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News Appeals court rules nuclear plant expansion must be weighed for terror risk
Appeals court rules nuclear plant expansion must be weighed for terror risk
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 09:40:00 am

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must examine the risk of a terrorist attack when it considers the...

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News Federal judge strikes down state-financed religious prison program
Federal judge strikes down state-financed religious prison program
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 08:56:00 am

Judge Robert W. Pratt, chief judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, ruled Friday that a religious prison organization receiving government funds violated the US Constitution because it was used to rehabilitate prison...

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Blix commission calls for nuclear weapons ban
Tom Henry
June 1, 2006 08:09:00 pm

A study by the independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission , headed by former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix , has called for a total ban on the possession and use of nuclear weapons...

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News DOJ, Alaska want $92 million more for Exxon Valdez cleanup
DOJ, Alaska want $92 million more for Exxon Valdez cleanup
Tom Henry
June 1, 2006 07:42:00 pm

After re-examining the costs of cleaning up remaining oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill , the US Justice Department and the state of Alaska said Thursday that they would use a "reopener" provision in...

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California agrees to contribute National Guard troops for border patrol
Tom Henry
June 1, 2006 07:18:00 pm

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to support President Bush's deployment of National Guard troops along the Mexican border by sending 1,000 Guard members from California to join the effort. As part of the agreement,...

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Bangladesh court orders 7 Islamists executed for killing judges
Tom Henry
May 29, 2006 09:40:00 am

A Bangladesh court in Dhaka Monday sentenced seven Islamic militants, including leaders Shayek Abdur Rahman of Jamaat-ul Mujahideen and Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh , to death for the murder of two...

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Saddam witnesses defend trial leading to Dujail executions
Tom Henry
May 29, 2006 09:01:00 am

The defense team for Saddam Hussein on Monday called several witnesses to testify on behalf of Awad al-Bandar , head of the court responsible for sentencing 148 Shiites to death after a 1982...

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EU ministers mull re-naming constitution to enhance ratification chances
Tom Henry
May 29, 2006 08:34:00 am

EU foreign ministers wrapping up a two day meeting in Austria Sunday agreed to extend the "period of reflection" on the stalled European constitution for another year through the end of the German presidency...

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Gonzales pressing data retention in fight against child porn
Tom Henry
May 29, 2006 07:55:00 am

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller held a private meeting with representatives from major internet service providers late last week urging them to retain customer internet activities to combat child pornography....

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Egypt judges stage silent protest outside High Court for greater independence
Tom Henry
May 25, 2006 08:47:00 pm

As many as 300 reformist judges in Egypt who have called for more judicial independence from the government led by President Hosni Mubarak staged a silent protest in front of the High Court Thursday as...

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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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