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News Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko’s tax evasion trial postponed due to health
Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko’s tax evasion trial postponed due to health
Julia Zebley
April 28, 2012 11:43:08 am

A judge for the Kyivsky District Court of Kharkiv ruled Saturday that a tax evasion hearing for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko will be postponed until May 21, due to health concerns. Tymoshenko's...

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Canada government appealing prostitution ruling to Supreme Court
Julia Zebley
April 26, 2012 12:54:03 pm

Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced Wednesday that the government will appeal a recent prostitution ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada . The decision rendered three portions of the nation's...

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News Pakistan high court convicts PM of contempt
Pakistan high court convicts PM of contempt
Julia Zebley
April 26, 2012 12:00:31 pm

The Supreme Court of Pakistan convicted Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of contempt of court Wednesday for disobeying a court order to open corruption cases against President Asif Ali...

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News Padilla appeals dismissal of unlawful detention suit to Supreme Court
Padilla appeals dismissal of unlawful detention suit to Supreme Court
Julia Zebley
April 24, 2012 02:29:09 pm

US citizen and convicted terrorist Jose Padilla filed a petition for certiorari with the US Supreme Court on Monday, appealing the dismissal of his lawsuit against US officials...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on bankruptcy auction procedures
Julia Zebley
April 24, 2012 12:26:02 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank . The issue is whether a debtor may propose a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan that sells...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on federal payment for American Indian tribes
Julia Zebley
April 19, 2012 09:18:23 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter on whether the federal government must pay American Indian tribes all contract-related costs incurred under the Indian...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on Fair Labor Standards Act
Julia Zebley
April 17, 2012 07:06:06 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. on the breadth of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regarding pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs)...

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News Connecticut House passes death penalty repeal
Connecticut House passes death penalty repeal
Julia Zebley
April 12, 2012 09:13:23 am

The Connecticut House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to repeal the death penalty by a vote of 86-63. The Connecticut Senate passed the bill last week . After the bill's final passage, Governor...

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First Circuit hears arguments on Defense of Marriage Act
Julia Zebley
April 5, 2012 07:02:28 am

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard arguments on the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Wednesday, in the first appellate hearing on...

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Mladic pleads not guilty to all charges of war crimes
Julia Zebley
April 5, 2012 06:01:50 am

Former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic pleaded not guilty to all charges in a pre-trial brief released Wednesday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)...

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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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