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Eleventh Circuit declines full panel hearing of health care appeal
John Paul Putney
April 1, 2011 08:41:44 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday denied the petition for initial hearing en banc in the health care reform law appeal....

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Indiana Senate approves constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
John Paul Putney
April 1, 2011 07:50:16 am

The Indiana Senate overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday an amendment to the State Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage or any "substantially similar" status. The measure passed 40-10 after receiving a...

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Nokia files new round of patent suits against Apple
John Paul Putney
March 29, 2011 02:30:27 pm

Finnish telecommunications company Nokia announced Tuesday that it filed another complaint against Apple with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in addition to a lawsuit filed in Delaware. Nokia's newest complaint...

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Germany prosecutor requests 6-year sentence for alleged Nazi guard
John Paul Putney
March 22, 2011 02:10:57 pm

Germany prosecutors called Tuesday for a six-year sentence in the trial of John Demjanjuk , accused of having helped to murder 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp during his time as a guard there....

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UN warns Ivory Coast shelling may be war crime
John Paul Putney
March 18, 2011 04:05:45 pm

The UN peacekeeping operation (UNOCI) in the Ivory Coast on Thursday denounced the shelling of a market in the capital Abidjan which killed 25 to 30 civilians...

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UN rights chief urges independent probe into Ivory Coast violence
John Paul Putney
March 15, 2011 02:27:43 pm

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called for an independent investigation into post-election violence in the Ivory Coast on Monday as part of a report to the...

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EU Court of Justice rules against proposed European patent court
John Paul Putney
March 8, 2011 11:26:17 am

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a non-binding advisory opinion Tuesday that the planned European and Community Patent Court (ECPC) is incompatible with EU law. The ruling is a significant setback for EU governments that...

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John Paul Putney
March 8, 2011 10:24:01 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay pressed Tunisia and Egypt on Tuesday to ensure that women's rights receive constitutional protection and to include women in the dialogue to shape the future of their countries....

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France burqa ban to take effect April 11
John Paul Putney
March 4, 2011 04:20:19 pm

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon confirmed in the Official Journal Thursday that the controversial law banning the burqa and other face coverings in...

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Supreme Court rules corporations lack ‘personal privacy’
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March 1, 2011 02:51:23 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-0 in FCC v. AT&T that the 7(C) "personal privacy" exemption to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...

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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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