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News Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds judgment against pharmaceutical companies
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds judgment against pharmaceutical companies
Jaimie Cremeans
June 23, 2012 02:40:02 pm

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday upheld a money judgment against Pharmacia Corporation for inflating drug prices to Wisconsin Medicaid in violation of Wisconsin Statutes 100.18, the Wisconsin's Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) and 49.49(4m)(a)2, the Medicaid...

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News Rights groups file brief in breast cancer gene patents lawsuit
Rights groups file brief in breast cancer gene patents lawsuit
Jaimie Cremeans
June 17, 2012 03:31:33 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a brief with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent...

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News China investigates alleged forced abortion at 7th month of pregnancy
China investigates alleged forced abortion at 7th month of pregnancy
Jaimie Cremeans
June 17, 2012 02:40:47 pm

China authorities launched an investigation on Friday into whether local family planning officials forced Feng Jianmei to have an abortion in her seventh month of pregnancy. Feng and her family allege that earlier this month she was...

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Iowa Congressman to sue Obama over new illegal immigration policy
Jaimie Cremeans
June 16, 2012 02:43:22 pm

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) said Friday that President Barack Obama's plan to issue an executive order implementing policies of the DREAM Act is unconstitutional and he plans to sue the Obama administration to delay its...

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UN: Sudan must improve human rights
Jaimie Cremeans
June 16, 2012 02:04:58 pm

Newly appointed UN Independent Expert on Human Rights in Sudan, Mashood Adebayo Baderin, said on Friday, following his first mission to Sudan, that the country still needs to take further steps to ensure its people have adequate...

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Trial of Turkish military officers on hold due to defense lawyers’ boycott
Jaimie Cremeans
June 16, 2012 11:49:44 am

A boycott by defense lawyers in the case of hundreds of Turkish military officers accused of plotting a coup against the government in 2003 caused the judge to refer the case on Friday to the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office...

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Pakistan high court orders action against chief justice’s son, real estate tycoon
Jaimie Cremeans
June 16, 2012 10:36:08 am

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday ordered that the Attorney General take action to bring the Chief Justice's son, Dr. Arsalan Iftikhar, and real estate businessman, Malik Riaz Hussain, to trial for alleged bribery...

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UN report condemns Canada for complicity in torture of citizens detained abroad
Jaimie Cremeans
June 3, 2012 02:48:36 pm

The UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) released a report on Friday finding that Canada was complicit in rights violations against three Canadians who were held prisoner in Syria, and against Omar Khadr, who is currently...

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Syria president condemns Houla massacre, denies involvement
Jaimie Cremeans
June 3, 2012 02:02:16 pm

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced on Sunday that his government had nothing to do with last week's Houla massacre and that "not even monsters" would carry out the attacks. Al-Assad made his remarks,...

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New York high court rules custodial parent can be convicted of kidnapping
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June 2, 2012 03:23:04 pm

The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that a custodial parent can be convicted of kidnapping where the parent's actions are "so obviously and unjustifiably dangerous or harmful to the child as...

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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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