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News ICJ opens hearings in Japan whaling dispute
ICJ opens hearings in Japan whaling dispute
Theresa Donovan
June 27, 2013 06:29:51 am

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday began public hearings in the ongoing legal dispute between Australia and Japan over Japanese whaling near Antarctica. Australia argued at Wednesday's hearing that Japan is in violation...

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News Supreme Court rules employer recommendation not property
Supreme Court rules employer recommendation not property
Theresa Donovan
June 26, 2013 03:28:40 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Sekhar v. United States that attempting to compel a person to recommend that his employer approve an investment does not constitute "the obtaining of...

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News UK Supreme Court allows families of Iraq soldiers to sue government
UK Supreme Court allows families of Iraq soldiers to sue government
Theresa Donovan
June 19, 2013 02:28:56 pm

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the families of some British soldiers who were killed or injured in Iraq can sue the British government for damages. In its ruling, the Supreme Court stated that...

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News UN rights chief urges Hungary to revoke constitutional amendments
UN rights chief urges Hungary to revoke constitutional amendments
Theresa Donovan
June 19, 2013 12:40:32 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged the Hungarian government to revoke constitutional amendments that have recently come under fire for undermining the country's constitutional justice and for threatening the independence...

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News Hungary prosecutors charge accused Nazi with war crimes
Hungary prosecutors charge accused Nazi with war crimes
Theresa Donovan
June 18, 2013 01:19:27 pm

Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old Hungarian man, with the unlawful execution and torture of people in connection with the Holocaust. Slovakian authorities began the investigation of Csatary in September after he was arrested...

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News ICC grants Kenya VP’s request to skip parts of upcoming trial
ICC grants Kenya VP’s request to skip parts of upcoming trial
Theresa Donovan
June 18, 2013 12:23:52 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday conditionally granted the request of Kenyan Vice President William Ruto to be excused from parts of his upcoming trial. The Trial Chamber, however,...

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News Turkish lawyers join ongoing protests
Turkish lawyers join ongoing protests
Theresa Donovan
June 12, 2013 03:10:24 pm

Thousands of Turkish lawyers on Wednesday joined the ongoing protests in Ankara and Istanbul by marching out of courthouses in black robes. This came as the result of incidents occurring during the protests on Tuesday, where a...

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News ICTR prosecutor urges UN sember states to assist in locating Rwanda fugitives
ICTR prosecutor urges UN sember states to assist in locating Rwanda fugitives
Theresa Donovan
June 12, 2013 01:48:32 pm

Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow , Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday reiterated the UN Security Council's request for member states to help bring to justice nine fugitives allegedly responsible...

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News US military prosecutors charge Guantanamo detainee with war crimes
US military prosecutors charge Guantanamo detainee with war crimes
Theresa Donovan
June 11, 2013 04:20:40 pm

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced that military commission charges have been filed against Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi . Al-Hadi is an Iraqi prisoner who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay...

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News Pakistan court grants bail to Musharraf over detention of judges
Pakistan court grants bail to Musharraf over detention of judges
Theresa Donovan
June 11, 2013 11:20:13 am

A Pakistani court on Tuesday granted bail to former president Pervez Musharraf in the case of his 2007 detention of senior judges. The detention came after Musharraf imposed emergency rule in Pakistan. Musharraf, however,...

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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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