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A long-awaited FDA ruling on access to an emergency contraceptive called Plan B is expected to be announced by the end of the month, as part of a deal that got Lester Crawford approved by...

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Lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan filed a petition of certiorari on Monday, asking the US Supreme Court to block military tribunals for terror suspects. The high court had once before denied cert on...

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Argentinian police announced on Monday the arrest of Milan Lukic, a former Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander who in July was convicted in absentia by a Serbian war crimes court and sentenced to 20 years for his role...

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A new Florida policy that took effect on June 1 bans sex offenders from public hurricane shelters if they are under state supervision and not permitted near children. Instead, they...

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August 8, 2005 02:59:00 pm

According to US military leaders, the Pentagon has established new contingency plans for domestic military deployment in the event of a terrorist attack, but the procedures may challenge traditional doctrines constraining military roles in national law enforcement. The plans...

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An civil liberties oversight panel created by Congress last year in response to a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission has yet to meet almost eight months after its inception. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board [CRS...

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August 8, 2005 02:18:00 pm

A new report released Monday by a UN panel accused Benon Sevan , the former head of the UN Oil-for-Food Program , of taking almost $150,000 in bribes. The Third Interim Report [PDF text;...

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August 8, 2005 01:41:00 pm

The family of Saddam Hussein said in a statement Monday that they have granted Khalil Dulaimi, an Iraqi lawyer already serving on his defense team, the exclusive right to represent the deposed Iraqi president, dissolving his...

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Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Hassan Omar, three of the primary suspects in the failed July 21 London bombings appeared in court on Monday after being charged with attempted murder, conspiracy 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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