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News Third Circuit rules media has no right to report from polling places
Third Circuit rules media has no right to report from polling places
Brandon Gatto
January 17, 2013 12:05:57 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that members of the media do not have the right to report from, or take photos or video within, Pennsylvania polling places. While PG...

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News Dutch court rules Samsung tablets do not infringe Apple design
Dutch court rules Samsung tablets do not infringe Apple design
Brandon Gatto
January 16, 2013 03:16:47 pm

The District Court of The Hague on Wednesday ruled that the designs of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, 8.9, and 7.7 produced by Samsung Electronics do not infringe designs patented by Apple . In deciding whether Samsung's...

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News Russia court denies sentencing deferral for imprisoned feminist rocker
Russia court denies sentencing deferral for imprisoned feminist rocker
Brandon Gatto
January 16, 2013 02:44:52 pm

The City Court of Berezniki, Russia on Wednesday denied the appeal of an imprisoned member of the feminist rock band Pussy Riot to defer serving her sentence for hooliganism until...

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News Civil rights groups challenge New Hampshire education tax program
Civil rights groups challenge New Hampshire education tax program
Brandon Gatto
January 10, 2013 12:15:31 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire (ACLU) and Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) on Wednesday challenged the constitutionality of a tuition tax-credit program designed to divert taxpayer money to...

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News DOJ asks DC Circuit to reverse terrorism conviction of al Qaeda media director
DOJ asks DC Circuit to reverse terrorism conviction of al Qaeda media director
Brandon Gatto
January 10, 2013 11:43:57 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to reverse the terrorism conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul , the media...

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Supreme Court rules trademark challenge against Nike moot
Brandon Gatto
January 9, 2013 03:51:27 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc. that Nike's covenant not to enforce a trademark against Already's existing products and any future "colorable imitations" moots Already's action to have the...

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Federal judge declares NYPD ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy unconstitutional
Brandon Gatto
January 9, 2013 02:56:53 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday ordered the New York Police Department (NYPD) to cease using a "stop-and-frisk" practice outside of apartment buildings in...

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Ghana opposition party to challenge presidential election
Brandon Gatto
December 12, 2012 04:27:50 pm

The New Patriotic Party of Ghana (NPP) on Tuesday announced its plan to challenge the country's presidential election results after alleging that the victory of incumbent president John Dramani Mahama was due to...

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Seventh Circuit strikes down Illinois ban on concealed carry
Brandon Gatto
December 12, 2012 09:10:18 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday invalidated a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois, ultimately deciding that the law is unconstitutional. Relying on the US Supreme Court ...

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Mali PM forced to resign after arrest by junta forces
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December 11, 2012 02:57:50 pm

The prime minister of Mali , Cheick Modibo Diarra, was forced to resign on state television Tuesday after junta soldiers arrested him for attempting to leave the country in light of the ongoing humanitarian crisis threatening 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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