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Universal Contraception Access and Religious Freedom

February 15, 2012 11:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Petrany, Yale Law School Class of 2014, is on the staff of the Yale Journal on Regulation. He argues that the Obama administration's new mandate on contraception coverage by employers violates religious freedom...President Obama's recent modification...

February 15, 2012 11:37:11 AM

The Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday that defines life as beginning at conception. The bill passed 66-32 moving the state toward banning abortion . The bill,...

February 11, 2012 01:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that the increasing popularity of state regulations requiring doctors to perform ostensibly informative procedures prior to an abortion represent a revision of Supreme Court precedent which may...

February 11, 2012 09:44:54 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday denied a request filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) to hold an en banc hearing to reconsider a challenge to...

February 7, 2012 01:18:13 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled Monday that Texas can begin enforcing a state law that requires women to have a sonogram before undergoing...

February 2, 2012 04:02:21 PM

The Virginia Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would require a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound before the procedure. The new requirements include the audio provision of fetal heartbeat...

January 24, 2012 03:00:00 PM

Redefining Roe: Informed Consent and the Abortion Debate
Mary Ziegler, Saint Louis University School of Law; January 24, 2012

January 11, 2012 10:21:07 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday lifted an injunction on a Texas law that requires women to have a sonogram before undergoing an abortion , allowing...

January 5, 2012 11:24:42 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday heard arguments in an appeal by the state of Texas to lift a lower court's preliminary injunction against a state abortion law ...

January 4, 2012 04:00:00 PM

The Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act: Some Missing Pieces
Arthur Hellman, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; January 4, 2012

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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."

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.