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Mexico failing to protect women's rights: AI report

July 12, 2012 03:20:06 PM

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday submitted a briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women detailing the failure of the Mexican government to protect women from torture,...

July 12, 2012 08:16:23 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Wednesday extended his prior injunction blocking a controversial Mississippi abortion law that was scheduled to go into effect July 1....

July 10, 2012 03:10:00 PM

JURIST Columnist Volha Samasiuk holds an LL.M. from the University of Arkansas School of Law. In the second entry of a two-part series, she argues for changes in social policy to address food security... The dramatic population growth in developing...

July 10, 2012 10:38:17 AM

A federal hearing officer has recommended that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Chicago uphold its initial decision rejecting an Indiana state law that denies Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood of...

July 2, 2012 09:40:16 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Sunday issued a temporary injunction blocking a controversial Mississippi abortion law that was scheduled to go into effect...

June 28, 2012 01:27:27 PM

An abortion clinic in Mississippi on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi challenging a new abortion regulation that is scheduled to go into...

June 28, 2012 12:41:22 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Dakota on Thursday upheld an injunction against most of a controversial South Dakota abortion law but allowed one section, requiring doctors to...

June 22, 2012 09:57:50 AM

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Thursday appealed a ruling by a district court judge that held that an abortion ultrasound bill is unconstitutional. In his appeal, Pruitt argued that the...

June 17, 2012 02:40:47 PM

China authorities launched an investigation on Friday into whether local family planning officials forced Feng Jianmei to have an abortion in her seventh month of pregnancy. Feng and her family allege that earlier this month she was...

June 8, 2012 09:51:38 AM

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Thursday appealed a ruling that struck down an Oklahoma law restricting how doctors may use abortion-inducing drugs to treat patients. Three weeks ago, a...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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."

National Security Act Amendment reorganizes U.S. military

On August 10, 1949, the National Security Act Amendment was signed into law. It replaced the Department of War with the Department of Defense (DoD) and pulled all military service branches directly under the supervision of the DoD. Learn more about the National Security Act from the U.S. State Department.