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News DOD concludes little negative impact to repealing ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
DOD concludes little negative impact to repealing ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
Ann Riley
December 1, 2010 09:08:29 am

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Tuesday released an extensive report concluding that the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy would only minimally...

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News Supreme Court to rule on Arizona campaign finance scheme
Supreme Court to rule on Arizona campaign finance scheme
Ann Riley
November 29, 2010 12:09:03 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in four cases, consolidating two cases concerning campaign financing . In Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett [docket;...

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News Former Nazi prison guard dies while awaiting trial
Former Nazi prison guard dies while awaiting trial
Ann Riley
November 22, 2010 02:04:35 pm

Accused Nazi guard Samuel Kunz , 89, passed away in his home before he could be brought to trial for allegedly aiding in the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jewish people at the Belzec concentration camp...

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News Germany court opens country’s first piracy trial in 400 years
Germany court opens country’s first piracy trial in 400 years
Ann Riley
November 22, 2010 01:43:11 pm

The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg on Monday commenced the country's first piracy trial in 400 years against 10 accused Somali pirates on Monday. The suspects are...

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Hungary Parliament restricts Constitutional Court’s powers
Ann Riley
November 17, 2010 08:57:28 am

The National Assembly of Hungary passed a bill on Tuesday limiting the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court on state budget and taxation matters. The law, which passed 261-103, eliminates the court's ability to examine the...

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Leaked DOJ report reveals Nazi ‘safe havens’ in US
Ann Riley
November 15, 2010 01:22:08 pm

A report revealing that US intelligence officials knowingly allowed Nazis to settle in US "safe havens" after World War II was released Saturday by the New York Times after being leaked by former Department of Justice...

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China court convicts tainted milk scandal activist
Ann Riley
November 10, 2010 09:42:15 am

The Daxing District People's Court of China on Wednesday convicted Zhao Lianhai for disturbing the social order during the tainted-milk scandal, sentencing him to two-and-a-half years in prison. In 2008, melamine-tainted milk from China was blamed...

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Dutch court rules eviction of squatters violates Europe rights treaty
Ann Riley
November 8, 2010 02:08:00 pm

The Hague Court of Appeals on Monday prohibited the eviction of squatters in Amsterdam, The Hauge, and Leeuwarden. In an oral ruling, the court relied on the European Convention on Human...

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Supreme Court vacates habeas petition on state law claim
Ann Riley
November 8, 2010 11:57:03 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that lower federal courts may not issue writs of habeas corpus to state prisoners unless their confinement violates federal law. The court overturned a...

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Turkish court reinstates YouTube ban
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November 3, 2010 11:23:29 am

A Turkish Magistrate Court in Ankara reinstated the nearly-three year ban on YouTube on Tuesday, just days after it was lifted. The court ordered access to YouTube blocked after video...

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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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