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Apple urges Supreme Court to rule against Samsung
Mark Casper
July 30, 2016 09:32:27 am

In a brief filed on Friday, Apple asked the Supreme Court to rule against Samsung in its patent infringement lawsuit. Apple contended in its brief that Samsung has been unable to provide...

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Federal appeals court strikes down portions of North Carolina voting law
Mark Casper
July 29, 2016 03:43:08 pm

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Friday struck down several provisions of North Carolina's House Bill 589 (HB 589) , most notably its voter identification requirements....

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Three Ireland senior bankers sentenced to prison for fraud
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July 29, 2016 02:58:56 pm

Three former Irish bankers were sentenced to prison on Friday for conspiring to defraud customers and investors during the 2008 banking crisis. In what was Ireland's longest criminal trial ever (74 days), former CEO of Irish Life and Permanent...

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July 29, 2016 01:53:31 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday refused to dismiss bribery and fraud charges levied against US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey. Menendez, who is believed to have accepted gifts...

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July 29, 2016 01:01:22 pm

Former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva filed a petition with the UN Human Rights Committee Thursday, claiming his corruption investigation has been riddled with impartiality and abuse of power by the judge....

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6 Michigan employees indicted in Flint water crisis: report
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July 29, 2016 12:16:19 pm

The Detroit News reported Friday that six state employees have been criminally indicted in relation to the Flint water crisis. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed the criminal charges against three employees of the Department...

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July 29, 2016 11:25:15 am

Following released footage showing indigenous children being abused while in detention in Australia's Northern Territory, Amnesty International (AI) called upon the Australian government Thursday to alter its current juvenile detention policies. Among the abuses are...

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Chelsea Manning facing new charges after suicide attempt
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July 29, 2016 10:48:13 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Thursday that Chelsea Manning is being investigated for charges in relation to her recent attempt at suicide. Manning, the Army solider convicted of releasing classified and sensitive military...

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Federal judge strikes Arkansas provision restricting political ‘robocalls’
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July 29, 2016 09:54:15 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas ruled Wednesday that an Arkansas law prohibiting political "robocalls" is unconstitutional. The judge stated that the law violates the First Amendment...

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July 22, 2016 04:37:36 pm

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law which would require individuals to apply for a state-issued firearm registration number where they made their own weapons with parts they have purchased or found. Assembly Bill...

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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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