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News Pentagon files new charges against 3 Guantanamo detainees
Pentagon files new charges against 3 Guantanamo detainees
Andrew Gilmore
May 30, 2008 03:59:00 pm

US Department of Defense prosecutors brought new charges against three detainees being held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday. Jabran al-Qathani, Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi, and Algerian Sufyian Barhoumi are...

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News Texas Vioxx appeal ruling [TX CA]
Texas Vioxx appeal ruling [TX CA]
May 30, 2008 03:41:00 pm

Merck v. Ernst, Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals, May 29, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion...

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News Brazil high court upholds stem cell research law
Brazil high court upholds stem cell research law
Andrew Gilmore
May 30, 2008 03:12:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Brazil Thursday ruled 6-5 that a 2005 law allowing embryonic stem cell research is constitutional, rejecting a challenge by the country's attorney general that it infringed on the...

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News Japan party introduces bill to compensate Korean, Taiwanese war criminals
Japan party introduces bill to compensate Korean, Taiwanese war criminals
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 30, 2008 12:49:00 pm

An opposition party in Japan has introduced a bill in Japan's House of Representatives that would provide compensation for Korean and Taiwanese nationals convicted of war crimes committed while working for...

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News Anti-Guantanamo protesters convicted for illegal Supreme Court demonstration
Anti-Guantanamo protesters convicted for illegal Supreme Court demonstration
Deirdre Jurand
May 30, 2008 12:27:00 pm

A Washington DC Superior Court found 34 members of anti-war activism group Witness Against Torture guilty Thursday on misdemeanor charges of illegal protesting. Police arrested 71 group members at a protest in front of the...

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Germany justice minister defends Volkswagen anti-takeover law
Andrew Gilmore
May 30, 2008 12:22:00 pm

German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries Thursday deflected the European Commission's criticism of proposed legislation that would preserve the power of the German state of Lower Saxony to block major business decisions...

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News Vioxx jury awards overturned on appeal in Texas, New Jersey
Vioxx jury awards overturned on appeal in Texas, New Jersey
Deirdre Jurand
May 30, 2008 11:30:00 am

A Texas state appeals court Thursday overturned a jury verdict against pharmaceutical giant Merck concerning a death allegedly caused by painkiller Vioxx . The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals reversed ...

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Former Guantanamo prosecutor says DOD punished him for Hamdan testimony
Deirdre Jurand
May 30, 2008 10:19:00 am

The former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay alleges that the US Department of Defense (DOD) retaliated against him for giving testimony at the pre-trial hearing of detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan ...

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Pentagon dismisses judge in Khadr military commission trial
Andrew Gilmore
May 30, 2008 10:11:00 am

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday dismissed the military judge presiding over the military commission trial of Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr . No explanation was given for the dismissal of...

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Turkish court rules GLBT rights group name is immoral
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 30, 2008 10:09:00 am

A Turkish court Thursday ordered the closure of a prominent gay rights group, finding that the name of Lambda Istanbul Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transvestites Solidarity Association is contrary to Turkish morality because it includes...

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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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