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News Federal judge allows Ohio executions to proceed
Federal judge allows Ohio executions to proceed
Jerry Votava
April 6, 2012 04:15:19 pm

Judge Gregory Frost of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Wednesday denied a motion for an injunction to delay the execution of Mark Wiles. Frost, who had previously stayed the executions of...

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News Federal judge approves $25 billion mortgage foreclosure settlement
Federal judge approves $25 billion mortgage foreclosure settlement
Jerry Votava
April 6, 2012 04:14:19 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia has approved a $25 billion settlement agreement to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses. The settlement was between US Attorney General Eric...

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News Pennsylvania high court rejects final Mumia appeal
Pennsylvania high court rejects final Mumia appeal
Jerry Votava
April 4, 2012 08:28:42 am

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal , a former member of the Black Panthers who was convicted of killing a police officer in Philadelphia...

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News Judge strikes down Louisiana law requiring some convicted prostitutes to register as sex offenders
Judge strikes down Louisiana law requiring some convicted prostitutes to register as sex offenders
Jerry Votava
March 30, 2012 08:05:58 pm

Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Thursday issued a ruling striking down the Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation law, which labels persons...

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News New Hampshire House votes to ban abortions after 20 weeks
New Hampshire House votes to ban abortions after 20 weeks
Jerry Votava
March 30, 2012 02:10:26 pm

The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would prohibit abortion procedures to be performed after the 20th week of pregnancy. The bill, formerly titled "The...

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Federal judge dismisses charges against US militia group
Jerry Votava
March 28, 2012 08:45:23 am

Judge Victoria Roberts of the US District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday issued an order dismissing the case against Hutaree militia members before it was submitted...

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Holder expands use of data in terrorism investigations
Jerry Votava
March 23, 2012 04:07:22 pm

US Attorney General Eric Holder signed new guidelines on Thursday for the use of information not related to terrorism activities by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) . The NCTC is permitted to gather data on...

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FDA ordered to continue proceedings that could ban antibiotics from livestock feed
Jerry Votava
March 23, 2012 03:05:01 pm

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday requiring the agency to initiate withdrawal proceedings that could lead...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on life sentences for juveniles convicted of homicide
Supreme Court hears arguments on life sentences for juveniles convicted of homicide
Jerry Votava
March 21, 2012 08:32:43 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the cases of Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs on whether the imposition of a life-without-parole sentence on a 14-year-old child...

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March 16, 2012 12:52:14 pm

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances expressed concern on Wednesday over the state of enforced disappearances in Mexico. The Working Group, a panel of five independent human rights experts, found a "chronic...

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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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