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News HRW cites lessons from Bosnia war crimes prosecution
HRW cites lessons from Bosnia war crimes prosecution
Julia Zebley
March 13, 2012 09:05:26 am

Lessons can be learned from the successes and failures of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and its prosecution of war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report ...

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News Wisconsin voter ID law ruled unconstitutional
Wisconsin voter ID law ruled unconstitutional
Julia Zebley
March 13, 2012 08:18:14 am

A Dane County Circuit Court judge Monday ruled that Wisconsin Act 23 is unconstitutional, after a different judge issued a temporary injunction last week. Act 23 modified current voting laws by...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on equal protection in taxation
Supreme Court hears arguments on equal protection in taxation
Julia Zebley
March 1, 2012 07:49:09 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Armour v. Indianapolis on tax equality under the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. In Indianapolis, a tax scheme was...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on jurisdiction over constitutional claims
Julia Zebley
February 28, 2012 11:07:58 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Monday. In Elgin v. Department of Treasury , the court heard arguments on whether federal district courts have jurisdiction over constitutional...

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News EU Kosovo authorites arrest 6 Serbia government agents
EU Kosovo authorites arrest 6 Serbia government agents
Julia Zebley
February 28, 2012 08:48:42 am

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) announced Monday that it arrested six Serbian officials in Kosovo on Saturday, under allegations that they were "suspected of exerting undue pressure ...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on false claims of military honors
Julia Zebley
February 23, 2012 09:49:39 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday. In United States v. Alvarez , the court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act (SVA) ....

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News Supreme Court rules officers entitled to qualified immunity on defective warrants
Supreme Court rules officers entitled to qualified immunity on defective warrants
Julia Zebley
February 23, 2012 08:45:37 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Messerschmidt v. Millender that police officers continue to have qualified immunity if a search warrant is later found invalid. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for...

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Charges dropped against Bahrain opposition leader
Julia Zebley
February 21, 2012 08:35:54 am

A court in Bahrain's capital, Manama, on Monday dropped the last charges against former member of parliament and Al-Wefaq leader Matar Matar . Two previous charges were dropped against Matar in August: "calling for...

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Ecuador court rejects injunction on Chevron fine
Julia Zebley
February 21, 2012 07:40:10 am

The Provincial Court of Justice of Sucumbios in Lago Agrio, Ecuador denied an arbitration decision by The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) on Friday, forwarding an appeal by Chevron ...

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February 9, 2012 08:47:30 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Wednesday allowed "secret evidence" to be used against an Iraqi refugee for terrorism charges, finding probable cause that he is "an agent of...

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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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