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News Congressman loses taped phone call leak appeal
Congressman loses taped phone call leak appeal
Andrew Wood
March 28, 2006 03:37:00 pm

A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) violated s. 2511 of US Code Title 18 by disclosing an illegally obtained...

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Bosnia constitutional reform agreement welcomed
Andrew Wood
March 21, 2006 03:57:00 pm

The US has welcomed a weekend agreement by the eight main political parties of Bosnia and Herzegovina on changes to the country's constitution at the end of negotiations that began four months ago...

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Vietnam War Marines deserter could be discharged in a week
Andrew Wood
March 14, 2006 04:38:00 pm

The US Marine Corps said Tuesday that Allen Abney, a Vietnam War deserter who is now a Canadian citizen, will probably be released within a week from Camp Pendleton , California. Abney deserted the Corps and...

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Europe rights court throws out Saddam lawsuit
Andrew Wood
March 14, 2006 03:59:00 pm

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday denied the admissibility of a lawsuit brought by Saddam Hussein against 21 European countries on the grounds that the case fell outside its jurisdiction. Saddam's lawyers had...

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News Federal judge disinclined to grant DOJ access to Google search terms
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Andrew Wood
March 14, 2006 02:59:00 pm

Judge James Ware of the US District Court of the Northern District of California said Tuesday after hearing arguments by Google and US Department of Justice lawyers over a government subpoena of search data that...

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Philippines high court refuses immediate ruling on state of emergency decree
Andrew Wood
February 28, 2006 04:17:00 pm

The Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred a ruling on petitions brought against the state of emergency declared by President Gloria Arroyo last week. Arroyo, who today said the decree...

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Senators express frustration with NSA surveillance program at second hearing
Andrew Wood
February 28, 2006 03:13:00 pm

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee holding a second hearing Tuesday on the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program appeared frustrated by the lack of information released by the Bush administration. Senator Patrick...

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Oregon Supreme Court upholds property compensation law
Andrew Wood
February 21, 2006 03:57:00 pm

The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a controversial property rights compensation law, reversing a circuit court decision and declaring the law constitutional. The law, known as Measure 37 , requires the government...

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Pennsylvania voter ID bill to be vetoed by governor
Andrew Wood
February 21, 2006 03:30:00 pm

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has said he will veto House Bill 1318 , a bill that would require voters to provide identification at the polls in order to vote. Noting that voter turnout in elections is currently...

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Highest New York court rules against Brooklyn clergy abuse victims
Andrew Wood
February 21, 2006 03:07:00 pm

The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn could use the statute of limitations as a defense in two sexual abuse cases. In one case 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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