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November 11, 2010 12:19:03 pm

The Obama administration filed a brief Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court not to rescind the stay preventing suspension of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST...

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November 10, 2010 01:46:28 pm

The Czech Republic continues to discriminate against Roma school children despite a court order, according to a complaint filed Monday with the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe by the...

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Federal prosecutors charge 3 men with funding Somalia terrorist organization
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November 4, 2010 12:52:07 pm

The US District Court Eastern District of Missouri on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging three men with providing material support to Somali-based Islamic terrorist organization al Shabaab . The October 21...

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Arizona voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 107, amending the state constitution to ban affirmative action programs in state government agencies. The measure was passed by the state House of Representatives and placed...

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October 29, 2010 01:41:23 pm

Journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan who criticize the government are facing increased intimidation, violence and lawsuits , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday. HRW criticized the secret investigation into the May killing of journalist Saradasht Osman, who...

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October 28, 2010 11:51:00 am

A Kuwaiti appeals court on Thursday upheld the acquittal of eight men accused of attempting to form an al Qaeda cell and planning to attack a US base 70 miles south of Kuwait City. The men were tried and...

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October 22, 2010 03:15:58 pm

The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern on Friday that security forces in Guinea "committed serious human rights violations" in subduing demonstrations that took place this week ahead of the...

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October 21, 2010 11:28:04 am

Environmental advocacy groups Defenders of Wildlife, Gulf Restoration Network and Save the Manatee Club filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against oil British Petroleum (BP) for the ongoing harm to endangered and threatened wildlife...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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