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News Homeowner’s insurance does not cover failure to prevent sexual abuse: Wisconsin court
Homeowner’s insurance does not cover failure to prevent sexual abuse: Wisconsin court
Steve Czajkowski
July 17, 2008 06:07:00 am

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin on Wednesday ruled that a homeowner's insurance policy does not cover a wife's negligence in not preventing her husband, who was covered by the same policy, from sexually abusing...

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News ICC effort to arrest Sudan president criticized by international organizations
ICC effort to arrest Sudan president criticized by international organizations
Devin Montgomery
July 16, 2008 02:42:00 pm

The Arab League , African Union (AU) and others have criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's Monday application  for an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC...

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News Kurdish lawmakers protest draft election bill by walking out of Iraq parliament
Kurdish lawmakers protest draft election bill by walking out of Iraq parliament
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 02:21:00 pm

Kurdish legislators staged a walkout of the Iraqi Parliament Tuesday, delaying a vote on a proposed provincial election bill that they say is unconstitutional. Kurdish lawmakers objected to an attached proposal that would establish a provincial council...

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News US Justice Department continues efforts to punish former Nazis
US Justice Department continues efforts to punish former Nazis
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 01:17:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington , seeking to revoke the US citizenship of an alleged World War...

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News Malaysia opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim arrested
Malaysia opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim arrested
Andrew Gilmore
July 16, 2008 01:05:00 pm

Malaysian authorities arrested opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after a warrant was issued for his arrest on sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According...

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News US Congress overrides Bush veto to pass Medicare finance law
US Congress overrides Bush veto to pass Medicare finance law
Deirdre Jurand
July 16, 2008 12:54:00 pm

The US Congress enacted a new Medicare law on Tuesday to cut Medicare expenditures by reducing Medicare payments made to insurance companies rather than those made to doctors. President George W. Bush vetoed the bill,...

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News South Korea court suspends sentence of former Samsung CEO
South Korea court suspends sentence of former Samsung CEO
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 12:39:00 pm

The Seoul Central District Court Wednesday suspended a three-year prison sentence for former Samsung Chairman and CEO Kun-Hee Lee , who was convicted of tax fraud. The court ruled that Lee should not serve prison time...

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Spain Senate ratifies EU reform treaty
Andrew Gilmore
July 16, 2008 12:26:00 pm

The Spanish Senate voted Wednesday to ratify the new EU reform treaty , also known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Jose Manuel Barroso , the president of the European Commission,...

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News China imprisons man for violating sexual harassment law
China imprisons man for violating sexual harassment law
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 16, 2008 12:01:00 pm

A Chinese office manager has become the first man to be imprisoned under a Chinese sexual harassment law passed in 2005, according to reports on Wednesday. Previous cases brought under the law have been settled through civil...

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News Enemy combatant indefinite detention ruling [4th Circuit]
Enemy combatant indefinite detention ruling [4th Circuit]
July 16, 2008 11:29:00 am

Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri and Mark A. Berman v. Commander John Pucciarelli, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, July 15, 2008 [ruling that the President is empowered by Congress to hold enemy combatants in military prison...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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 SS and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps. Read a biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted anti-Vietnam War 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.

Trial of Marquess of Queensberry begins, leading to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde

On April 2, 1895, the libel trial of the Marquess of Queensberry began on allegations that he called Oscar Wilde a "posing somdomite [sic]". The trial led to the disclosure of details of Wilde's personal life that eventually resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality. Read about the trials of Oscar Wilde.

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