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News New Orleans judge delays prisoner release reviews
New Orleans judge delays prisoner release reviews
Alexis Unkovic
September 1, 2006 10:16:00 am

New Orleans Parish criminal court Judge Arthur Hunter Thursday deferred a threatened review of prisoner records in anticipation of release which he earlier said he would begin on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane...

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UN Security Council adopts resolution to send peacekeepers to Darfur
Alexis Unkovic
September 1, 2006 09:13:00 am

The UN Security Council passed a resolution Thursday authorizing the deployment of UN peacekeeping troops to the Darfur region of Sudan under the authority of the current UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS)...

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News UK judge lets police hold air terror suspects one more week without charge
UK judge lets police hold air terror suspects one more week without charge
Alexis Unkovic
August 30, 2006 09:05:00 pm

Scotland Yard received a final one-week extension from a High Court judge in London Wednesday, permitting British police to detain and question five British Muslim men suspected in connection with an alleged terror plot to...

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News UN humanitarian chief accuses Israel of ‘immoral’ use of cluster bombs
UN humanitarian chief accuses Israel of ‘immoral’ use of cluster bombs
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August 30, 2006 08:32:00 pm

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland condemned Israel Wednesday for its "immoral" use of cluster bombs in the most recent Middle East conflict [JURIST news...

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Marines accused in Hamdania killing face preliminary hearings
Alexis Unkovic
August 30, 2006 07:53:00 pm

The US Marine Corps Wednesday held separate hearings preliminary to possible court-martial at Camp Pendleton , California, for two of the eight American soldiers, including seven Marines and one Navy corpsman, charged with the...

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Japan court rejects World War II sex slaves lawsuit
Alexis Unkovic
August 30, 2006 07:12:00 pm

A district court in Tokyo Wednesday dismissed an action filed on behalf of eight Chinese women who claim they were forced to act as sex slaves, or "comfort women" , for Japanese soldiers during World War...

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Iraqi lawyer related to Haditha victims blasts $2,500 US ‘compensation’ payments
Alexis Unkovic
June 4, 2006 10:54:00 am

An Iraqi lawyer related to several Iraqi civilians who were among the 24 allegedly killed by US Marines in Haditha last November denounced the US military Saturday via videotape, claiming US "compensation money" of $2,500 per victim...

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June 4, 2006 10:08:00 am

The Parliament of Montenegro issued a declaration of independence Saturday on the basis of the May 21 referendum in which...

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UK court refuses further appeals in Hicks citizenship case
Alexis Unkovic
May 6, 2006 10:00:00 am

Lawyers for Australian terror suspect David Hicks said Saturday that Britain's Court of Appeals will not allow further appeals from the British government in Hicks' attempt to obtain UK citizenship. Hicks, currently detained at...

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May 6, 2006 09:12:00 am

British police have said that Anjem Choudary and Abdul Muhid now face criminal charges stemming from their roles in the February 3 demonstration outside the Danish embassy in London against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet...

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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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