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US hedge fund founder ordered to pay record penalty for insider trading
Jamie Davis
November 9, 2011 09:39:00 am

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday ordered Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam to pay an unprecedented civil penalty for insider trading. In a thorough analysis of the...

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Spain court sentences ETA leader to 105 years for ordering murder
Jamie Davis
November 7, 2011 11:04:07 am

A Spanish court on Friday sentenced a former military leader of the Basque separatist group ETA , Francisco Javier Garcia Gatzelu, alias Txapote, to 105 years in prison for ordering the murder of Socialist politician Fernando Buesa and...

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Federal appeals court upholds conspiracy convictions in US terror plots
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November 2, 2011 10:06:36 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld the convictions of five men for conspiracy to provide support to terrorist group al Qaeda in planning attacks in the US....

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ICTY sentences Seselj to 18 months for contempt of court
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October 31, 2011 11:09:16 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday convicted former Serb nationalist and war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj of contempt and sentenced him to 18...

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October 26, 2011 10:02:36 am

The family of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi announced Wednesday that they plan to file a complaint against NATO with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its alleged role in Gaddafi's death . Lawyer...

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October 24, 2011 11:13:15 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) to investigate the apparent "mass execution" of 53 Muammar Gaddafi supporters whose bodies were discovered at...

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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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