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News Supreme Court takes DNA evidence and injured worker cases
Supreme Court takes DNA evidence and injured worker cases
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
November 3, 2008 10:45:00 am

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases Monday. In District Attorney’s Office v. Osborne the Court will consider whether a defendant has the right, under...

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News US military commission jury convicts alleged al Qaeda media director
US military commission jury convicts alleged al Qaeda media director
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
November 3, 2008 09:59:00 am

A US military commission jury has convicted alleged al Qaeda media director Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul of conspiring with al Qaeda, soliciting murder, and providing material support for terrorism. The jury reached...

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News Second Guantanamo detainee goes on trial before military commission
Second Guantanamo detainee goes on trial before military commission
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
October 27, 2008 10:48:00 am

Alleged al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul went on trial Monday before a military commission at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Al Bahlul is only the second detainee to go on trial...

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News Bulgaria court begins criminal proceedings against suspected EU embezzlers
Bulgaria court begins criminal proceedings against suspected EU embezzlers
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
October 20, 2008 05:41:00 pm

A Bulgarian court on Monday began criminal proceedings against nine people accused of embezzling millions of dollars from European Union (EU) aid funds. The defendants are accused of stealing 14 million leva ($9.6 million) from funds...

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News Supreme Court takes identity fraud case
Supreme Court takes identity fraud case
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
October 20, 2008 10:49:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in the case of Flores-Figueroa v. United States (08-108) . The Court will consider whether the government must show that...

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News Trial begins for Fort Dix plot suspects
Trial begins for Fort Dix plot suspects
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
October 20, 2008 10:11:00 am

Opening arguments began Monday in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey in the criminal trial of five men accused of plotting to kill US soldiers at Fort Dix . The accused, all foreign-born...

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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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