USA as to Zacarias Moussaoui, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 [redacted version of letter to US District Judge Leonie Brinkema describing prosecutorial misconduct of a TSA attorney in...

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News DOJ, Google to spar over search data in federal court
DOJ, Google to spar over search data in federal court
Christopher G. Anderson
March 13, 2006 04:08:00 pm

Google goes to federal court on Tuesday - backed by online privacy advocate groups - to fight a Bush administration subpoena that seeks to force the search engine giant to hand over an enormous amount of its...

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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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