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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday,  7 April 2018
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 7 April 2018
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April 7, 2018 12:00:07 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: David Kaye , the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression urged Spain on Friday not to...

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News US Legal News Round Up for Saturday,  7 April 2018
US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 7 April 2018
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April 7, 2018 12:00:03 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Hawaii Governor David Ige signed HB 2739 on Thursday, also known as the Our Choice, Our Care Act. The Attorneys General from 14states, led by...

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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 31 March 2018
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 31 March 2018
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March 31, 2018 12:01:10 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy must stand for trial for charges of corruption and influence the 2007 French presidential election. A judge for the US...

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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 31 March 2018
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March 31, 2018 12:00:09 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US State Department submitted a proposal to the Federal Register on Friday that would require nonimmigrant visa applicants to list their social media identities...

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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 24 March 2018
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 24 March 2018
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March 24, 2018 12:00:09 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The UK Court of Appeal ruled this week that software is not a good, overruling the lower court opinion. UN human rights experts expressed concern [press...

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March 24, 2018 12:00:04 pm

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The Kentucky Senate approved a bill on Thursday that outlaws the use of the dilation and excavation abortion method for patients in their eleventh week of pregnancy...

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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 17 March 2018
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 17 March 2018
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March 17, 2018 12:00:08 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Peru's Congress voted by a wide margin on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for a...

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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Treasury Department imposed new economic sanctions Thursday on 19 Russian individuals and five entities for their interference in the 2016 US election, and a number of other...

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News World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 10 March 2018
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 10 March 2018
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March 10, 2018 12:00:08 pm

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Eleven countries including Japan, Australia, and Canada signed a trade agreement Thursday known as The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) . The Supreme Court of India...

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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: President Trump announced new tariffs Thursday in two separate proclamations, one for imports of steel and one for aluminum . The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday...

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First US life insurance company incorporated

On January 11, 1759, America's first life insurance company was incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers was established by Presbyterians to support the families of their ministers. In 1988, the company's name was changed to the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund. The company later became Covenant Life Insurance Company before being acquired by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 2002. Read a history of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund from the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Treaty ended Anglo-American claims, courts in China

On January 11, 1943, the United States and Great Britain relinquished by treaty their extraterritorial claims in China. This abandonment effectively ended the jurisdiction of the extraterritorial United States Court for China (established 1906) and the British Supreme Court in China. Read more about the United States Court for China, which one scholar has called "probably the strangest federal tribunal ever constituted by Congress," in a short online history of the US Ninth Circuit.

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