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News Kenya president approves voting law despite fears of election rigging
Kenya president approves voting law despite fears of election rigging
Jonathan Niznansky
January 10, 2017 08:52:39 am

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a controversial law Monday that may impact the August elections. The law enables a paper recount of votes in the event that the electronic systems fail. Though a victory for the majority Jubilee...

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News ACLU files lawsuit against Kentucky abortion ultrasound law
ACLU files lawsuit against Kentucky abortion ultrasound law
Jonathan Niznansky
January 10, 2017 07:54:26 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky Monday challenging new abortion requirements. The filing challenges House Bill 2 , a law...

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News Texas judge issues injunction barring anti-discrimination provisions of ACA
Texas judge issues injunction barring anti-discrimination provisions of ACA
Jonathan Niznansky
January 1, 2017 05:19:31 pm

US District Judge Reed O'Connor, of the Northern District of Texas , issued an injunction on Saturday barring enforcement of anti-discrimination provisions concerning transgender health and abortion in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The injunction comes one day...

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North Korea declares it will test intercontinental ballistic missile
Jonathan Niznansky
January 1, 2017 02:47:01 pm

Kim Jong-un, leader of North Korea, announced in his Sunday New Year's address that the country is in the final stage of preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic rocket. Though North Korea has tested numerous missiles this year ,...

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HRW: India deaths in police custody go unpunished
Jonathan Niznansky
December 19, 2016 04:11:52 pm

Police killings in India continue to go unpunished, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Monday. Citing India's National Crime Records Bureau , the report states that 591 people died in police custody in the...

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Former Israel president to be released early from prison term for rape
Jonathan Niznansky
December 18, 2016 04:44:18 pm

An Israeli parole board ruled Sunday that former president Moshe Katsav will be released after serving five years of his seven-year sentence for rape. After failing earlier this year to gain release, Katsav is...

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Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentences fugitive to death
Jonathan Niznansky
December 6, 2016 08:46:37 am

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced fugitive Idris Ali Sardar to death for war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The ICTB held the trial in absentia, listing Sardar as "absconded" in...

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Rights groups file lawsuits challenging abortion laws in three states
Jonathan Niznansky
December 1, 2016 09:24:28 am

Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other women's groups filed suits Wednesday challenging abortion laws in Alaska , Missouri and North Carolina . Citing 42 USC § 1983 , which provides a means of attaining injunctive...

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News Green Party files suit seeking recount of presidential votes in Pennsylvania
Green Party files suit seeking recount of presidential votes in Pennsylvania
Jonathan Niznansky
November 29, 2016 09:01:57 am

The Green Party filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania contesting the presidential election results tallied on November 8. The claim offers as grounds for its motion news articles from the...

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ACLU alleges police used life-threatening weapons at Standing Rock protest
Jonathan Niznansky
November 24, 2016 12:03:08 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday reported that police at the Standing Rock site in North Dakota have used life-threatening weapons to control protesters over the last two days. The ACLU reports that tear...

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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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