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News Turkish constitutional court to hear bid to ban ruling party
Turkish constitutional court to hear bid to ban ruling party
Caitlin Price
March 31, 2008 02:19:00 pm

The Constitutional Court of Turkey voted 11-0 Monday to hear a bid to disband the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) , days after a warning by the EU Enlargement...

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News Supreme Court takes two First Amendment cases
Supreme Court takes two First Amendment cases
Alexis Unkovic
March 31, 2008 02:03:00 pm

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear two cases involving the First Amendment Monday, including Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (07-665) , in which the Court will...

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News Zimbabwe justice minister voted out, other election results delayed
Zimbabwe justice minister voted out, other election results delayed
Caitlin Price
March 31, 2008 01:03:00 pm

Zimbabwean Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Public Affairs Minister Chen Chimutengwende were confirmed ousted Monday as returns came in from Saturday's general elections in the country, but other election results continue to be delayed,...

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News Proposed US financial regulatory overhaul would merge SEC, CFTC
Proposed US financial regulatory overhaul would merge SEC, CFTC
Joshua Pantesco
March 31, 2008 12:26:00 pm

US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. unveiled a plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system and merge key federal administrative agencies in remarks at a press conference in Washington Monday. The executive...

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News Supreme Court rules for Delaware in state water boundary dispute
Supreme Court rules for Delaware in state water boundary dispute
Jeannie Shawl
March 31, 2008 10:04:00 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that New Jersey and Delaware have "overlapping authority" to control "extraordinary" construction projects along the Delaware River. The Court's decision came in New Jersey v. Delaware [Medill case...

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News Myanmar draft constitution entrenches military, blocks Suu Kyi: report
Myanmar draft constitution entrenches military, blocks Suu Kyi: report
Joshua Pantesco
March 31, 2008 09:38:00 am

The draft constitution of Myanmar , slated to be put before the country's citizens in a May referendum, contains a provision reserving 25 percent of parliamentary seats for the military, and another...

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News Freed Chaudhry launches Pakistan campaign for reinstatement of ousted judges
Freed Chaudhry launches Pakistan campaign for reinstatement of ousted judges
Joshua Pantesco
March 31, 2008 08:18:00 am

Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry , who was released from virtual house arrest last week on the orders of recently-elected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani , returned to his hometown of Quetta...

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Bangladesh ex-PM appears in court to face graft charges after hospital release
Devin Montgomery
March 30, 2008 03:08:00 pm

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appeared in court Sunday, shortly after being released from hospital care for severe ear and eye conditions, to face charges that she received approximately $440,000 in...

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News Alleged Equatorial Guinea coup plotter accuses Thatcher of coup involvement
Alleged Equatorial Guinea coup plotter accuses Thatcher of coup involvement
Benjamin Klein
March 30, 2008 03:04:00 pm

British national Simon Mann , accused of participating in an alleged coup attempt against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004, has accused Sir Mark Thatcher of...

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Egypt Muslim Brotherhood arrests threaten local elections: HRW
Eric Firkel
March 30, 2008 11:29:00 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday criticized Egypt for arresting over 800 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood , including 148 candidates slated to run in local council elections scheduled for April 8....

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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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