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News Maldives ex-president violates travel ban, fails to appear in court
Maldives ex-president violates travel ban, fails to appear in court
Dan Taglioli
October 1, 2012 11:23:16 am

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on Monday violated a court-ordered travel ban when he left the capital city of Male on what was supposed to be the first day of his now-postponed trial for abuse of...

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News Panama legislature passes copyright law with heavy fines for violators
Panama legislature passes copyright law with heavy fines for violators
Dan Taglioli
September 28, 2012 11:02:08 am

The National Assembly of Panama on Wednesday approved a controversial new copyright law that allows authorities to fine infringers without a trial or civil lawsuit. The bill would grant broad...

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News Arizona to appeal federal injunction on portion of state immigration law
Arizona to appeal federal injunction on portion of state immigration law
Dan Taglioli
September 28, 2012 09:57:05 am

Lawyers for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Thursday announced the state's plan to appeal a preliminary injunction currently blocking the provision of the controversial Arizona immigration law that criminalizes the harboring and transportation of...

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News Federal judge rejects challenge to Colorado ballot identification process
Federal judge rejects challenge to Colorado ballot identification process
Dan Taglioli
September 24, 2012 12:33:51 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colorado on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an elections transparency group aiming to prevent Colorado counties from using election ballots that have identifying...

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UN refugee agency issues new guidelines on detention of asylum-seekers
Dan Taglioli
September 24, 2012 11:11:21 am

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday issued new international guidelines regarding the detention of asylum-seekers. The new guidelines were presented amid statements of concern over the growing...

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France Constitutional Council rejects national ban on bullfighting
Dan Taglioli
September 21, 2012 08:03:14 pm

The Constitutional Council of France on Friday rejected a challenge to the bullfighting exception contained in the animal cruelty provisions of the country's criminal code. Article 521-1 of the Criminal Code provides for two...

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Trinidad and Tobago Justice Minister fired over judicial procedure law
Dan Taglioli
September 21, 2012 10:15:54 am

Trinidad and Tobago Justice Minister Herbert Philip Volney was removed from office Thursday on allegations that he had deceived the country's government regarding a controversial law that established a new system of pre-trial proceedings relating to indictable...

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Myanmar announces amnesty for 514 prisoners
Dan Taglioli
September 17, 2012 12:16:24 pm

Myanmar officials on Monday announced amnesty for 514 prisoners. The Ministry of Information did not identify the prisoners who will be freed, but activists have identified several political detainees and foreigners slated to be released [AP...

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Bangladesh urged to reform personal laws discriminating against women
Dan Taglioli
September 17, 2012 11:13:09 am

Bangladesh's personal laws governing marriage, separation and divorce overtly discriminate against women, according to a 109-page report published Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . "Will I Get My Dues ... Before I Die?": Harm to...

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DOJ appeals injunction of indefinite detention law
Dan Taglioli
September 14, 2012 10:55:23 am

The US Department of Justice on Friday filed an appeal of this week's order by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that permanently enjoined a law...

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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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