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Federal court refuses to alter Florida congressional district boundaries
Justin Cosgrove
April 20, 2016 08:00:34 am

A panel of federal judges on Monday rejected a motion by Representative Corrine Brown challenging the current congressional district boundaries in Florida. Brown has long argued that the current boundary system violates federal voting laws [AP...

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Microsoft sues DOJ over customer email privacy
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April 15, 2016 10:43:41 am

Microsoft sued the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday regarding the privacy of their customers' emails. Microsoft filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ...

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ACLU attempts to block Kansas voter ID law
Justin Cosgrove
April 15, 2016 07:55:21 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday asked a federal judge to issue an injunction pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed in February . The ACLU is attempting to block a...

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Texas defends voter ID laws
Justin Cosgrove
April 12, 2016 05:20:07 pm

Texas urged the Supreme Court on Monday to alllow it's voter ID laws to remain in effect while under review by a federal appeals court. The Court is considering a plea by a group...

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Tennesse Senate passes bill allowing counselors to turn away patients based on religious and personal beliefs
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April 12, 2016 05:15:38 pm

A bill in Tennessee that will allow mental health counselors to turn away patients based on the counselors' religious beliefs passed on Monday. In February the Senate passed the bill that allowed counselors to...

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Pakistan militant group establishes new Islamic court
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April 7, 2016 04:50:16 pm

Pakistani authorities opened a probe on Thursday into reports that a charity run by a militant group has established an Islamic court. The group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has reportedly established a court separate from the judiciary in Lahore. Legal...

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Justin Cosgrove
April 7, 2016 04:30:18 pm

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill (HB 2665) on Thursday enacting a new funding formula for schools. The bill replaces a formula that was found to be unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court...

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ICC dismisses case against Kenya deputy president
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April 5, 2016 02:26:34 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday threw out charges against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto . Ruto and Joshua Sang were accused of supporting murderous inter-ethnic violence in Kenya after the 2007...

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California top court rules employees entitled to a chair
Justin Cosgrove
April 5, 2016 01:32:02 pm

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that employees who can do their jobs while seated are entitled to a place to sit. The court held in a 7-0 ruling that "if the tasks being...

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March 31, 2016 04:45:12 pm

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) . The lawsuit challenged the FDA's authority to approve genetically modified animals for use as food. In November the FDA approved [WSJ...

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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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