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News Pakistan lawmakers seek end to CIA drone strikes
Pakistan lawmakers seek end to CIA drone strikes
Matthew Pomy
April 13, 2012 01:40:54 pm

The Pakistani Parliament on Thursday approved recommendations for redefining the government's relationship with the US and NATO, including calling for an end to CIA drone strikes. The new plan comes in response to the incidental...

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News Netherlands high court rules UN immune from suit
Netherlands high court rules UN immune from suit
Matthew Pomy
April 13, 2012 12:37:27 pm

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled Friday that the relatives of Bosnian men murdered by Serbian forces in 1995 cannot sue the UN for failing to protect them during the massacres. The ruling...

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News President Obama signs bill banning insider trading by lawmakers
President Obama signs bill banning insider trading by lawmakers
Matthew Pomy
April 8, 2012 12:19:43 pm

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK Act) , which prohibits members and employees of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal officials from using non-public...

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News Wisconsin governor signs 51 pieces of controversial legislation
Wisconsin governor signs 51 pieces of controversial legislation
Matthew Pomy
April 8, 2012 11:35:10 am

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker on Thursday and Friday signed 51 pieces of legislation , including controversial bills regarding employment discrimination, sex education and abortion. Walker raised the ire of opponents by quietly signing the...

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News Federal judge sentences notorious arms dealer to 25 years in prison
Federal judge sentences notorious arms dealer to 25 years in prison
Matthew Pomy
April 6, 2012 01:02:04 pm

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday sentenced reputed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to 25 years imprisonment. Bout, 45, was convicted in November...

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News Illinois Supreme Court allows challenge to assault weapon ban
Illinois Supreme Court allows challenge to assault weapon ban
Matthew Pomy
April 6, 2012 11:44:10 am

The Supreme Court of Illinois ruled Thursday that a challenge to a ban on assault weapons can continue, reversing two lower court rulings dismissing the challenge. The Cook County ordinance in question prohibits the...

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News UN SG urges Cambodia to cooperate with new genocide tribunal judges
UN SG urges Cambodia to cooperate with new genocide tribunal judges
Matthew Pomy
April 1, 2012 12:07:18 pm

A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the Cambodian government to give its full cooperation to the new judges that will eventually be appointed to investigate the genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime [BBC...

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News Bahrain rights activist may face charges for participation in protests
Bahrain rights activist may face charges for participation in protests
Matthew Pomy
April 1, 2012 10:08:29 am

President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab, an outspoken critic of violent government crackdowns against protesters, may face criminal charges for the role he has played in anti-government protests, his lawyer said Sunday....

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News Judge overturns Virginia Tech campus warning system fine
Judge overturns Virginia Tech campus warning system fine
Matthew Pomy
March 30, 2012 02:20:23 pm

An administrative judge for the Department of Education overturned a $55,000 fine issued against Virginia Tech for its response to the shootings in 2007 . Judge Ernest Canellos ruled that the university's warning system...

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News Lawsuit filed against Oklahoma personhood ballot initiative
Lawsuit filed against Oklahoma personhood ballot initiative
Matthew Pomy
March 30, 2012 01:24:32 pm

Six Oklahoma voters, along with women's healthcare providers and religious groups, filed a lawsuit Thursday against an Oklahoma ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to redefine "personhood." The amendment would confer "personhood" rights...

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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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