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News EU lifts travel ban on Belarus president
EU lifts travel ban on Belarus president
Kiely Lewandowski
October 13, 2008 12:00:00 pm

The European Union Monday temporarily suspended its travel ban on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and several other Belarussian officials following the first high-level talks between Belarus and the EU in four years. A...

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News Thailand appeals court drops treason charges against opposition activists
Thailand appeals court drops treason charges against opposition activists
Kiely Lewandowski
October 9, 2008 01:03:00 pm

Thailand's Court of Appeal Thursday reduced insurrection charges against nine People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) activists following this week's violent clashes between police and PAD protesters . The court dismissed treason charges against the...

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News Second Circuit endorses test for special needs educational placement
Second Circuit endorses test for special needs educational placement
Kiely Lewandowski
October 9, 2008 12:11:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Thursday adopted a fact-specific test for determining whether a disabled student has been placed in the 'least restrictive environment' as required by the Individuals with Disabilities...

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News Citigroup, Wachovia, Wells Fargo agree to merger litigation freeze
Citigroup, Wachovia, Wells Fargo agree to merger litigation freeze
Kiely Lewandowski
October 6, 2008 06:46:00 pm

Citigroup Inc., Wachovia Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. announced Monday that they had reached an agreement to freeze litigation activity until at least noon Wednesday. The agreement follows a weekend of legal maneuvering,...

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News Delayed ICTY war crimes trial of former Yugoslav army chief begins
Delayed ICTY war crimes trial of former Yugoslav army chief begins
Kiely Lewandowski
October 2, 2008 01:33:00 pm

The trial of former Yugoslav army chief of staff and general Momcilo Perisic began Thursday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. The trial was scheduled to commence...

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News Poland ex-leader testifies martial law was ‘lesser evil’
Poland ex-leader testifies martial law was ‘lesser evil’
Kiely Lewandowski
October 2, 2008 12:31:00 pm

Former Polish leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski testified Thursday at the resumption of his trial that he had no choice but to impose martial law on Poland in 1981. Jaruzelski,...

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News New Ecuador constitution approved in national referendum
New Ecuador constitution approved in national referendum
Kiely Lewandowski
September 29, 2008 12:09:00 pm

In a national referendum on Sunday, Ecuadorean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution which consolidates and significantly broadens the powers held by leftist President Rafael Correa . The new constitution gives...

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News Macedonia parliament revokes immunity of two ethnic Albanian MPs
Macedonia parliament revokes immunity of two ethnic Albanian MPs
Kiely Lewandowski
September 29, 2008 11:23:00 am

The Assembly of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Saturday revoked two lawmakers' prosecutorial immunity for crimes allegedly committed during the country's 2001 ethnic conflict. Hajrula Misini and Hisen Dzemaili , both members of...

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News Nebraska lawmakers call parental ‘safe haven’ law too broad
Nebraska lawmakers call parental ‘safe haven’ law too broad
Kiely Lewandowski
September 26, 2008 10:45:00 am

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) declared Thursday that leaving a child at a hospital does not constitute per se termination of parents' legal rights. Nebraska's safe haven law (LB 157) , which...

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News Federal Circuit rules against Lucent in $1.5 billion patent infringement appeal
Federal Circuit rules against Lucent in $1.5 billion patent infringement appeal
Kiely Lewandowski
September 26, 2008 07:42:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed a district court's grant of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) to Microsoft Corp. in a suit involving alleged infringement...

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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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