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News US, Russia leaders look ahead to new nuclear arms reduction treaty
US, Russia leaders look ahead to new nuclear arms reduction treaty
Ann Riley
March 14, 2010 09:37:00 am

In a telephone conversation Saturday, US President Barack Obama and Russia President Dmitry Medvedev approved of progress towards the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty since 1991. Wrapping up talks on the treaty to...

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News Serbia police arrest 9 suspected of Kosovo war crimes
Serbia police arrest 9 suspected of Kosovo war crimes
Daniel Makosky
March 13, 2010 04:47:00 pm

Spokesperson for Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric Saturday announced the arrest of nine individuals suspected of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war . The nine, members of...

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News Sweden, Turkey foreign ministers condemn Armenian genocide resolution
Sweden, Turkey foreign ministers condemn Armenian genocide resolution
Daniel Makosky
March 13, 2010 03:35:00 pm

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Saturday jointly denounced the Swedish Parliament's Thursday passage of a resolution recognizing the Ottoman Empire's killing of Armenians between 1915 and...

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News Bosnia court indicts Serb police commander for alleged role in Srebrenica massacre
Bosnia court indicts Serb police commander for alleged role in Srebrenica massacre
David Manes
March 13, 2010 10:49:00 am

The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court indicted the former Serb commander of a special police brigade Saturday for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian civil war [JURIST news...

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News France court orders far-right anti-Islamic posters removed
France court orders far-right anti-Islamic posters removed
Gabriela Forbes
March 13, 2010 10:24:00 am

A court of first instance in Marseilles Friday ordered that anti-Islamic campaign posters put up by the far-right National Front be taken down . The posters ,...

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News California DA files consumer protection suit against Toyota
California DA files consumer protection suit against Toyota
David Manes
March 13, 2010 10:09:00 am

The California Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) filed a consumer protection suit against car manufacturer Toyota on Friday, alleging that the company knowingly sold vehicles with acceleration defects. The suit seeks up to...

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News Autism vaccine link rulings [US Fed Ct Claims]
Autism vaccine link rulings [US Fed Ct Claims]
March 12, 2010 05:41:00 pm

Mead v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Case No. 03-215V, King v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Case No. 03-584V, Dwyer v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Case No. 03-1202V, US Federal Court of Claims, March 12,...

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News Federal court rejects claims that thimerosal vaccines caused children’s autism
Federal court rejects claims that thimerosal vaccines caused children’s autism
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 12, 2010 04:43:00 pm

Three special masters sitting in the US Federal Court of Claims Friday rejected three compensation actions brought in a coordinated omnibus proceeding by families of autistic children who had argued that...

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News UN Myanmar expert says some government rights violations may be war crimes
UN Myanmar expert says some government rights violations may be war crimes
Amelia Mathias
March 12, 2010 03:11:00 pm

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana released a report Friday criticizing the government of Myanmar for long-standing human rights abuses and said some of those might qualify as war...

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News Taiwan justice minister resigns over death penalty dispute
Taiwan justice minister resigns over death penalty dispute
Amelia Mathias
March 12, 2010 02:03:00 pm

Taiwanese Justice Minister Wang Ching-feng resigned Thursday in defense of her position against the death penalty. Though Taiwan has not executed a criminal since 2005, Wang said she would not sign the execution warrants 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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