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News Federal lawsuit challenges data collection under Secure Flight program
Federal lawsuit challenges data collection under Secure Flight program
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 04:20:00 pm

Four people filed suit Thursday against the Transportation Security Administration in an Anchorage federal court alleging that the agency illegally collected information about passengers in testing the Secure Flight Program last fall. Earlier this month,...

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News BTK killer sentenced to life in prison
BTK killer sentenced to life in prison
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 03:57:00 pm

Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms on Thursday after pleading guilty in June to 10 murders. Since Kansas did not have the death penalty at the time of the crimes, the...

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News Illinois high court tosses $1 billion verdict against State Farm
Illinois high court tosses $1 billion verdict against State Farm
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 02:02:00 pm

The Illinois Supreme Court reversed a $1 billion judgment against State Farm Thursday, ruling that a class action should not have been certified in the case. In 1999, State Farm was held...

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News UK subway shooting victim family says top police officer tried to block inquiry
UK subway shooting victim family says top police officer tried to block inquiry
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 12:50:00 pm

Lawyers representing the family of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes, mistakenly killed by police who thought they were pursuing a suspect in the July 21 London bombing , have accused Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian...

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National Archives launches formal investigation into missing Roberts file
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 12:08:00 pm

The National Archives began an investigation Wednesday into the disappearance of a file containing papers authored by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts on affirmative action. Officials said the file disappeared ...

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Former Peruvian spy chief faces abuse charges
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 11:50:00 am

Vladimiro Montesinos , a close aide of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Peru's former intelligence chief, went on trial Wednesday on charges that he ordered the massacres of Maoist rebel supporters by paramilitary death...

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Number-two US diplomat in Iraq allegedly gave classified info to lobby group
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 11:11:00 am

David Satterfield, the number-two diplomat at the US Embassy in Baghdad, is allegedly one of the anonymous government officials said to have disclosed classified information to a Department of Defense analyst and two former officials of the pro-Israel lobbying...

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DOJ report shows decline in federal tort lawsuits
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 10:50:00 am

There has been an almost 80 percent decrease in the number of federal tort trials from 1985 to 2003, the US Department of Justice said in a report released Wednesday. According to Federal Tort...

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Bangladeshi police question almost 50 in bombing probe
David Shucosky
August 18, 2005 10:11:00 am

Police in Bangladesh have detained almost 50 people for questioning after a series of over 100 bombs exploded across the country on Wednesday, killing two and injuring over 100. The near-simultaneous bombings took place outside government buildings...

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UN envoy arrives in Myanmar to push for release of opposition leader
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August 18, 2005 09:38:00 am

Ali Alatas, former Indonesian foreign minister, went to Myanmar Thursday as a special envoy of the UN to help push for the release of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . Alatas was appointed to...

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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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