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News Connecticut governor signs ‘conversion therapy’ ban
Connecticut governor signs ‘conversion therapy’ ban
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May 11, 2017 05:07:03 pm

Connecticut Governor Danial Malloy on Wednesday signed into a law a measure to ban gay conversion therapy. House Bill 6695 was passed by the legislature to end the practice of using various measures in order...

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Vermont legislature approves recreational marijuana use
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The Vermont Legislature on Wednesday voted to approve recreational use of marijuana. The bill was amended by the house to permit the recreational use of marijuana in small quantities. The law would create a legal system...

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld the government bailout of American International Group (AIG) as lawful. The ruling came down in a denial of an appeal from Starr...

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The US Senate on Tuesday rejected a measure that would rollback methane gas regulations. HJ Res 36 was a joint measure which sought to provide Congressional disapproval of the final rule of the Bureau of...

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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Friday signed SB 1085 into law which mandates that undefined laws be given their natural and ordinary meaning. Dubbed the "natural and ordinary meaning" law, it requires that "undefined...

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The National Control Commission for the Election Campaign for the Presidential Election (CNCCEP) on Saturday cautioned media outlets against sharing information leaked from an alleged hack of a presidential candidate. The hackers...

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A new plaintiff joined a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York Tuesday accusing the current administration of unfair business practices by violating the Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution. Citizens for Responsibility and...

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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday announced his office has mandated immigration enforcement as a priority. In order to limit the number of undocumented immigrants in the country, the Department of Justice (DOJ) ...

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The Supreme Court of Missouri ruled Tuesday a parole revocation was improper because the court failed to consider reasons why an indigent defendant failed to pay court cost. The case dealt with a man named William Fleming who...

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A group of US Senators on Tuesday introduced a bipartisan bill to require government agents to get a warrant when searching electronic devices of US citizens at the border. The Protecting Data at...

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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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