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News Zimbabwe court detains activists on treason charges
Zimbabwe court detains activists on treason charges
Ashley Hileman
March 7, 2011 02:42:32 pm

A Zimbabwe magistrate court on Monday ordered six of the 45 activists arrested in Harare last month detained on charges of treason, releasing the remaining 39. The six activists not released today will remain detained and face trial [CNN...

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News Supreme Court eases time limit on habeas petitions
Supreme Court eases time limit on habeas petitions
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 7, 2011 01:40:12 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Wall v. Kholi that a defendant's plea for leniency tolls the statute of limitations for filing a federal...

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News Georgia Supreme Court upholds voter ID law
Georgia Supreme Court upholds voter ID law
Ashley Hileman
March 7, 2011 01:22:18 pm

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday upheld a state law that requires voters to present one of six government-issued photo identifications in order to vote. The Democratic Party of Georgia brought the suit...

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News Supreme Court rules against government in Freedom of Information case
Supreme Court rules against government in Freedom of Information case
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 7, 2011 12:36:44 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 8-1 in Milner v. Department of the Navy that the government may not withhold certain information under the Freedom of...

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News Supreme Court allows death row inmate to access DNA testing
Supreme Court allows death row inmate to access DNA testing
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 7, 2011 11:16:34 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 in Skinner v. Switzer that a convicted prisoner seeking access to biological evidence for DNA testing may assert a...

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France ex-president Chirac goes on trial for corruption
Erin Bock
March 7, 2011 11:16:32 am

A French court on Monday began the trial of former president Jacques Chirac but immediately suspended proceedings. The trial was suspended in light of claims made by co-defendant Remy Chardon, Chirac's former...

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Supreme Court to rule on copyright protections for foreign works
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
March 7, 2011 10:11:54 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Golan v. Holder to determine the copyright status of foreign works that used to be in the public...

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Third Circuit rejects Second Amendment rights for felons
Daniel Makosky
March 6, 2011 12:58:45 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday ruled that barring convicted felons from possessing firearms does not infringe upon their constitutional rights. Attorneys for James Barton, previously convicted on drug and...

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Utah legislature approves new version of Arizona-style immigration bill
Carrie Schimizzi
March 6, 2011 12:18:51 pm

The Utah House and Senate on Friday approved a new Arizona-style immigration law. The Utah Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act replaces the older version of the law that had lost...

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News Washington approves bill recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages
Washington approves bill recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages
Maureen Cosgrove
March 5, 2011 03:05:34 pm

The Washington House of Representatives on Friday voted 58-39 to approve a bill recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages as legal domestic partnerships. House Bill 1649 amends current law that recognizes out-of-state domestic partnerships and civil unions, but...

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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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