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News UN supports measures by India and China to limit use of death penalty
UN supports measures by India and China to limit use of death penalty
Bradley McAllister
September 12, 2015 03:11:42 pm

Two independent human rights experts from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday offered support for recent measures by India and China to limit the use of...

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News Guatemala ex-president maintains innocence at court appearance
Guatemala ex-president maintains innocence at court appearance
Bradley McAllister
September 5, 2015 12:45:28 pm

Former Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina declared his innocence Friday at his hearing for corruption charges. Judge Migues Angel Galvez suspended proceedings until Tuesday. Molina resigned on Thursday amid corruption charges related to...

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News Hungary lawmakers approve emergency laws to address migration crisis
Hungary lawmakers approve emergency laws to address migration crisis
Bradley McAllister
September 5, 2015 12:03:35 pm

The Hungarian National Assembly on Friday passed a number of emergency measures to address the recent mass migration into Europe. The bill declares a state of emergency in Hungary and establishes...

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News Three Al Jazeera journalists receive multi-year prison sentence in Egypt
Three Al Jazeera journalists receive multi-year prison sentence in Egypt
Bradley McAllister
August 29, 2015 05:47:28 pm

On appeal from a guilty verdict in 2014, three Al Jazeera journalists on Saturday received a three-year prison sentence for their roles in releasing video footage that allegedly contained false news in support of...

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News UN Secretary General urges global community to address migration issues
UN Secretary General urges global community to address migration issues
Bradley McAllister
August 29, 2015 05:18:41 pm

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the global community to develop comprehensive solutions to allow for safe and legal migration after 70 bodies, believed to be Syrian asylum seekers, were discovered in a...

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News US Department of Justice files sealed opposition in Guantanamo Habeas case
US Department of Justice files sealed opposition in Guantanamo Habeas case
Bradley McAllister
August 16, 2015 11:11:36 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday submitted a sealed document in opposition to the habeas corpus petition of Tariq Ba Odah, despite a 2009 government security review that cleared Ba Odah for...

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News EU officials open antitrust investigation into e-commerce
EU officials open antitrust investigation into e-commerce
Bradley McAllister
May 7, 2015 11:44:46 am

The European Commission on Wednesday opened an investigation into potential antitrust violations in the e-commerce market with the scope of the investigation including a number of the world's largest technology and search companies. The commission seeks to...

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News Burundi police arrest opposition leader for insurrection after meeting with African ministers
Burundi police arrest opposition leader for insurrection after meeting with African ministers
Bradley McAllister
May 7, 2015 10:42:16 am

Burundi authorities arrested political opposition leader Audifax Ndabitoreye on Wednesday shortly after he met with East African Community (EAC) ministers in the capital city of Bujumbura. Ndabitoreye was arrested for insurrection , and the police displayed...

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News Supreme Court to rule in pair of cases involving federal energy regulation
Supreme Court to rule in pair of cases involving federal energy regulation
Bradley McAllister
May 4, 2015 03:22:45 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari and consolidated a pair of cases that concern the scope of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authority to regulate demand response technology based...

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News Supreme Court rules denial of proposed bankruptcy repayment plan not final action
Supreme Court rules denial of proposed bankruptcy repayment plan not final action
Bradley McAllister
May 4, 2015 11:00:56 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Bullard v. Blue Hills Bank that a bankruptcy court's order denying confirmation of a debtor's proposed repayment plan is not a final order that the debtor...

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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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