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Ninth Circuit restricts injunction on Idaho abortion law

September 12, 2012 08:57:24 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday narrowed the scope on a preliminary injunction against a 1972 Idaho law that makes it a felony to end one's own pregnancy. Mother of...

September 11, 2012 02:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Pinto, St. John's University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the third article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Pinto explains why...

September 5, 2012 09:57:40 AM

Planned Parenthood on Wednesday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its ruling which allows Texas to impose a funding ban on clinics affiliated with abortion providers...

September 2, 2012 11:10:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Matthew Cavedon, Emory University School of Law Class of 2015, compares the Department of Health and Human Services's contraception mandate to the Food and Drug Administration's attempt to regulate tobacco...As 24 lawsuits filed against the Department of...

August 22, 2012 12:29:06 PM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday lifted an injunction that blocked a Texas law forbidding any clinic affiliated with abortion providers from receiving public funds. The state of Texas vowed...

August 18, 2012 11:38:43 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday upheld Louisiana's Act 490, which allows the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) to revoke an abortion clinic's license immediately after a...

August 13, 2012 11:00:31 AM

Ending discrimination against women is necessary to fix the problem of global poverty, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. Speaking before the World Congress of Global Partnership for Young Women in Seoul, South Korea,...

August 12, 2012 03:02:10 PM

A judge for Australia's Queensland District Court has, for the first time in Australian jurisprudence, defined the term "conception" as the act of getting pregnant. Judge Leanne Clare defined "conception" Wednesday as "the commencement...

August 9, 2012 01:05:39 PM

The Supreme Court of New Zealand on Thursday rejected an appeal brought by anti-abortion group Right to Life . The court upheld a Court of Appeal decision regarding the capacity of the Abortion Supervisory...

August 4, 2012 12:39:57 PM

A Kansas judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state's new abortion clinic regulations after state officials asked that they be upheld without a trial. The state argued that they have a rational reason...

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US apologizes to Japanese-Americans for detention during WWII

US President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 into law on August 10, 1988, apologizing on behalf of the United States to Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during WWII and providing $20,000 in compensation for each survivor. The law also provided $12,000 in compensation for each living displaced Aleutian Islander who was relocated to a camp in Alaska during the US's Aleutian Islands campaign.

President Reagan authorized compensation for Japanese-Americans interned during World War II

On August 10, 1988, US President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that provided payments of $20,000 to Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps by the US government during World War II. Learn more about the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which also included a formal apology by Congress for what it called a "grave injustice."

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