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News Illinois pharmacists objecting to morning-after pill sue Walgreens
Illinois pharmacists objecting to morning-after pill sue Walgreens
Elizabeth Schultz
January 29, 2006 09:45:00 am

Walgreens is being sued by four Illinois pharmacists who claim that they were illegally fired for refusing to sign a pledge promising to dispense the morning-after birth control pill. Walgreens asked the pharmacists to...

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News Lebanon says initial UN talks on Hariri tribunal ‘fruitful’
Lebanon says initial UN talks on Hariri tribunal ‘fruitful’
Elizabeth Schultz
January 29, 2006 09:36:00 am

Lebanese government officials have called "fruitful" initial consultations with visiting UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel on the establishment of an international tribunal for suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister...

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News Iraq Justice Ministry still expects US to free women prisoners
Iraq Justice Ministry still expects US to free women prisoners
Elizabeth Schultz
January 22, 2006 11:55:00 am

Iraq's Justice Ministry said Sunday that it anticipates US authorities will release six detained Iraqi women this week despite US denials . An anonymous Justice Ministry official said a review board made up of six...

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News Army interrogator convicted of negligent homicide in Iraqi general’s death
Army interrogator convicted of negligent homicide in Iraqi general’s death
Elizabeth Schultz
January 22, 2006 11:17:00 am

A jury of US Army officers late Saturday night found Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer, Jr. guilty of negligent homicide and negligent dereliction of duty in the death of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush by suffocation in a...

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News Egypt court says forgery sophistication prompted Nour conviction
Egypt court says forgery sophistication prompted Nour conviction
Elizabeth Schultz
January 22, 2006 10:39:00 am

The Egyptian court that in December sentenced opposition leader Ayman Nour to five years in prison for forging signatures to register his Al-Ghad party in last year's presidential election said Saturday that it had convicted...

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News Eminent domain activists protest at Souter home
Eminent domain activists protest at Souter home
Elizabeth Schultz
January 22, 2006 09:59:00 am

Activists opposed to the controversial June 2005 US Supreme Court eminent domain ruling in Kelo v. New London which allowed the city of New London, Connecticut to expropriate private property for private redevelopment conferring economic...

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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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