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News Rights group urges Hungary to amend new media law
Rights group urges Hungary to amend new media law
LaToya Sawyer
January 14, 2011 02:47:14 pm

Amnesty International (AI) called for Hungary to amend its new media law that has caused outbreaks of public protests in Budapest and Vienna. The new law took effect January 1 and creates the National Media...

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News Canada appeals court rules refusal to marry same-sex couples unconstitutional
Canada appeals court rules refusal to marry same-sex couples unconstitutional
LaToya Sawyer
January 10, 2011 02:38:03 pm

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that refusal by provincial marriage commissioners to marry same-sex couples violates § 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms . The decision invalidates...

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News Milwaukee Catholic diocese to file for bankruptcy citing clergy abuse lawsuits
Milwaukee Catholic diocese to file for bankruptcy citing clergy abuse lawsuits
LaToya Sawyer
January 5, 2011 10:40:58 am

Archbishop Jerome Listecki announced Tuesday that the Archodiocese of Milwaukee will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a result of financial strain from lawsuits over the clergy sex abuse scandals . The...

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News Arizona AG sues Bank of America for mortgage fraud
Arizona AG sues Bank of America for mortgage fraud
LaToya Sawyer
December 18, 2010 10:56:58 am

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard filed a lawsuit against Bank of America (BOA) on Friday for misleading customers in mortgage modification and foreclosure practices. Specifically, the complaint alleges that BOA violated...

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News US pledges support for UN indigenous rights declaration
US pledges support for UN indigenous rights declaration
LaToya Sawyer
December 17, 2010 11:19:43 am

US President Barack Obama announced Thursday that the US will support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People . The declaration, adopted in 2007, is a non-binding treaty outlining the global human rights...

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News Federal judge dismisses challenge to California affirmative action ban
Federal judge dismisses challenge to California affirmative action ban
LaToya Sawyer
December 9, 2010 02:15:15 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday dismissed a challenge to California's affirmative action ban in public university admissions. The ban, approved by voters...

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News Federal judge dismisses health care lawsuit
Federal judge dismisses health care lawsuit
LaToya Sawyer
December 1, 2010 01:44:41 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a provision of the health care reform law requiring all...

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News Iraq court sentences Saddam-era deputy PM Aziz to additional prison term
Iraq court sentences Saddam-era deputy PM Aziz to additional prison term
LaToya Sawyer
November 29, 2010 12:34:54 pm

An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced former foreign minister Tariq Aziz to 10 years in prison for his involvement with the displacement and killing of minority Shiite Kurds during Saddam Hussein's rule in the...

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News Rights group calls for release of last UK Guantanamo detainee
Rights group calls for release of last UK Guantanamo detainee
LaToya Sawyer
November 22, 2010 12:49:06 pm

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday urged the US and the UK to work towards the release of the last British Guantanamo Bay detainee, Shaker Aamer, whom AI claims is being arbitrarily detained....

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Cuba releases first dissident prisoner refusing exile bargain
LaToya Sawyer
November 15, 2010 11:47:05 am

Cuban officials on Saturday released the first of 13 dissident prisoners who refused to go into exile as part of an agreement reached between Cuba, Spain, and the Vatican. The prisoner, Arnoldo Ramos Lauzurique, was one of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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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