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Lebanon police arrest radical Muslim cleric convicted of terrorism
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November 16, 2010 08:08:32 am

Lebanese authorities on Monday arrested Syrian national and radical Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed, less than a week after he was convicted of terrorism by a military court. Bakri was after a gunfire riddled car chase arrested ...

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Bosnia authorities arrest Srebrenica war crimes suspect
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November 16, 2010 07:01:51 am

A suspected Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war criminal was arrested Monday in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the end of 1992-95 Bosnian civil war . The Prosecutors Office for BiH announced...

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China court rules against plaintiff in first HIV employment discrimination suit
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November 12, 2010 03:36:38 pm

A Chinese court ruled Friday against a man who claimed he was denied a teaching job because he is HIV-positive, in China's first HIV/AIDs employment discrimination lawsuit. The man, known only by the alias Xiao Wu, said that he...

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France ex-president Chirac ordered to face second corruption trial
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November 9, 2010 09:06:53 am

A French judge on Monday ordered former president Jacques Chirac to stand trial on a second set of charges in connection with the funding of his political party during his time as mayor of...

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Federal judge temporarily blocks Oklahoma amendment banning use of Islamic law
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A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on Monday temporarily blocked a state constitutional amendment banning courts from considering international or Islamic Law. Chief Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a...

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A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday ordered further review of a lower court decision to release Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Olud...

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November 2, 2010 08:06:55 am

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon told the House of Commons Monday that the Harper administration has agreed to accept Guantanamo Bay detainee and convicted terrorist Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST...

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Ninth Circuit hears arguments on Arizona immigration law
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November 2, 2010 07:04:30 am

A three-judge panel of US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments Monday on Arizona's controversial immigration law . The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has argued...

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October 29, 2010 01:44:17 pm

A coalition of 37 public interest groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Alliance for Justice , sent a letter to the Senate Thursday urging...

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October 26, 2010 08:27:15 am

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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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