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News UK Treasury invokes anti-terrorism law to protect investors in Iceland bank
UK Treasury invokes anti-terrorism law to protect investors in Iceland bank
Andrew Gilmore
October 9, 2008 10:38:00 am

The British government on Wednesday froze nearly $4 billion in UK financial assets held by the failed Icelandic bank Landsbanki , exercising its powers under the 2001 Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act...

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News Russia court extends prison term for former Yukos oil executive now in solitary
Russia court extends prison term for former Yukos oil executive now in solitary
Devin Montgomery
October 9, 2008 07:59:00 am

A Russian court on Wednesday extended the jail term of former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky until February 2009. Khodorkovsky headed the now-bankrupt Yukos Oil Co. and...

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News Philippines rebels, militia could be prosecuted under new US child soldier law: HRW
Philippines rebels, militia could be prosecuted under new US child soldier law: HRW
Devin Montgomery
October 9, 2008 07:58:00 am

Leaders of both Philippine rebel groups and government militias could be held responsible for the use of child soldiers under a new US law, according to a Wednesday statement by Human Rights Watch ....

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News DC Circuit stays Uighurs release from Guantanamo
DC Circuit stays Uighurs release from Guantanamo
Joe Shaulis
October 9, 2008 07:37:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Wednesday issued a temporary stay of a district court order requiring the federal government to release 17 Uighur detainees from the military prison...

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News Rwandan genocide suspect transferred from Germany to ICTR
Rwandan genocide suspect transferred from Germany to ICTR
Eric Firkel
October 9, 2008 07:34:00 am

German authorities Wednesday transferred custody of Augustin Ngirabatware, a former Rwandan minister suspected of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide , from a facility in Frankfurt to a UN Detention Facility in Arusha, Tanzania. In Tanzania, Ngirabatware awaits...

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Documents show US military feared for detainees’ mental condition
Andrew Gilmore
October 9, 2008 06:37:00 am

US military officers feared for the mental health of alleged terrorism detainees held in isolation in the US, according to documents received through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and released Wednesday by the American...

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News UK troops refusing to detain insurgents due to rights law concerns: US official
UK troops refusing to detain insurgents due to rights law concerns: US official
Andrew Gilmore
October 9, 2008 01:33:00 am

US State Department legal advisor John B. Bellinger III ,told the Guardian newspaper Tuesday that British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are not detaining suspected insurgents in those countries due to concerns...

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UN General Assembly seeks ICJ ruling on Kosovo independence
Steve Czajkowski
October 8, 2008 11:01:00 pm

The UN General Assembly voted Wednesday to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of the unilaterally-proclaimed independence of Kosovo . Seventy-seven member...

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ICTY appeals court affirms conviction of former Serb republic leader
Steve Czajkowski
October 8, 2008 08:45:00 pm

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday affirmed the 2007 conviction of Milan Martic on 16 counts of...

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News Court hearings postponed as financial institutions extend litigation freeze
Court hearings postponed as financial institutions extend litigation freeze
Joe Shaulis
October 8, 2008 05:32:00 pm

Citigroup Inc., Wachovia Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. announced Wednesday that they had extended an agreement to freeze litigation activity through 8 AM Friday. According to Citigroup, the agreement provides for...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First US life insurance company incorporated

On January 11, 1759, America's first life insurance company was incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers was established by Presbyterians to support the families of their ministers. In 1988, the company's name was changed to the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund. The company later became Covenant Life Insurance Company before being acquired by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 2002. Read a history of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund from the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Treaty ended Anglo-American claims, courts in China

On January 11, 1943, the United States and Great Britain relinquished by treaty their extraterritorial claims in China. This abandonment effectively ended the jurisdiction of the extraterritorial United States Court for China (established 1906) and the British Supreme Court in China. Read more about the United States Court for China, which one scholar has called "probably the strangest federal tribunal ever constituted by Congress," in a short online history of the US Ninth Circuit.

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