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News Environmental brief ~ South Africa greenlights first windfarm
Environmental brief ~ South Africa greenlights first windfarm
Tom Henry
March 2, 2005 06:05:00 pm

In Wednesday's environmental law news, the South African government has approved a plan to construct the first windfarm in the country. The Director-General for Environmental Affairs and Tourism has approved the windfarm for the Darling district of...

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News Federal appeals court orders new trial in Microsoft patent infringement suit
Federal appeals court orders new trial in Microsoft patent infringement suit
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 04:36:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Wednesday partially reversed a lower court decision that exposed Microsoft to $565 million in damages for patent infringement. The lower court had found that Microsoft's Internet...

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News Quattrone appeals lifetime ban from securities industry
Quattrone appeals lifetime ban from securities industry
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 03:45:00 pm

Lawyers for former investment banker Frank Quattrone said Wednesday that Quattrone is appealing his permanent ban from the securities industry . Last November, the National Association of Securities Dealers permanently barred Quattrone from working in the...

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News Blair rejects latest compromise on UK anti-terror bill
Blair rejects latest compromise on UK anti-terror bill
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 03:30:00 pm

British Prime Minister Tony Blair Wednesday refused to amend the proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill to include a sunset clause that would require ministers to revisit the legislation in November. The Conservative Party ...

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News House committee approves $284B infrastructure bill
House committee approves $284B infrastructure bill
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 03:13:00 pm

The US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Wednesday approved the Transportation Equity Act . The six-year, $284 billion highway and mass transit bill stalled last year over...

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News Federal judge blocks resumption of Canadian cattle imports
Federal judge blocks resumption of Canadian cattle imports
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 02:32:00 pm

US District Judge Richard Cebull ordered a temporary halt Wednesday to Bush administration plans to allow the resumption of imports of Canadian cattle next week. Judge Cebull granted a preliminary injunction preventing a USDA regulation allowing Canadian cattle imports...

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News UN report says drug trafficking threatens rule of law in Afghanistan, Iraq
UN report says drug trafficking threatens rule of law in Afghanistan, Iraq
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 02:18:00 pm

Drug trafficking in Afghanistan threatens to undermine the rule of law and democracy in the country, according to a report released Wednesday by the International Narcotics Control Board , the independent body charged with monitoring implementation of UN...

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News Japan law bars North Korean ships as abduction dispute continues
Japan law bars North Korean ships as abduction dispute continues
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 2, 2005 02:11:00 pm

New Japanese compulsory insurance rules requiring all foreign ships over 100 tons entering Japanese ports to be insured against oil spills, losses and other damages went into effect Tuesday, effectively barring most North Korean ships....

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News CIA spy suit ruling [US SC]
CIA spy suit ruling [US SC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 2, 2005 01:25:00 pm

Tenet v. Doe, Supreme Court of the United States, March 2, 2005 [ruling that two former spys for the CIA could not sue the agency for support after it had backed out of an alleged agreement to provide them with...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Titan able to bid on Navy contracts after settlement
Corporations and securities brief ~ Titan able to bid on Navy contracts after settlement
Amit Patel
March 2, 2005 01:05:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, Titan Corp. announced it reached administrative settlement agreement with the US Navy allowing the company to bid, receive and perform on government contracts. Read the Titan press release....

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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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