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News Lawyers for Canada Guantanamo detainee to request extradition
Lawyers for Canada Guantanamo detainee to request extradition
Tom Henry
June 29, 2006 07:46:00 pm

Lawyers for Omar Khadr , the Canadian citizen who is detained at Guantanamo Bay and charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, said Thursday they will seek his extradition to Canada....

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News UN rights council endorses treaty banning enforced disappearances
UN rights council endorses treaty banning enforced disappearances
Tom Henry
June 29, 2006 07:13:00 pm

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution endorsing the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance , which would require signatories to refrain from engaging in...

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News ACLU demands disclosure of Haditha files
ACLU demands disclosure of Haditha files
Tom Henry
June 22, 2006 08:13:00 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the US Department of Defense publicly release its files about the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians ...

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News Line-item veto bill passes House
Line-item veto bill passes House
Tom Henry
June 22, 2006 07:48:00 pm

The US House of Representatives voted 247-172 Thursday to pass the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006 . The bill, which President Bush proposed in March, allows the...

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News House votes to scale back estate tax
House votes to scale back estate tax
Tom Henry
June 22, 2006 07:18:00 pm

Led by Republicans willing to delay a push to abolish the estate tax completely, the US House of Representatives voted Thursday to end taxation for single estates up to $5 million and married couples' estates up to...

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News Most counts of New Hampshire GOP phone jamming lawsuit dismissed
Most counts of New Hampshire GOP phone jamming lawsuit dismissed
Tom Henry
June 15, 2006 08:28:00 pm

A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed 5 of 8 counts in a lawsuit brought by Democrats against Republicans after the jamming of Democratic phone lines in the 2002 Senate race between Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) [official...

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News Kentucky high court rules inmate can be executed despite mental age questions
Kentucky high court rules inmate can be executed despite mental age questions
Tom Henry
June 15, 2006 07:42:00 pm

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that, despite a 2005 US Supreme Court ruling barring the death penalty for juveniles, the mental age of a death row inmate could not be invoked to...

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News Bush signs bill to increase FCC indecency fines
Bush signs bill to increase FCC indecency fines
Tom Henry
June 15, 2006 07:21:00 pm

One week after the US House of Representatives voted 379-35 to pass the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act , President Bush signed into law the legislation that will increase by tenfold the maximum...

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Denmark adopts new anti-terror laws
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 10:44:00 am

Denmark's parliament has adopted two new anti-terror measures conceived in the aftermath of the July 2005 London terrorist attacks . The new laws give the Danish Security Intelligence Service (PET) broader access to the...

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News Court rejects broad bid for documents in CIA leak case
Court rejects broad bid for documents in CIA leak case
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 10:12:00 am

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday that most of the government documents sought by former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and his defense team were not closely tied to the narrow issue of...

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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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