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High school students undervalue First Amendment – study
Russell Adkins
January 31, 2005 09:10:00 pm

Findings of a new survey of American high school students announced Monday suggest that more than one in three believes that the First Amendment "goes too far" in the rights it grants and protects, while half of...

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UPDATE ~ First New England execution in 45 years put on hold
Russell Adkins
January 31, 2005 07:40:00 pm

Updating an earlier JURIST story, Connecticut has postponed Monday's scheduled execution of convicted serial killer Michael Ross , putting off what would be New England's first execution in 45 years after Ross' attorney filed a motion questioning the...

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News Released Briton details assault, torture at Guantanamo
Released Briton details assault, torture at Guantanamo
Russell Adkins
January 30, 2005 03:03:00 pm

Another former Guantanamo Bay prisoner has come forward with allegations of torture and abuse by US personnel. Sunday's UK Independent newspaper has disclosed that British national Moazzam Begg , one of four Britons released from the facility last...

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News German high court judge revives controversy over neo-Nazi party
German high court judge revives controversy over neo-Nazi party
Russell Adkins
January 30, 2005 02:15:00 pm

The president of Germany's Constitutional Court said Sunday that despite the failure of past government efforts, the extreme right-wing National Democratic Party (NPD) could still be banned under German law, renewing interest in outlawing the...

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Former Gitmo soldier describes sexual interrogation tactics
Russell Adkins
January 27, 2005 09:32:00 pm

Female interrogators at the US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay used various sexual tactics, including touching, provocative attire, and even smearing a prisoner's face with fake menstrual blood in their attempts to obtain information from Muslim detainees, according...

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FCC won’t appeal Third Circuit ruling on media ownership restrictions
Russell Adkins
January 27, 2005 08:52:00 pm

Fearful that going before the Supreme Court could jeopardize the entirety of its media ownership limits, the FCC will not seek to challenge a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ...

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US lawmakers call for pressure on Sudan to halt violence
Russell Adkins
January 27, 2005 07:38:00 pm

Responding to violence in Sudan's western Darfur region that has claimed some 70,000 lives, US lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill Thursday to call on world leaders to put pressure on both rebels and government forces...

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News Limits on class-action awards head GOP Senate agenda
Limits on class-action awards head GOP Senate agenda
Russell Adkins
January 24, 2005 07:46:00 pm

US Senate Republicans Monday announced that in the new Congressional session they will consider putting limits on awards in class-action lawsuits before taking on President George W. Bush's top domestic goal of Social Security privatization. In an...

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Leading Iraqi candidate fears electoral fraud
Russell Adkins
January 24, 2005 10:35:00 am

A leading candidate on the Shiite Muslim ticket for this week's elections in Iraq has said that he fears the landmark poll could be tarnished by fraud and abuse. Iraqi Finance Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi indicated that...

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British army faces 9 new allegations of Iraqi prisoner abuse
Russell Adkins
January 23, 2005 02:50:00 pm

The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that British army prosecutors have completed an inquiry into nine more allegations of brutality by British soldiers in Iraq and are contemplating whether to file charges, Sunday's Observer reports. Four...

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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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