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News 20 states challenge ACA as unconstitutional
20 states challenge ACA as unconstitutional
Patrick Sherry
February 27, 2018 02:39:29 pm

A coalition of 20 states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday alleging that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is...

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News Supreme Court holds detained immigrants have no right to periodic bond hearings
Supreme Court holds detained immigrants have no right to periodic bond hearings
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
February 27, 2018 02:36:28 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday held 5-3 that Chapter 12 of Title 8 of the US Code does not afford detained immigrants, including permanent residents, "the right to periodic bond hearings" and that...

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News Federal judge bans revocation of deportation protections program
Federal judge bans revocation of deportation protections program
Raven Moore
February 27, 2018 02:21:03 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Monday banned the Trump administration from revoking an Obama-era deportation protections program for immigrants that were brought to the country illegally as children. This ruling...

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News Germany high court allows cities to restrict diesel vehicles
Germany high court allows cities to restrict diesel vehicles
Sean Rohtla
February 27, 2018 01:45:57 pm

Germany's Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled Tuesday that cities have the right to restrict the use of some diesel vehicles based on emissions. The ruling comes from decisions in two separate...

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News Supreme Court holds Congress may retroactively take property into trust for Native American tribes
Supreme Court holds Congress may retroactively take property into trust for Native American tribes
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
February 27, 2018 12:50:10 pm

A plurality of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday held that Congress possesses the legislative powers to retroactively immunize the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) from suit for taking property into trust for the benefit of...

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News Federal judge dismisses challenge to federal marijuana prohibition
Federal judge dismisses challenge to federal marijuana prohibition
Lindsay Offutt
February 27, 2018 11:02:16 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Schedule I classification for marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act . Judge Alvin Hellerstein granted...

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News Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to EPA rule
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to EPA rule
Lindsay Offutt
February 27, 2018 10:09:28 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) interpretation of the permit requirement codified in the Clean Water Act (CWA) The question for the...

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News China Communist Party proposes constitutional amendment to extend presidential term
China Communist Party proposes constitutional amendment to extend presidential term
Akira Tomlinson
February 27, 2018 09:06:34 am

The Communist Party of China (CCP) Central Committee on Sunday announced plans to abolish the presidential term limits, which would permit President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely. The CCP proposed removing Article 79 from...

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News UN group: detention for asylum seekers should be last resort
UN group: detention for asylum seekers should be last resort
Elizabeth Lowman
February 27, 2018 08:07:47 am

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Monday that detaining migrants and asylum-seekers violated international law unless it is done as a last resort. In the Revised Deliberation Number 5 released at the...

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Supreme Court hears arguments in union case
Elizabeth Lowman
February 27, 2018 07:16:29 am

The US Supreme Court heard two oral arguments on Monday. Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31s concerns whether mandatory agency fees violate the First Amendment. The petitioners...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed Immigration and Nationality Act into law, ending country quotas

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, standing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The Act ordered the elimination of the national origins quota system established in 1882 in favor of a worldwide quota blind to national origin. Immigration was redistributed by pooling unused quotas and making them available on a first-come, first-served basis to oversubscribed nations. Learn more about the 1965 Act and its aftermath.

Germany reunified

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