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Bangladesh war crimes tribunal rejects bail plea for Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Jamie Davis
June 26, 2012 08:18:02 am

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday rejected a bail petition from Jamaat-e-Islami party (JI) leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedee . Lawyers for Sayeedee asserted that he just had a surgery...

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A New York judge on Friday approved a $410 million settlement agreement between hedge fund manager Ezra Merkin and the state of New York in a lawsuit connected with the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme ....

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Kosovo parliament passes new media laws
Jamie Davis
June 23, 2012 10:14:13 am

Kosovo's parliament approved a penal code with new laws on Friday that require journalists to reveal their sources and make defamation a crime. In response to the new laws, Kosovo's deputy prime minister, Hajredin Kuci, resigned from office [Reuters...

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June 23, 2012 10:09:03 am

Paraguay's Congress on Friday removed president Fernando Lugo from office after it found him guilty of mishandling armed clashes that took place last week during which 17 police and farmers were killed. The lower house of Congress voted 76-1...

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June 19, 2012 09:12:08 am

An Illinois man on Monday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois against Bureau County alleging that prison officials in the county denied him necessary HIV medication during...

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New York City on Monday filed a derivative suit in Delaware Chancery Court against Wal-Mart alleging that both officers and board members of the company breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders by improperly...

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June 10, 2012 10:18:32 am

Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio asked the US District Court for the District of Arizona in a motion on Friday to dismiss the lawsuit pending against him that claims his office discriminated against...

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Saturday that four ICC staff members have been detained in Libya since Thursday. They traveled to Libya Wednesday to meet with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi ,...

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Defense lawyers for the alleged architect of the USS Cole bombing, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , on Friday requested that the court allow for worldwide broadcast of the Guantanamo trial, instead of limited broadcast...

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June 5, 2012 08:39:36 am

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday indicted a leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party for alleged human rights atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan, making him the fifth...

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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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