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News Former Guantanamo prisoners held by home governments after latest transfers
Former Guantanamo prisoners held by home governments after latest transfers
Robert DeVries
December 23, 2006 10:54:00 am

Sixteen Saudis and a Bangladeshi man repatriated from Guantanamo Bay earlier this week to their home countries are being detained by their governments. Saudi Arabian authorities say they are holding their nationals in order to investigate...

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News Texas apartment owners sue over local illegal immigration laws
Texas apartment owners sue over local illegal immigration laws
Robert DeVries
December 23, 2006 10:01:00 am

Three Texas landlords filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of strict measures against illegal immigrants passed last month in their Dallas suburb . The defendants in the federal court action are the city...

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News Exxon Valdez punitive damages reduction ruling [9th Circuit]
Exxon Valdez punitive damages reduction ruling [9th Circuit]
December 22, 2006 09:14:00 pm

In re: The Exxon Valdez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 22, 2006 [ruling reducing by $2 billion a 1994 damages award against ExxonMobil corporation in respect of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which caused...

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News Iran liability for Saudi terror attack ruling [US DC]
Iran liability for Saudi terror attack ruling [US DC]
December 22, 2006 09:00:00 pm

Heiser v. Islamic Republic of Iran, US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 22, 2006 [ruling that Iran is liable to pay $254 million in damages and compensation to families of American victims of a 1996 terrorist attack...

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News Appeals court chops $2 billion off Exxon Valdez punitive damages award
Appeals court chops $2 billion off Exxon Valdez punitive damages award
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 22, 2006 06:53:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday reduced by $2 billion a 1994 damages award against ExxonMobil corporation in respect of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which caused a major Alaska oil spill [Anchorage...

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News Federal judge rules Iran liable for $254M in 1996 Saudi terror attack on Americans
Federal judge rules Iran liable for $254M in 1996 Saudi terror attack on Americans
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 22, 2006 06:29:00 pm

A US federal judge ruled Friday that Iran is liable to pay $254 million in damages and compensation to families of American victims of a 1996 terrorist attack it helped finance on Khobar Towers , a...

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News Pope assails same-sex unions in Christmas address to clergy
Pope assails same-sex unions in Christmas address to clergy
Jaime Jansen
December 22, 2006 03:18:00 pm

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday condemned proposed Italian legislation that would recognize civil unions for unmarried couples, including same-sex couples. The Pope, speaking in a Christmas address to the Rome clergy, said...

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News Italy prosecutors probing death of man who sought euthanasia
Italy prosecutors probing death of man who sought euthanasia
Jaime Jansen
December 22, 2006 02:46:00 pm

Italian prosecutors have begun an investigation into the death of Piergiorgio Welby , a man who suffered from muscular dystrophy and sought the right to die by euthanasia. Welby's quest to die became a nation-wide debate after...

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News Group decries human rights plight in ‘malfunctioning’ Asian democracies
Group decries human rights plight in ‘malfunctioning’ Asian democracies
Jaime Jansen
December 22, 2006 02:08:00 pm

Human rights abuses have worsened in countries around Asia due to authoritarian developments in "malfunctioning" democracies, according to a report by the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) released Thursday....

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News New Massachusetts governor to nix local immigration enforcement deal
New Massachusetts governor to nix local immigration enforcement deal
Jaime Jansen
December 22, 2006 01:41:00 pm

Massachusetts Governor-elect Deval Patrick said Thursday he will rescind an agreement with the federal government allowing Massachusetts state troopers to detain illegal immigrants found or located while the troopers are performing their general duties. The agreement [JURIST...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed Immigration and Nationality Act into law, ending country quotas

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, standing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The Act ordered the elimination of the national origins quota system established in 1882 in favor of a worldwide quota blind to national origin. Immigration was redistributed by pooling unused quotas and making them available on a first-come, first-served basis to oversubscribed nations. Learn more about the 1965 Act and its aftermath.

Germany reunified

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