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News California sues EPA over auto emissions waiver denial
California sues EPA over auto emissions waiver denial
Ryan Olden
January 2, 2008 03:40:00 pm

California filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday challenging the agency's decision to deny the state's request for a waiver that would have allowed it and...

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News Pakistan commisson to probe Bhutto killing unrest prompting election delay
Pakistan commisson to probe Bhutto killing unrest prompting election delay
Ryan Olden
January 2, 2008 03:00:00 pm

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday in a televised address that he was setting up a special commission to investigate widespread violence that broke out in the wake of last week's assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [JURIST...

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News Bhutto husband calls for Hariri-style probe into assassination
Bhutto husband calls for Hariri-style probe into assassination
Ryan Olden
December 30, 2007 02:53:00 pm

The husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto called Sunday for an international investigation into the circumstances surrounding Bhutto's assassination last week. Asif Ali Zardari urged the United Nations to conduct...

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News DC city government seeks en banc rehearing of gun ban case
DC city government seeks en banc rehearing of gun ban case
Ryan Olden
April 9, 2007 08:01:00 pm

The city government of Washington, DC on Monday asked the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals for an en banc rehearing of a case that led to a controversial ruling last month invalidating...

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Federal judge rejects mistrial motion in Conrad Black case
Ryan Olden
April 9, 2007 07:14:00 pm

Judge Amy St. Eve of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a motion Monday for a mistrial in the prosecution of Canadian-born former media mogul Conrad Black [CBC backgrounder; JURIST...

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Lebanon parliament petitions UN to mandate Hariri tribunal
Ryan Olden
April 3, 2007 08:17:00 pm

The anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanon parliament on Tuesday approved a petition asking UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to create a tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri...

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US intelligence agents using secret prisons in Ethiopia: AP
Ryan Olden
April 3, 2007 07:23:00 pm

United States intelligence agents from the FBI and the CIA have been using secret prisons in Ethiopia to conduct interrogations, according to AP Tuesday. The report...

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Death penalty repeal bill fails in New Hampshire House
Ryan Olden
March 27, 2007 08:35:00 pm

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted Tuesday to reject proposed legislation which would have effectively ended the death penalty in the state. Had it passed, the proposed law would have...

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News Iowa Senate votes to extend civil rights protections to gays and lesbians
Iowa Senate votes to extend civil rights protections to gays and lesbians
Ryan Olden
March 27, 2007 07:33:00 pm

The Iowa Senate on Tuesday passed SF427 , extending the state's civil rights protections to gay and lesbians. The controversial legislation would officially add gender identity and sexual orientation to the list of groups protected from discrimination...

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Bush tells Congress to accept compromise on White House US Attorney testimony
Ryan Olden
March 20, 2007 07:43:00 pm

US President George W. Bush warned Congressional Democrats Tuesday to accept his compromise to allow top White House aides to testify about the firings of US Attorneys before the Senate Judiciary Committee ....

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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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