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News New Year marks enforcement of new legislation in many US states
New Year marks enforcement of new legislation in many US states
jstaff
December 31, 2006 08:25:00 pm

A slew of new US state laws will greet the New Year when they take effect on January 1. The state minimum wage will increase in Arizona , California ,...

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News Race riot put down at California state prison
Race riot put down at California state prison
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 31, 2006 08:01:00 pm

The California state correctional facility in Chino was under lockdown Sunday after prison authorities put down a major race riot that broke out Saturday morning reportedly setting blacks and Hispanic inmates against each other in one of...

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News Apple Computer stock options probe reports no misconduct
Apple Computer stock options probe reports no misconduct
jstaff
December 31, 2006 02:57:00 pm

Apple Computer, Inc. Friday disclosed the findings of an internal report into alleged stock option manipulation by senior managers, including CEO Steve Jobs, purporting to clear its executives of any wrong-doing and concluding that Jobs did not...

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News Saddam Hussein buried in hometown near Tikrit
Saddam Hussein buried in hometown near Tikrit
Katerina Ossenova
December 31, 2006 10:55:00 am

Less than 24 hours after his execution , the body of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was buried in his home village of Ouja near Tikrit just before dawn local time...

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News Saddam hanging shown on Web video recorded by camera phone at execution
Saddam hanging shown on Web video recorded by camera phone at execution
Katerina Ossenova
December 31, 2006 10:51:00 am

An unofficial and grainy video of the entire execution of Saddam Hussein , including his actual hanging, was posted on the Web late Saturday. The official video, broadcast ...

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News Inmate religious rights ruling [4th Circuit]
Inmate religious rights ruling [4th Circuit]
December 30, 2006 09:46:00 pm

Madison v. US, US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, December 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

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News Rights official presses for Afghan war crimes prosecutions after Saddam hanging
Rights official presses for Afghan war crimes prosecutions after Saddam hanging
Joshua Pantesco
December 30, 2006 04:17:00 pm

The Saturday execution of Saddam Hussein reminds the citizens of Afghanistan that the international legal community has allowed war criminals in Afghanistan to go completely unpunished over the past 25 years, an Afghani human...

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News Hussein to be buried Sunday near Tikrit
Hussein to be buried Sunday near Tikrit
Joshua Pantesco
December 30, 2006 03:36:00 pm

Al-Arabiya satellite television is reporting that Saddam Hussein's body is being transported from Baghdad to his hometown of Ouja near Tikrit for burial, which is scheduled to occur Sunday . The provincial governor of Salahuddin along...

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News Rights groups protest Saddam hanging
Rights groups protest Saddam hanging
Joshua Pantesco
December 30, 2006 02:49:00 pm

The execution of Saddam Hussein Saturday has drawn sharp criticism from leading human rights groups. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both questioned whether the Iraqi appeals court thoroughly scrutinized the guilty verdict ...

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News Inmate religious rights upheld by Fourth Circuit
Inmate religious rights upheld by Fourth Circuit
jstaff
December 30, 2006 11:51:00 am

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) Friday after inmate Ira Madison sued the Commonwealth of Virginia and various Virginia Department of...

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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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