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News Italy issues three more arrest warrants in CIA abduction case
Italy issues three more arrest warrants in CIA abduction case
David Shucosky
September 30, 2005 10:44:00 am

Milan Prosecutor Armando Spataro announced Friday the approval of three new arrest warrants in connection for purported CIA operatives with the kidnapping of a radical Muslim in 2003 in Milan. A total of 22 purported CIA...

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News Rumsfeld to address Iraq journalist detentions, accidental killings
Rumsfeld to address Iraq journalist detentions, accidental killings
David Shucosky
September 30, 2005 10:25:00 am

Sen. John Warner (R-VA) , chairman of the US Senate Armed Forces Committee, said Thursday that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has promised to give "immediate consideration" to concerns about the increased detentions and...

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News DeLay court appearance on conspiracy charges set for Oct. 21
DeLay court appearance on conspiracy charges set for Oct. 21
David Shucosky
September 30, 2005 10:02:00 am

US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) was ordered on Thursday to appear in a Texas court on October 21 for his initial appearance in connection with charges that he violated Texas election law ....

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Hurricane Rita has Texas legal system on the move
David Shucosky
September 23, 2005 11:45:00 am

Judges, lawyers, and even prisoners are on the move across Texas as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Rita . The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , already bounced from its usual home...

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New indictment brought against California terrorism suspect
David Shucosky
September 23, 2005 11:20:00 am

Federal prosecutors said Thursday that new charges have been filed against one of the men arrested in California earlier this year on terrorism charges. Hamid Hayat, 23, now faces charges of providing material support to...

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FEC dismisses complaints of Republican wrongdoing in assisting 2004 Nader campaign
David Shucosky
September 23, 2005 10:47:00 am

The Federal Election Commission on Thursday dismissed complaints that Republican and conservative groups acted improperly to get third-party candidate Ralph Nader on the ballot during the 2004 presidential campaign. Nader said...

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Khodorkovsky to appeal conviction to European rights court, lawyer told to leave Russia
David Shucosky
September 23, 2005 10:26:00 am

Lawyers for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Friday that they will appeal his conviction on tax and fraud evasion charges to the European Court of Human Rights . A...

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News HealthSouth whistle-blower sentenced to 27 months in prison, $1.5 million fine
HealthSouth whistle-blower sentenced to 27 months in prison, $1.5 million fine
David Shucosky
September 23, 2005 10:06:00 am

Former HealthSouth finance chief Weston Smith was sentenced to 27 months in prison followed by one year of probation and ordered to forfeit $1.5 million in assets Thursday for his role in the company's...

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German court affirms dismissal of war crimes complaint against Rumsfeld
David Shucosky
September 16, 2005 11:34:00 am

A German state court in Stuttgart ruled Thursday that a federal prosecutor is not required to bring war crimes charges against US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in connection with abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison ...

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Roberts hearings end; vote expected soon
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September 16, 2005 08:06:00 am

The US Senate Judiciary Committee concluded its four days of confirmation hearings for Chief Justice nominee John Roberts late Thursday, with closing remarks from committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) and ranking Democrat...

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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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