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News NY AG to file bid-rigging suit against Universal Life
NY AG to file bid-rigging suit against Universal Life
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 12:49:00 pm

NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to file suit Friday or Monday against health insurance consulting firm Universal Life Resources, stemming from a seven-month investigation into bid-rigging in the insurance industry. United Policy Holders, a consumer insurance group,...

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News ACLU challenges Boston airport security program over alleged racial profiling
ACLU challenges Boston airport security program over alleged racial profiling
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 12:20:00 pm

The ACLU has sued MA police and port authority over a new security program at Boston's Logan International Airport, which the civil rights group claims leads to racial profiling. In the suit filed Wednesday, the ACLU argues that the...

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News WA governor race still undecided, legal action possible
WA governor race still undecided, legal action possible
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 11:19:00 am

Ten days after the last ballots were cast, the Washington state governor's race remained too close to call Friday, and the state Democratic party said it was considering options including legal action. State officials still have thousands of provisional...

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News Real IRA leader loses legal aid in civil suit by relatives of bombing victims
Real IRA leader loses legal aid in civil suit by relatives of bombing victims
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 10:45:00 am

A UK judge Friday upheld the withdrawal of legal aid funding for Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt in his High Court case against relatives of victims in the Omagh bombing. The Legal Services Commission, the UK public legal services...

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News Human rights group sues two former Somali officials living in US
Human rights group sues two former Somali officials living in US
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 10:12:00 am

A human rights group has sued two former high-ranking Somali officials currently living in the US, alleging that the two took part in torture and killings in their home country during the 1980s. San Francisco-based Center for Justice and...

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News Gay rights groups to move cautiously against state bans on gay marriage
Gay rights groups to move cautiously against state bans on gay marriage
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 09:53:00 am

Gay rights groups have adopted a cautious legal approach to challenging 11 state constitutional bans on gay marriage adopted by referendum in the Nov. 2 elections. Many of the groups fear that an all-out legal assault on the new...

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News Dutch parliament seeks limits on employment of imams
Dutch parliament seeks limits on employment of imams
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 09:14:00 am

The Dutch parliament (official site in Dutch) Friday asked the government to draft laws restricting the employment of imams at Dutch mosques only to those who have studied Islam in the country. A vote on the new law was...

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News UN nuclear agency cites South Korea for secret tests
UN nuclear agency cites South Korea for secret tests
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 08:57:00 am

The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that South Korea conducted illegal nuclear tests in the 1980s and 2000, in which it secretly extracted or enriched small amounts of plutonium and uranium. Although the tests did not produce enough...

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News Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Friday, Nov. 12
Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Friday, Nov. 12
Chris Buell
November 12, 2004 07:45:00 am

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, November 12.New Mexico is expected to complete its count of provisional ballots today, as required by NM Stat. Ann. s. 1-13-13. The NM...

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News Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Thursday, Nov. 11
Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Thursday, Nov. 11
Chris Buell
November 11, 2004 07:00:00 am

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, November 11.Today is Veteran's Day, a US federal holiday. Federal courts and most state courts are closed.The US House and Senate are in...

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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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