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News UAE court convicts US citizen for terrorist activities
UAE court convicts US citizen for terrorist activities
Jay Carmella
October 12, 2009 01:05:00 pm

The Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday convicted an American citizen of engaging in terrorist activities and sentenced him to 18 months in prison. Naji Hamdan, who confessed to the terrorist...

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News Mali demonstrators protest women’s rights law
Mali demonstrators protest women’s rights law
Jay Carmella
August 23, 2009 05:24:00 pm

More than 50,000 people gathered in the Mali capital of Bamako on Sunday to protest a law passed recently by the National Assembly to extend the rights of women. The new law gives...

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News Europe official urges countries to disclose role in CIA secret prisons
Europe official urges countries to disclose role in CIA secret prisons
Jay Carmella
August 23, 2009 03:58:00 pm

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur Dick Marty on Friday called on European countries to show accountability for their role in assisting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in...

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News Guantanamo detainee cases assigned to federal prosecutors: report
Guantanamo detainee cases assigned to federal prosecutors: report
Jay Carmella
August 4, 2009 08:01:00 am

Several cases involving Guantanamo Bay detainees have been assigned to federal prosecutors in Washington DC, New York, and Virginia, the Associated Press reported Monday. White House officials reportedly said that Attorney General Eric Holder...

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News Senate committee to hold hearings on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Senate committee to hold hearings on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Jay Carmella
July 28, 2009 08:40:00 am

The US Senate Armed Services Committee announced Monday that it will hold hearings this fall to review the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy . Under the policy,...

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Eleventh Circuit denies FedEx employees class certification
Jay Carmella
July 28, 2009 07:41:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday denied FedEx Corporation employees suing over compensation the ability to gain class classification. The court's decision affirmed a decision by the US...

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Federal judge finds CIA committed fraud, orders documents unsealed
Jay Carmella
July 21, 2009 07:43:00 am

Chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Royce Lamberth found Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) committed fraud in its efforts to keep documents related to eavesdropping...

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News Peru ex-president Fujimori denies criminal wrongdoing as corruption trial opens
Peru ex-president Fujimori denies criminal wrongdoing as corruption trial opens
Jay Carmella
July 14, 2009 07:39:00 am

The corruption trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori opened Monday with Fujimori confessing to having paid former Peruvian Intelligence Director Vladimiro Montesino $15 million to resign in 2000, but denying any...

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News Taylor trial at Sierra Leone war crimes court could take 4 years: prosecution
Taylor trial at Sierra Leone war crimes court could take 4 years: prosecution
Jay Carmella
July 7, 2009 07:51:00 am

The prosecution warned the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Monday that the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor at The Hague could take four years to complete...

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Uighur detainees decision delayed to next Supreme Court term
Jay Carmella
June 30, 2009 06:55:00 am

The US Supreme Court closed its 2008 term Monday without deciding whether to hear the case of the remaining 13 Chinese Uighur Muslims at Guantanamo Bay . The Court did not provide...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First US life insurance company incorporated

On January 11, 1759, America's first life insurance company was incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers was established by Presbyterians to support the families of their ministers. In 1988, the company's name was changed to the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund. The company later became Covenant Life Insurance Company before being acquired by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 2002. Read a history of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund from the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Treaty ended Anglo-American claims, courts in China

On January 11, 1943, the United States and Great Britain relinquished by treaty their extraterritorial claims in China. This abandonment effectively ended the jurisdiction of the extraterritorial United States Court for China (established 1906) and the British Supreme Court in China. Read more about the United States Court for China, which one scholar has called "probably the strangest federal tribunal ever constituted by Congress," in a short online history of the US Ninth Circuit.

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