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News Croatia indicts former interior minister for war crimes
Croatia indicts former interior minister for war crimes
Julia Zebley
June 10, 2011 10:16:51 am

Croatian authorities on Thursday charged former military commander and senior interior minister Tomislav Mercep for war crimes committed against Serbians during the 1990s conflict in the Balkans. The Municipal Court in...

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Supreme Court finds fleeing in vehicle is violent felony
Julia Zebley
June 9, 2011 01:59:54 pm

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 in Sykes v. United States that fleeing after being ordered to stop is a violent felony within the meaning of the Armed...

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Supreme Court rules for FCC interpretation of Telecommunications Act
Julia Zebley
June 9, 2011 12:12:51 pm

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously in Talk America Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co. that a state utility commission may require an incumbent carrier...

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News Iowa House passes 18-week abortion ban
Iowa House passes 18-week abortion ban
Julia Zebley
June 9, 2011 09:26:26 am

The Iowa House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 54 - 37 in favor of a bill that would effectively ban abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy, making it...

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UN rights body demands China report on missing persons
Julia Zebley
June 8, 2011 03:07:55 pm

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances called Wednesday for China to address its practice of "enforced disappearances" and reveal the location of 355 detained Tibetan monks . In April, Chinese...

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Sierra Leone war crimes court indicts five for witness tampering
Julia Zebley
June 8, 2011 12:48:40 pm

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday indicted five men for contempt over allegations of witness tampering. Two indictees include former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council...

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Rights groups urge Kyrgyzstan to improve judicial system
Julia Zebley
June 8, 2011 09:16:12 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday criticized Kyrgyzstan's lack of judicial progress, marking the one-year anniversary of the June 2010 ethnic violence that resulted in more...

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UN denounces Qatar extradition of Libya rape victim
Julia Zebley
June 3, 2011 01:16:37 pm

A United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson on Friday condemned Qatar's extradition of rape victim Eman Al Obeidi to her home country of Libya . UNCHR spokesperson, Adrian Edwards, said...

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Fourth Circuit finds it can rule on health care law challenge
Julia Zebley
June 3, 2011 12:12:15 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decided Thursday there is no conflict with the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA) and that it can rule on two challenges to the health care reform [text; JURIST news...

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Mladic receives month extension to review charges
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June 3, 2011 10:08:23 am

Ratko Mladic made his first appearance Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , contesting the charges while simultaneously asking for more time to review...

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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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