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Hedges v. Obama: Defining 'Covered Persons' Under the NDAA

May 28, 2012 04:15:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School says that the government's unwillingness to clearly define which activities would make someone a 'covered person' under section 1021 of the NDAA likely resulted in a US District Court...

January 22, 2012 03:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Perveen Ali, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is currently researching issues of international refugee and human rights law. Here she discusses the challenges Iraqi refugees face...

June 27, 2011 10:04:08 AM

The US Supreme Court on Monday added 11 more cases to its 2011-2012 docket. In FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. , the court will rule on whether...

May 21, 2011 09:47:51 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday unanimously ruled to uphold a $413 million judgment against Syria for assisting in the the murders of two US contractors. In 2004,...

April 2, 2011 11:33:23 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a federal suit against former Somali prime minister and defense minister Mohamed Ali Samantar ....

January 28, 2011 09:35:06 AM

France's Constitutional Council on Friday ruled that the country's same-sex marriage ban does not violate the constitution . The council emphasized it may only interpret existing laws...

January 14, 2010 09:10:00 AM

Spain's National Court on Wednesday convicted five people for their involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings on charges of supporting terrorist groups that planned attacks. The men were indicted...

November 3, 2009 09:05:00 AM

Judge Eloy Velasco of the Spanish National Court on Monday indicted seven people for their alleged involvement in helping the suspected perpetrators of the 2004 Madrid train bombings flee Spain...

October 3, 2009 09:28:00 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that a lawsuit against Canadian oil exploration company Talisman Energy for alleged human rights violations in Sudan should be dismissed. The court...

July 10, 2009 08:43:00 AM

The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation on Wednesday filed a request for partial summary judgment concluding that the National Security Agency (NSA) illegally wiretapped several conversations between the charity and its...

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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.