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Reproductive rights group challenges Texas sonogram before abortion law

June 14, 2011 09:49:25 AM

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a challenge Monday to the newly signed Texas law requiring a sonogram be done before a woman can have an abortion. The CRR filed the lawsuit in the...

June 2, 2011 10:34:47 AM

The Obama administration took a stand Wednesday against a controversial Indiana law that prevents health care providers with abortion services from receiving Medicaid funds. Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

May 27, 2011 02:22:50 PM

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a South Dakota law requiring women to seek counseling at a pregnancy center and wait three days before...

May 26, 2011 02:55:47 PM

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton vetoed a pair of bills Wednesday that restricted state funding for abortions and banned them altogether after 20 weeks. Dayton vetoed Chapter 59 of Minnesota House...

May 25, 2011 11:49:50 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Monday upheld an Ohio law that limits the use of the "abortion pill," overturning a 2006 injunction . The law...

May 12, 2011 12:36:41 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on Wednesday denied a request from Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN) for an injunction and temporary restraining order to prevent Indiana from...

May 6, 2011 01:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Caitlin Borgmann of the City University of New York School of Law says the new wave of anti-abortion legislation in Congress and state legislatures is aimed at pushing the limits of the current constitutional framework and prompting...

April 21, 2011 11:07:05 AM

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Tuesday signed into law House Bill 1888 , prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks. The law allows abortions past the 20-week mark only in certain extenuating circumstances where...

April 15, 2011 12:23:19 PM

Idaho Governor CL "Butch" Otter on Wednesday signed into law a bill that would prohibit most abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. The bill had passed the state legislature [JURIST...

April 8, 2011 10:01:31 AM

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 69-19 Thursday to approve a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, except in cases where the mother's life is...

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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.