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News US military court rules racist online speech protected by First Amendment
US military court rules racist online speech protected by First Amendment
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 17, 2008 11:41:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Tuesday ruled that racist comments made online by a US Army soldier were protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The court confirmed that...

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News Italy national fingerprinting plan approved by parliament panel
Italy national fingerprinting plan approved by parliament panel
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 17, 2008 11:03:00 am

A committee of the Italian House of Deputies Wednesday approved funding for a national fingerprinting effort to begin in 2010. Italian leaders have pushed to require all Italian citizens and resident foreigners to be fingerprinted...

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News ICTY convicts former Yugoslavia general on additional Dubrovnik siege charges
ICTY convicts former Yugoslavia general on additional Dubrovnik siege charges
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 17, 2008 10:04:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Thursday convicted former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar on additional charges related to his role in the 1991 shelling of Dubrovnik ,...

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News Kurdish lawmakers protest draft election bill by walking out of Iraq parliament
Kurdish lawmakers protest draft election bill by walking out of Iraq parliament
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 02:21:00 pm

Kurdish legislators staged a walkout of the Iraqi Parliament Tuesday, delaying a vote on a proposed provincial election bill that they say is unconstitutional. Kurdish lawmakers objected to an attached proposal that would establish a provincial council...

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News US Justice Department continues efforts to punish former Nazis
US Justice Department continues efforts to punish former Nazis
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 01:17:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington , seeking to revoke the US citizenship of an alleged World War...

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South Korea court suspends sentence of former Samsung CEO
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 12:39:00 pm

The Seoul Central District Court Wednesday suspended a three-year prison sentence for former Samsung Chairman and CEO Kun-Hee Lee , who was convicted of tax fraud. The court ruled that Lee should not serve prison time...

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China imprisons man for violating sexual harassment law
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 12:01:00 pm

A Chinese office manager has become the first man to be imprisoned under a Chinese sexual harassment law passed in 2005, according to reports on Wednesday. Previous cases brought under the law have been settled through civil...

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Washington DC city council passes handgun ban amendment
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 15, 2008 09:17:00 pm

The Washington DC City Council on Tuesday passed emergency temporary legislation to amend the city's long-standing ban on handguns. The amendment is intended to bring the city ordinance more in line with the recent US...

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Spain files challenge to Basque self-determination referendum
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 15, 2008 01:55:00 pm

The Spanish Justice Ministry Tuesday filed a challenge in Spain's Constitutional Court to block a planned Basque region referendum on increased autonomy. The referendum, approved by the Basque Parliament last month, will ask citizens whether...

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Belgium PM submits resignation after constitutional reforms failure
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 15, 2008 12:40:00 pm

Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme submitted his resignation Monday night because of his coalition government's inability to successfully divide federal powers between the Flemish- and French-speaking communities. Leterme had set a...

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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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