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Rights groups challenge NYPD over Muslim surveillance

June 19, 2013 11:23:32 AM

Rights groups filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday accused the New York Police Department (NYPD) of unlawfully targeting Muslims for surveillance. The rights group allege that the NYPD has been sending spies into mosques, student...

March 19, 2013 12:45:00 PM

Randolph M. McLaughlin & Jonathan A. Jarrell, Pace Law School

February 13, 2013 02:46:33 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday granted class action status to a lawsuit brought to stop the New York Police Department (NYPD) from...

January 24, 2013 08:23:14 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday lifted an order that previously required the New York Police Department (NYPD) to stop using a "stop-and-frisk"...

January 9, 2013 02:56:53 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday ordered the New York Police Department (NYPD) to cease using a "stop-and-frisk" practice outside of apartment buildings in...

July 16, 2010 03:17:17 PM

New York Governor David Paterson (D) signed a bill Friday prohibiting the retention of personal information of individuals detained New York City police during a "stop and frisk" but ultimately not charged with a crime....

March 2, 2010 03:13:00 PM

Max Parmelee, Pitt Law '12, discusses the ways in which his views of racial profiling changed after attending a lecture by Pitt Law Professor David Harris and reflecting on the use of profiling by federal and local authorities...Earlier this year,...

January 26, 2009 03:55:00 PM

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday decided six cases. The Court ruled unanimously in Crawford v. Nashville and Davidson County that Title VII of the 1964 Civil...

December 9, 2008 03:35:00 PM

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In Arizona v. Johnson , the Court heard arguments on whether the Fourth Amendment permits a...

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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.