Jurist
DONATE NOW
  • News ▾
    • All Legal News
    • US Legal News
    • World Legal News
    • This Day @ Law
  • Dispatches ▾
    • All Dispatches
    • Afghanistan
    • Canada
    • EU
    • Ghana
    • India
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Italy
    • Kazakhstan
    • Kenya
    • Myanmar
    • Pakistan
    • Peru
    • Romania
    • Sri Lanka
    • Taiwan
    • UK
    • Ukraine
    • US
  • Commentary ▾
    • All Commentary
    • Faculty Commentary
    • Professional Commentary
    • Student Commentary
  • Features ▾
    • All Features
    • Explainers
    • Long Reads
    • Multimedia
    • Interviews
  • Topics
  • Rule of Law ▾
    • Materials
    • Podcasts
  • About ▾
    • FAQ
    • Staff
    • Awards
    • Apply
    • Journalist in Residence
    • Board of Directors
    • Contact Us
  • Donate ▾
    • Why Support JURIST?
    • Donate
    • Honor Roll
News Utah Supreme Court overturns university ban on firearms
Utah Supreme Court overturns university ban on firearms
Lisl Brunner
September 9, 2006 02:47:00 pm

The Utah Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a University of Utah policy banning firearms on campus violates state law. In a 4-1 opinion , the court rejected the university's argument that as an autonomous...

READ MORE ▸
News European Commission chief urges unity on illegal immigration policy
European Commission chief urges unity on illegal immigration policy
Lisl Brunner
September 8, 2006 10:33:00 am

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called on all European Union (EU) member states to collaborate in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants. On Thursday, Barroso wrote a letter to the heads...

READ MORE ▸
News Federal judge lets Islamic foundation’s surveillance suit proceed
Federal judge lets Islamic foundation’s surveillance suit proceed
Lisl Brunner
September 8, 2006 09:50:00 am

A federal judge in Oregon has allowed a lawsuit by the US branch of the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation to proceed against the US government over the warrantless wiretapping of communications between the...

READ MORE ▸
News Justice Kennedy back at work after weekend hospital procedure
Justice Kennedy back at work after weekend hospital procedure
Lisl Brunner
September 5, 2006 08:56:00 pm

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy underwent a "routine" stent replacement procedure at Washington Hospital Center on Saturday after complaining of chest pains, spokesperson Kathy Arberg revealed in a Tuesday statement [via...

READ MORE ▸
News Iran parliament approves draft law to keep out nuclear inspectors
Iran parliament approves draft law to keep out nuclear inspectors
Lisl Brunner
September 5, 2006 08:09:00 pm

The Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved a draft of a bill to bar inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from entering the country if the UN Security Council imposes...

READ MORE ▸
News NYT researcher appeals China fraud sentence
NYT researcher appeals China fraud sentence
Lisl Brunner
September 5, 2006 07:13:00 pm

New York Times researcher Zhao Yan is appealing the three-year prison sentence he received last week from a Beijing court that convicted him of fraud. Zhao was charged with accepting $2,500...

READ MORE ▸
News Central African Republic ex-president convicted for fraud in absentia
Central African Republic ex-president convicted for fraud in absentia
Lisl Brunner
August 29, 2006 02:36:00 pm

Former Central African Republic President Ange Felix Patasse was convicted in absentia Tuesday on fraud charges and sentenced to 20 years hard labor. Patasse and four other members of his former government have been charged with embezzlement...

READ MORE ▸
News Families seek damages from French railroad for carrying Jews to WWII camps
Families seek damages from French railroad for carrying Jews to WWII camps
Lisl Brunner
August 29, 2006 02:04:00 pm

Two hundred families plan later this week to demand damages from SNCF , the French state-run railway system, in connection with the company's transportation of Jewish families to German concentration camps during World War II. The demand comes...

READ MORE ▸
News FEC deadlocks on grassroots lobby exemption from political advertising rules
FEC deadlocks on grassroots lobby exemption from political advertising rules
Lisl Brunner
August 29, 2006 01:20:00 pm

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday failed to adopt a proposed rule to exempt interest groups from "electioneering communications," tying 3-3 instead. The measure, proposed earlier this month by FEC Commissioner Hans...

READ MORE ▸
News Cambodia selects judges to try Khmer Rouge genocide cases
Cambodia selects judges to try Khmer Rouge genocide cases
Lisl Brunner
May 4, 2006 02:27:00 pm

Cambodia's Supreme Council of Magistracy on Thursday appointed 30 judges to preside over the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia , the joint Cambodia-UN tribunal that will try Khmer Rouge leaders for...

READ MORE ▸
  1. Newest
  2. Newer
  3. ...
  4. 16
  5. 17
  6. 18
  7. 19
  8. 20
  9. ...
  10. Older
  11. Oldest
Law students to join jurist
GET OUR DAILY DIGEST
LinkedIn YouTube Instagram Facebook RSS Twitter
Latest DISPATCHES
Dispatches

Dispatches

Peru dispatch: protesters demand new elections as death toll from political violence surges under newly sworn-in president

Peru dispatch: protesters demand new elections as death toll from political violence surges under newly sworn-in president

Latest COMMENTARY
comments 1

comments 1

by justia.admin
Post september 4

Post september 4

by Anonymous
Latest FEATURES
My features post

My features post

Features 4

Features 4

THIS DAY @ LAW

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).

Jurist
Home Attributions Disclaimer Privacy Policy Contact Us
Copyright © 2026, JURIST Legal News & Research Services, Inc.
JURISTnews is a collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh