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News Mississippi abortion ban bill fails as legislators miss deadline for compromise
Mississippi abortion ban bill fails as legislators miss deadline for compromise
Krystal MacIntyre
March 28, 2006 12:18:00 pm

The Mississippi Legislature failed to reach a compromise on an abortion ban bill before a Monday night deadline, preventing it from becoming law during the current legislative session. The proposed bill would have prohibited most abortions...

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News China to ban human organ sales in black market crackdown
China to ban human organ sales in black market crackdown
Chris Buell
March 28, 2006 11:15:00 am

The Chinese Ministry of Health announced Tuesday that it will ban the sale of human organs in an effort to stem a rising black market trade for organs of executed prisoners. The Ministry...

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News Congressman agrees to revised UN reform bill
Congressman agrees to revised UN reform bill
Chris Buell
March 28, 2006 10:53:00 am

US House International Relations Committee chairman Rep. Henry Hyde indicated Monday that he would support a revised version of the UN Reform Act in an attempt to gain Senate support for the legislation. Hyde...

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News Civil liberties group asks appeals court to make secret wiretap ruling public
Civil liberties group asks appeals court to make secret wiretap ruling public
Chris Buell
March 28, 2006 10:28:00 am

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) on Monday asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to declassify a district judge's ruling on possible warrantless wiretaps used by the government in a high-profile terrorism...

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News Belarus presidential inaugural delayed as detained protestors mount hunger strike
Belarus presidential inaugural delayed as detained protestors mount hunger strike
Krystal MacIntyre
March 28, 2006 10:08:00 am

Nikolai Lozovik, Secretary for the Belarus Central Election Commission , announced Tuesday that the third-term inauguration of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will be delayed. Lukashenko's landslide reelection earlier this month triggered claims of widespread...

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News Louisiana AG investigating Red Cross over Katrina fraud accusations
Louisiana AG investigating Red Cross over Katrina fraud accusations
Chris Buell
March 28, 2006 10:05:00 am

Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, Jr. Monday announced an investigation into the American Red Cross over accusations that some of its volunteers stole money from Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Foti reportedly opened...

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News Mexico president lauds Senate approval of revised US immigration bill
Mexico president lauds Senate approval of revised US immigration bill
Holly Manges Jones
March 28, 2006 08:38:00 am

Mexican President Vicente Fox has lauded Monday's approval by the US Senate Judiciary Committee of an immigration bill that would provide temporary work visas to undocumented workers in the US and that rejected...

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News Moussaoui testimony conflicts with statements from 9/11 mastermind
Moussaoui testimony conflicts with statements from 9/11 mastermind
Holly Manges Jones
March 28, 2006 07:50:00 am

Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial were left in a quandary Monday after hearing conflicting testimony from Moussaoui and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed , the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks [JURIST...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Wanted war crimes suspect Taylor is missing: Nigeria
BREAKING NEWS ~ Wanted war crimes suspect Taylor is missing: Nigeria
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 28, 2006 07:00:00 am

The BBC is reporting a statement by the Nigerian government that wanted war crimes suspect Charles Taylor , the former Liberian president indicted by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) who it said...

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Afghan Christian convert released from prison as asylum search continues
Holly Manges Jones
March 28, 2006 06:55:00 am

Afghanistan's Justice Minister said Tuesday that authorities have released Abdul Rahman , the Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity. Sarwar Danish did not provide any...

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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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