Georgia voter photo ID lawsuit [US DC] News
Georgia voter photo ID lawsuit [US DC]

Common Cause/Georgia, et al. v. Billups, et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, September 19, 2005 [complaint challenging a Georgia law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls]. Read the full text of the complaint here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed Immigration and Nationality Act into law, ending country quotas

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, standing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

The Act ordered elimination of the national origins quota system established in 1882 in favor of a worldwide quota blind to national origin. Immigration was redistributed by pooling unused quotas and making them available on a first-come, first-served basis to oversubscribed nations. Learn more about the 1965 Act and its aftermath.

Germany reunified

On October 3, 1990, the German Democratic Republic was absorbed by the Federal Republic of Germany, reunifying the country for the first time since the Second World War. Today, the event is marked annually by German Unity Day.
Read the Unification Treaty, signed in Berlin on August 31, 1990.