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News Report concludes that Oil-for-Food head "seriously undermined" UN integrity
Report concludes that Oil-for-Food head "seriously undermined" UN integrity
Jeannie Shawl
February 3, 2005 03:04:00 pm

Following up on a story reported this morning on JURIST's Paper Chase, the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) into the UN Oil-for-Food program has released its interim report . The report concludes that the conduct...

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News Malaysia softens stance on illegal immigration
Malaysia softens stance on illegal immigration
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 04:07:00 pm

Malaysian officials extended Malaysia's amnesty for illegal immigrants indefinitely Wednesday based on a request from Indonesia, according to Home Minister Azmi Khalid. Indonesia, whose citizens make up a majority of illegal immigrants in Malaysia, asked that the...

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News Idaho Senate defeats same-sex marriage ban
Idaho Senate defeats same-sex marriage ban
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 03:15:00 pm

Members of the Idaho Senate voted against a proposal to ban same-sex marriages Wednesday for the second consecutive year. The defeated measure would have amended the Idaho Constitution to read: SECTION 28. MARRIAGE. Only a...

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News Federal judge orders CIA to turn over Iraqi prisoner records
Federal judge orders CIA to turn over Iraqi prisoner records
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 02:50:00 pm

US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled Wednesday that the Central Intelligence Agency should comply with Freedom of Information Act requests made by the American Civil Liberties Union and turn over its records concerning the...

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News US House bill introduced to help shield reporters
US House bill introduced to help shield reporters
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 02:16:00 pm

A bill seeking to impose stricter standards on federal courts before they can issue subpoenas to reporters was introduced in the US House Wednesday. According to Congressman Mike Pence , the Free Flow...

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NYSE releases report on former head’s compensation
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 01:26:00 pm

The New York Stock Exchange released a previously confidential report Wednesday that provides details of former Chairman Richard Grasso's compensation package. New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos ruled last week that the so-called Webb...

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News Kansas house ready to approve amendment to ban same-sex marriage
Kansas house ready to approve amendment to ban same-sex marriage
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 01:19:00 pm

The Kansas House of Representatives has given its preliminary approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and would prohibit the state from allowing civil unions or granting benefits normally associated with...

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News EU supports UN plan to try Sudan war criminals at ICC
EU supports UN plan to try Sudan war criminals at ICC
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 12:46:00 pm

A European Union spokesperson said Wednesday that the EU supports the UN proposal to try those suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur at the International Criminal...

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News Thousands turned away from Iraq polls due to lack of ballots
Thousands turned away from Iraq polls due to lack of ballots
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 08:30:00 am

Iraqi interim President Ghazi al-Yawer has said that tens of thousands of would-be voters were unable to vote in the Iraqi elections because several polling places, including those in Baghdad, Basra and Najaf ran...

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Bosnia asks for release of six Gitmo detainees
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 07:45:00 am

Bosnian officials have asked the US government to hand over six men detained at Guantanamo Bay after families of the men staged a protest in Sarajevo . The six, all Algerians, were arrested in October 2001 on...

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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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