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News Supreme Court throws out ruling on North Carolina redistricting
Supreme Court throws out ruling on North Carolina redistricting
Alison Sacriponte
April 20, 2015 01:07:56 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday threw out a North Carolina court ruling that upheld Republican-drawn electoral districts for state and congressional lawmakers. The case, Dickson v. Rucho , was remanded to the...

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News Kuwait top court orders opposition leader released on bail
Kuwait top court orders opposition leader released on bail
Brittany Felder
April 20, 2015 12:18:10 pm

Kuwait's supreme court on Monday ordered the release on bail of former opposition leader Musallam al-Barrak , accused of insulting the country's leader. Al-Barrak has a hearing scheduled for May 18 in which the court...

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News Supreme Court declines Rajat Gupta’s insider trading appeal
Supreme Court declines Rajat Gupta’s insider trading appeal
Valerie Howell
April 20, 2015 12:08:37 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in appeal brought by Rajat Gupta, the former director of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc, for his 2012 insider trading conviction. The petition submitted...

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News Egypt court sentences Morsi supporters to death
Egypt court sentences Morsi supporters to death
William Helbling
April 20, 2015 10:57:51 am

An Egyptian Criminal Court in Giza on Monday sentenced 22 people to death for their involvement in the storming of a police station and killing of an officer on the day Mohamed Morsi was overthrown. The defendants are alleged...

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News UN rights expert urges states to strengthen criminal justice systems
UN rights expert urges states to strengthen criminal justice systems
Peter Snyder
April 20, 2015 10:18:12 am

In closing remarks at the 13th UN Crime Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Sunday in Doha, Qatar, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov called on [UN...

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HRW: Egypt mass trial relied on single witness testimony
Dominic Yobbi
April 19, 2015 03:45:49 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday criticized the mass trial of 51 Muslim Brotherhood supporters, claiming that the government presented no evidence of a crime being committed by the men other than the testimony of...

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UN rights experts urge new standards for eliminating violence against children
Dominic Yobbi
April 19, 2015 03:13:35 pm

UN officials congregating at the 13th UN Crime Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Doha, Qatar ,on Saturday called on member states to implement new standards for eliminating violence...

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Egypt court sentences 11 to death over soccer riots
Emelina Perez
April 19, 2015 12:40:08 pm

An Egyptian court has referred 11 men accused of being involved in deadly 2012 soccer riots to the most senior religious official, the final step before imposing a death sentence. The Grand Mufti is scheduled to give his final...

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UN: Afghanistan should strengthen justice system to protect women
Emelina Perez
April 19, 2015 11:58:32 am

Afghanistan must strengthen its criminal justice system to provide protection for women victims of domestic violence, according to a report released Sunday by the the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Office of...

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UN rights office concerned by intensified fighting in Ukraine
Taylor Brailey
April 18, 2015 11:00:42 am

Spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) , Ravina Shamdasani, expressed concern Friday at the "dire human rights situation" in Ukraine after reports of intensified fighting in violation of the...

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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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