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FBI report shows decrease in US violent crime for third straight year
Ann Riley
September 13, 2010 01:30:40 pm

Violent crime in the US dropped for the third year in a row, according to the annual crime statistics for 2009 , released Monday by the FBI. The FBI's Crime in the United States, 2009 report showed...

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Iran judge releases journalist charged with ‘warring against God’
Ann Riley
September 13, 2010 12:30:34 pm

A judge from Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran on Sunday released from prison Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election , after she posted bail of...

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Federal judge declines to lift stem cell research injunction
Ann Riley
September 8, 2010 11:37:07 am

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied a motion to stay a preliminary injunction issued in August barring government funding of stem cell...

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Third Circuit rules warrant may be required to collect cell phone location data
Ann Riley
September 8, 2010 09:13:54 am

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that at times the government might need a warrant to obtain cell phone data to track a person's location. The...

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Federal judge dismisses police officer suit against Arizona immigration law
Ann Riley
September 1, 2010 09:53:09 am

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Tuesday granted a motion to dismiss a police officer's suit challenging Arizona's controversial immigration law [SB 1070 materials, JURIST news...

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UN official calls for DRC militias to face war crimes for mass rapes
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September 1, 2010 09:35:32 am

UN Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict Margot Wallstrom on Tuesday called for an end to impunity for leaders of militias and armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

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August 30, 2010 01:57:22 pm

A forthcoming UN report claims that troops from Rwanda and allied rebels committed crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that could be classified as genocide if proven by the appropriate court, according to media...

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Ex-Khmer Rouge leader appeals conviction
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August 25, 2010 09:56:21 am

Lawyers for former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav on Tuesday filed a notice of an appeal of his conviction by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)...

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Independent $20 billion oil spill victim fund begins processing claims
Ann Riley
August 23, 2010 01:24:40 pm

The administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) announced Monday that the GCCF is in service and will begin processing claims from the $20 billion fund established by British Petroleum (BP) to...

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August 20, 2010 08:41:47 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Alternatives-Cameroun on Thursday urged the government of Cameroon to decriminalize consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex . Under Article 347 of the Cameroon...

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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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