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Wisconsin DOJ appeals injunction on new voter ID law
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March 23, 2012 10:29:55 am

The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday appealed two decisions by the Dane County Circuit Court blocking Wisconsin's new voter identification law . The DOJ filed on behalf of the defendants in...

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Myanmar violence continues in northern Kachin state: HRW
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March 20, 2012 02:25:57 pm

Violence and rights abuses continue in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. HRW claims that a significant number of civilians are subject to abuses due to the conflict between Myanmar's...

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Pakistan lawmakers call on US to stop CIA drone attacks
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March 20, 2012 01:06:57 pm

The Pakistani parliamentary national security committee on Tuesday urged the US to stop the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone attacks . The relationship between the two countries has suffered since a NATO airstrike in November...

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Federal judge dismisses motion to reinstate Saudi Arabia as 9/11 defendant
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March 16, 2012 11:15:29 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Thursday dismissed a motion to reinstate Saudi Arabia as a defendant in the civil compensation lawsuit by victims and commercial insurers...

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Philippines court orders arrest of ex-president’s husband
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March 13, 2012 01:57:54 pm

A Philippines court on Tuesday issued an arrest order for the husband of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , Jose Miguel Arroyo, on bribery charges. He was accused of accepting bribes to support the $329-million national...

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Syria rights situation worsening: UN expert
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March 13, 2012 12:49:08 pm

Paulo Pinheiro, chairperson of the UN-appointed Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, on Monday told the UN Human Right Council in Geneva that the number of people suffering from the intensified violence in Syria...

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UK PM proposes adoption reforms
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March 9, 2012 10:15:03 pm

United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron spoke on new plans to reform the nation's adoption process, basing it on speed rather than ethnicity. Currently, white children are three times more likely to be adopted than...

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March 9, 2012 07:15:36 pm

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo expressed his support on Thursday for a campaign by Invisible Children to capture alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony [BBC profile; JURIST...

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March 2, 2012 10:21:09 am

Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for Sudanese Defense Minister Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein. He is charged with 41 counts of crimes committed in...

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March 2, 2012 09:42:17 am

Maryland joined the seven states that allow same-sex marriage when Governor Martin O'Malley (D) signed the Civil Marriage Protection Act on Thursday. With signing the bill the governor released the...

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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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