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SEC charges New Jersey with securities fraud

August 20, 2010 07:24:47 AM

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Wednesday that it has charged the state of New Jersey with securities fraud for failing to disclose to municipal bond investors that it was underfunding...

June 11, 2010 11:24:27 AM

US Representatives Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) on Wednesday introduced a resolution calling on the Rwandan government to release detained US lawyer and JURIST Forum contributor Peter Erlinder [professional profile;...

September 23, 2009 08:05:00 AM

The accused leader of the military arm of Basque separatist group ETA refused to make a statement at two hearings in the Spanish National Courts on Tuesday. Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina faces a total...

April 3, 2009 09:12:00 AM

The Vermont House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill approving same-sex marriage . The bill, aimed at "promot legal equality in the civil marriage laws and ... protect the religious freedom of...

April 22, 2006 03:51:00 PM

A presidential doctor in Indonesia Saturday declared former dictator General Suharto still unfit to stand trial, as he suffers from permanent brain damage and cannot have a logical conversation. Recently renewed efforts to have...

April 21, 2006 04:22:00 PM

A Texas state jury on Friday found Merck liable for the death of a 71-year-old man who died from a heart attack within a month of taking Merck's painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST news...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Acts of Union creates Great Britain

On May 1, 1707, the two Acts of Union went into effect, implementing the Treaty of Union and thereby uniting the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Union with Scotland Act was passed by the Parliament of England in 1706, and the Scottish Parliament promulgated the Union with England Act. Learn more about the Acts of Union from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

First US trade union formed

On May 1, 1794, the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers) was organized in Philadelphia to negotiate wages for its members, becoming the first trade union in the United States.

Learn more about the history of the labor movement in the United States, and visit the website of the AFL-CIO, the federation of America's labor unions, representing more than 13 million workers.