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Russia proposes tougher immigration laws after Putin call for crackdown
Melissa Bancroft
October 8, 2006 03:09:00 pm

Russian immigration officials have proposed stricter migrant laws hard on the heels of a call by President Vladimir Putin to crack down on illegal immigrants at a Thursday cabinet meeting. The proposals include harsher...

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News Australia AG reconsidering access to books banned under terror laws
Australia AG reconsidering access to books banned under terror laws
Melissa Bancroft
October 2, 2006 07:21:00 pm

Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock is reconsidering the removal from Australian libraries of books which the government fears may incite terrorist activity. In a television interview Monday Ruddock expressed a willingness to allow structured and limited...

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News Judge refuses to throw out fraud convictions of Siegelman, Scrushy
Judge refuses to throw out fraud convictions of Siegelman, Scrushy
Melissa Bancroft
October 2, 2006 07:08:00 pm

A federal judge Monday denied motions by former Alabama governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy to overturn their corruption convictions. US District Judge Mark Fuller ruled there...

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On September 24, 1789, Congress instituted a three-tiered federal judicial structure topped by a Supreme Court with the passage of "An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States", later known as the Judiciary Act of 1789. Learn more about the Act from the National Archives.

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