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News New charges formalized against Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko
New charges formalized against Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko
Julia Zebley
November 12, 2011 01:14:06 pm

The State Tax Service of the Ukraine on Friday announced formal charges against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for embezzlement and tax evasion. The new charges allege [RIA...

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News Mississippi passes voter ID requirement
Mississippi passes voter ID requirement
Julia Zebley
November 9, 2011 07:27:10 am

Mississippi voters on Tuesday approved the Mississippi Voter Identification Petition by 62 percent, creating a new requirement that voters show government-issued photo identification at the polls. The ballot included a disclaimer explaining a government-issued...

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News New Jersey voters allow state-wide sports gambling
New Jersey voters allow state-wide sports gambling
Julia Zebley
November 9, 2011 06:46:56 am

New Jersey voters on Tuesday ratified Public Question 1 by a 65 percent margin, amending the New Jersey constitution to legalize sports gambling in the state despite a continued federal ban. The referendum, in...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on GPS tracking, prosecutorial misconduct
Supreme Court hears arguments on GPS tracking, prosecutorial misconduct
Julia Zebley
November 8, 2011 12:58:43 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday. In US v. Jones , the court will decide whether the government's warrantless use of a global positioning systems...

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News Four new charges against Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko
Four new charges against Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko
Julia Zebley
November 7, 2011 01:06:51 pm

The State Tax Service of the Ukraine is reopening four cases against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , her lawyer reported on her website on Monday. The charges allege tax evasion...

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Ohio passes law limiting abortions for minors
Julia Zebley
November 5, 2011 03:49:22 pm

Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday signed into law House Bill 63 , creating further restrictions on minors if they seek an abortion without parental consent. The new law...

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Federal judge moves Ohio execution forward, endorses new restrictions
Julia Zebley
November 5, 2011 02:34:15 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Friday rejected the appeal of condemned murderer Reginald Brooks, affirming but not definitively ruling on Ohio's new death penalty [JURIST...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on government immunity, prisoner rights
Julia Zebley
November 2, 2011 08:31:10 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday. In Rehberg v. Paulk , the court considered whether government officials who act as "complaining witnesses" to initiate a...

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News Ninth Circuit allows Papua New Guineans to sue mining company for genocide
Ninth Circuit allows Papua New Guineans to sue mining company for genocide
Julia Zebley
October 26, 2011 08:56:20 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit by Papua New Guinea citizens against mining company Rio Tinto on claims of genocide and war crimes....

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Federal judge compels release of Secure Communities document
Julia Zebley
October 26, 2011 07:53:19 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday ordered the federal government to release a memorandum concerning the Secure Communities Program , a controversial immigration [JURIST news...

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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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