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Google being investigated by South Korea for antitrust claim
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 11:33:05 am

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) , South Korea's antitrust regulator, confirmed on Friday that the country is investigating whether Google violated the country's antitrust laws. The KFTC's statement comes as a surprise as a...

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News UN rights office: Australia must address offshore detention on Nauru
UN rights office: Australia must address offshore detention on Nauru
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 10:45:50 am

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reiterated previous calls to Australia Friday to end offshore detention on Nauru. The press release notes various reports of violence, sexual assault,...

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Amnesty: Syria chlorine gas attack could be war crime
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 09:36:14 am

Amnesty International said Thursday that a suspected chlorine gas attack in Aleppo could amount to a war crime . The BBC reported Thursday that the Syrian government is suspected of using a chlorine gas attack in Aleppo,...

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News Second Amendment group challenging stun gun ban
Second Amendment group challenging stun gun ban
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 08:55:08 am

The New Jersey Second Amendment Society filed a lawsuit on behalf of a New Jersey man, Mark Cheesman, against the state's Attorney General in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey...

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South Carolina students challenge disrupting school law
Mark Casper
August 13, 2016 07:40:14 am

Four South Carolina students and a non-profit filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina Thursday challenging the state's "Disturbing Schools Law" . The plaintiffs are challenging the law,...

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DEA maintains marijuana’s dangerous drug status
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 12:01:37 pm

The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) denied requests Thursday to remove marijuana's classification as a dangerous drug. The DEA denied two separate requests by former state governors to re-classify marijuana as a Schedule II drug or...

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UN rights chief: Bulgaria arresting migrants cause for concern
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 11:21:37 am

In a statement released on Thursday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein expressed concern over Bulgaria's criminalization of migrants leaving and entering the country. Zeid stated Bulgaria's practice of arresting migrants...

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UN rights chief: Ethiopia must allow observers after deadly shooting
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 10:46:47 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called upon Ethiopia Wednesday to allow international visitors into the region where 90 protesters were shot and killed by security forces this past weekend. Saying the excessive use...

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Swiss court says Israel must pay Iran in oil dispute
Mark Casper
August 12, 2016 09:55:28 am

The Swiss Federal Tribunal on Thursday rejected an appeal by Israel, ordering Iran to be paid approximately USD $1.1 billion in a decades-old dispute over the Eliat-Ashkelon Pipeline. Switzerland's highest court rejected Israel's appeal for lack of...

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DOJ: Baltimore Police Department engages in discriminatory practices
Mark Casper
August 11, 2016 10:22:43 am

The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has engaged in tactics that violate the First and Fourth Amendments and numerous anti-discrimination laws, according to a report released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday....

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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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