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News France announces law to eliminate prison terms for marijuana usage
France announces law to eliminate prison terms for marijuana usage
Meena Ansari
May 27, 2017 10:35:00 pm

The government of France, under its newly elected president Emmanuel Macron , announced its intention on Friday to introduce a law ending prison terms for marijuana usage by the end of the year, although marijuana consumption...

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News UN rights chief: Egypt security measures encouraging radicalization
UN rights chief: Egypt security measures encouraging radicalization
Meena Ansari
May 1, 2017 12:42:15 pm

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said Monday that Egypt's recent security measures have been encouraging the very radicalization they were trying to control. In a press conference in Geneva, al-Hussein...

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News Supreme Court to hear separation of powers, bankruptcy cases
Supreme Court to hear separation of powers, bankruptcy cases
Meena Ansari
May 1, 2017 12:06:52 pm

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in Patchak v. Zinke and Merit Management v. FTI Consulting on Monday. In Patchak, the court will decide if Section 2(b) of the Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act...

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News Lawyer files ICC complaint against Philippines president over alleged death squad
Lawyer files ICC complaint against Philippines president over alleged death squad
Meena Ansari
April 24, 2017 01:52:10 pm

Filipino lawyer Jude Sabio filed a complaint Monday against Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte accusing him of extrajudicial killings during his nationwide anti-drugs crackdown. The 77-page complaint was filed before the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official...

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News Supreme court declines to hear asylum appeal
Supreme court declines to hear asylum appeal
Meena Ansari
April 17, 2017 02:27:20 pm

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a group of Central American asylum-seekers Monday who hoped the Court would overturn a lower court's ruling preventing them from having their removal orders reviewed...

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Supreme court hears arguments on jurisdiction, joinder, standing
Meena Ansari
April 17, 2017 01:28:55 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board, Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, Inc. and California Public Employees’ Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc. In Perry,...

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News Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Gorsuch sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Meena Ansari
April 10, 2017 01:43:10 pm

Judge Neil Gorsuch was sworn in Monday, becoming the 113th person to serve on the US Supreme Court . Gorsuch's confirmation will return the court to a balance of four conservatives, four liberals and...

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News Egypt president announces state of emergency after terror attacks
Egypt president announces state of emergency after terror attacks
Meena Ansari
April 10, 2017 01:04:26 pm

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi announced a national state of emergency following two terror attacks on Coptic Christian churches on Sunday. The attacks killed at least 44 people and injured 100 others after suicide bombers in...

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News ICC: violence in DRC could be war crimes
ICC: violence in DRC could be war crimes
Meena Ansari
April 3, 2017 04:14:16 pm

The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) released a statement Friday alleging that recent acts of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could amount to war crimes. According to Fatou Bensouda [official...

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HRW: Trump meeting with Egypt president ignores rights abuses
Meena Ansari
April 3, 2017 02:01:02 pm

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Sunday criticized US President Donald Trump's plan to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, saying the move effectively endorses the country's poor recent human rights record. Al-Sisi overthrew...

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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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