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News Federal appeals court halts execution of mentally ill Texas inmate
Federal appeals court halts execution of mentally ill Texas inmate
Peter Snyder
December 4, 2014 01:12:59 pm

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday halted the execution of a Texas death row inmate allegedly suffering from severe mental illness. The inmate, Scott Panetti, was...

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News Wanted Nazi war criminal died in Syria four years ago: report
Wanted Nazi war criminal died in Syria four years ago: report
Peter Snyder
December 1, 2014 01:31:33 pm

Nazi-hunter and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Efraim Zuroff told the BBC Monday that he is certain that wanted Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria four years ago. Zuroff said that new...

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News Nigeria rights groups seeking war crimes investigation
Nigeria rights groups seeking war crimes investigation
Peter Snyder
December 1, 2014 01:02:20 pm

Access to Justice (A2Justice) and eight other civil rights groups brought Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan before the Federal High Court in Abuja Monday with the goal of forcing an investigation into alleged war crimes committed...

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News France plans to recognize Palestinian state if peace talks fail
France plans to recognize Palestinian state if peace talks fail
Peter Snyder
November 28, 2014 11:48:37 am

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in a speech before parliament Friday stated that France would recognize a Palestinian state if international efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fails. The French Parliament will hold a symbolic...

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News UK PM threatens to leave EU if no welfare payments changes allowed
UK PM threatens to leave EU if no welfare payments changes allowed
Peter Snyder
November 28, 2014 11:16:48 am

UK Prime Minister David Cameron in a speech Friday raised the possibility of the UK leaving the EU if other member state leaders block plans to restrict access to welfare payments for migrants. Cameron outlined proposed welfare...

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China high court to investigate ways to reduce death penalty crimes
Peter Snyder
November 24, 2014 01:39:23 pm

China's highest court, the Supreme People's Court will investigate ways of reducing the number of crimes punishable by death according to remarks by Hu Yunteng, a senior researcher at the Supreme People's Court, published Monday....

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Israel Cabinet approves draft of Jewish ‘nation state’ law
Peter Snyder
November 24, 2014 01:11:07 pm

The Cabinet of Israel on Sunday approved draft legislation that would official define Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. The controversial law, titled "Israel, the Nation-State of the Jewish People," passed the Cabinet 14 votes to...

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ICC prosecutor contemplating war crimes charges against Islamic State fighters: report
Peter Snyder
November 20, 2014 02:11:49 pm

The Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Fatou Bensouda , said in an interview published Thursday that the ICC is contemplating bringing war crimes charges against Islamic State (IS)...

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EU high court advisor rejects UK challenge to banker bonus cap legislation
Peter Snyder
November 20, 2014 01:43:36 pm

Advocate General Niilo Jaaskinen of the European Court of Justice issued an opinion Thursday endorsing an EU plan to cap bankers' bonuses. The UK had challenged the cap, which restricts bonuses...

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Supreme court agrees to hear two cases involving mortgage liens
Peter Snyder
November 17, 2014 12:33:18 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two bankruptcy cases on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , consolidating them for one hour of oral argument....

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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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