The company charged that the unions had conspired to deprive nonunion workers of their protected rights under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. The federal district court granted injunctive relief and...
Lloyd’s is not an insurance company. Rather, it is a corporate body governed by the Lloyd’s Act of 1871 and subsequent acts of the British parliament. It operates as a partially mutualized marketplace consisting of multiple financial backers, grouped into syndicates, which pool and spread ri...
a 27-year-old Irish man on his journey to the West of America for his lecture tour. He is a tall gentleman with a pallid face, dressed in satin breeches and a velvet jacket. At the time he is lounging languidly on the...
History of Section 1983Section 1983 has been around for nearly 150 years. The law was passed back in 1871 after the Civil War in an effort to help combat race-based discrimination. Under the law, former slaves could sue police, prison officials, and other government agents for violating ...
Public holidaysin the UK were first defined in theBank Holidays Act of 1871. Today, the laws are set as statutory holidays, common law holidays, or byroyal proclamation. About Early May Bank Holiday in Other Countries Read more aboutEarly May Bank Holiday. ...
On Public Domain Day, that act of grateful sharing begins for another year of our culture, something to celebrate indeed. Yet we should also spare a moment to regret that which we have lost. Want to learn more about the public domain? Here is the legal background on how we got our ...
A suicide, a disfigurement, an act of vandalism and a power outage, an old man’s death and a young woman’s reprieve from tuberculosis. But even more happens off-camera, so to speak. Although Fearing’s Hudson General Hospital is an enormous Manhattan hospital with hundreds of patients ...
Towards the end of 1871, Stanley found him in Ujiji (Tanzania), where he remained with him until March 1872. A year later, Stanley, a global celebrity at this point, returned to Valencia as a war correspondent to report on the disturbances brought about by the cantonal revolution of ...
It is useful here to distinguish between two Arabic terms expressing two different aspects of secularization: ʿAlmana as the act of secularizing and Taʿalmun as (the process of) being secularized; both could be translated by the English term secularization. Taʿalmun refers to the ...
Railroadsexpanded dramatically in the U.S. in the 1870s. From 1871 to 1900, 170,000 miles of track were laid in the United States, most of it for constructing the transcontinental railway system. It began with the passage of thePacific Railway Act in 1862, which authorized the first of ...