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News New Jersey judge denies state’s motion to halt same-sex marriages
New Jersey judge denies state’s motion to halt same-sex marriages
Lauren Laing
October 11, 2013 12:17:39 pm

A New Jersey judge on Thursday denied the state's motion to stay her September 27 order to begin permitting same-sex couples to enter civil marriages on October 21. On October 1 the state requested that...

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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday applied for a permanent stay of the proceedings in his case before the International Criminal Court (ICC) , claiming that a fair trial...

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Charles Taylor to serve 50-year sentence in UK
Lauren Laing
October 10, 2013 11:32:03 am

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes in the UK, according to a written statement to Parliament from the UK Ministry of Justice [official...

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Bosnia court reopens trial on war crimes convicts
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The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday reopened criminal proceedings for a man convicted of war crimes in 2006, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in July that his...

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A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday struck down a state law that criminalizes retailers for imposing surcharges on customers who pay by credit card. Under...

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October 3, 2013 11:21:47 am

Malaysia's proposed amendments to the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 , which would reinstate detention without trial for certain individuals with criminal histories, are a "huge step backwards," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday....

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October 3, 2013 10:45:04 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a district court ruling that interpreted a settlement agreement between BP and the class of parties injured in the Deepwater Horizon...

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Amnesty International UK (AI) on Thursday urged Lithuania to reopen its investigation into the country's involvement in the US-led rendition and secret detention programs after a victim came forward with new information. Redress ...

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September 27, 2013 11:23:59 am

The UN said Friday that inspectors returned to Syria on Wednesday to investigate seven chemical weapon attacks, including three that occurred after the August 21 incident in Damascus . The investigation is set to be finished by Monday,...

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September 26, 2013 11:21:57 am

The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Thursday rejected an appeal by former Liberian president Charles Taylor of his convictions for war crimes committed during the decade-long...

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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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