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Saddam refuses to provide handwriting sample that could prove execution order
Greg Sampson
April 12, 2006 11:28:00 am

Iraqi High Criminal Court chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , who is presiding over the trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , said Wednesday that Hussein and one of his co-defendants, Hussein's half-brother and former Baath...

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April 8, 2006 11:41:00 am

President Bush indicated in his weekly radio address Saturday that he would not support any immigration reform that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. Although he continued to call for a temporary guest worker...

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April 8, 2006 11:21:00 am

A US military lawyer acting as defense counsel for a Yemeni prisoner on trial for terrorism-related offenses before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay on Friday challenged a US Department of...

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Accused 2004 Madrid bombings mastermind alleges abuse in custody
Greg Sampson
April 8, 2006 10:30:00 am

Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed , alleged to have masterminded the 2004 Madrid train bombings , claimed Friday in papers filed with the Italian court hearing his criminal case that he had been mistreated by Spanish and...

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France labor leaders demand youth jobs law repeal by April 15
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April 5, 2006 03:41:00 pm

French union leaders said Wednesday that there is only one "plausible response likely to end the conflict" over the controversial First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) and gave French President Jacques Chirac until...

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April 5, 2006 11:53:00 am

UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton who under the UK's traditional governmental structure served three roles as Speaker of the House of Lords, the head of the UK's judiciary, and a minister in the British government,...

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April 5, 2006 11:27:00 am

Dutch investigators on Wednesday released their final report on their independent investigation into the death of Slobodan Milosevic , saying that the former Yugoslavian leader died of a heart attack on the morning that guards...

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Diplomats search for countries willing to take Taylor after trial
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April 5, 2006 11:21:00 am

The international tribunal that is set to hear the case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor hit a wall on Tuesday as court administrators struggled to find a country willing to grant Taylor asylum...

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April 1, 2006 11:17:00 am

A New Jersey appeals court on Friday upheld a July 2005 trial court decision to certify a nationwide class of plaintiffs suing the drug maker Merck for damages relating to its withdrawn drug Vioxx...

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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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