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News Federal appeals court upholds prison sentence in witness tampering case
Federal appeals court upholds prison sentence in witness tampering case
Steve Czajkowski
August 30, 2008 08:02:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday that the conviction and 210 month prison sentence of Juan Francisco Salazar, who was convicted of tampering with a witness in a drug trial,...

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DC Circuit rules Sarbanes-Oxley board provisions constitutional
Steve Czajkowski
August 23, 2008 12:30:00 pm

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision Friday that provisions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 establishing the Public Company...

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US immigration authority abandons voluntary deportation program
Steve Czajkowski
August 23, 2008 11:37:00 am

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Friday abandoned a pilot program it created to allow certain illegal immigrants to coordinate their removal from the US with ICE without the risk of home...

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Two US Marines held in contempt in Fallujah killings civil trial
Steve Czajkowski
August 23, 2008 10:10:00 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California found two US Marines in contempt of court Friday after the two declined to testify against their former squad leader in a trial over...

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Brokerage firms reach auction rate securities agreement with regulators
Steve Czajkowski
August 22, 2008 09:26:00 am

Three of the largest brokerage firms in the US reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General's office and securities regulators representing 48 states on Thursday, agreeing to pay $10 billion to investors who...

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ICTY assigns new judges to Karadzic war crimes trial
Steve Czajkowski
August 22, 2008 08:20:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) assigned a new panel of judges Thursday to the upcoming war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic . The changes come...

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Pakistan ruling party not granting Musharraf immunity from charges
Steve Czajkowski
August 16, 2008 10:44:00 am

The possibility that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will face impeachment increased Saturday as a spokesman for the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) , the main ruling party in the country, said it will not...

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Chad court sentences ex-dictator Habre to death in absentia
Steve Czajkowski
August 16, 2008 10:10:00 am

Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre and eleven other rebel commanders were sentenced to death Friday in a Chadian court for crimes against the state after a mass trial in which dozens were tried. Habre...

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Serbia presents bid for ICJ opinion on Kosovo independence
Steve Czajkowski
August 16, 2008 09:15:00 am

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic presented a formal request to the UN General Assembly Friday seeking a determination by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's February declaration...

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UK libel law discourages free speech: UN rights committee
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August 15, 2008 11:31:00 am

The United Nations Committee on Human Rights has criticized British libel laws for stifling freedom of speech, according to Thursday media reports. In a report issued after its 93rd session in Geneva,...

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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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