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Respondents, who are nonresident enemy aliens, were captured in China by the United States Army and tried and convicted in China by an American military commission for violations of the laws of war committed in China prior to their capture. They were transported to the American-occupied part of Germany and imprisoned there in the custody of the Army. At no time were they within the territorial jurisdiction of any American civil court. Claiming that their trial, conviction and imprisonment violated Articles I and III, the Fifth Amendment, and other provisions of our Constitution, laws of the United States and provisions...

A federal judge has ordered New York's Westchester County to pay a twice-convicted pedophile $2,500 for violating his rights by refusing to allow him to perform his clown act for children at a local amusement park. Judge John S. Martin did approve the county's park regulation crafted earlier this year that bars convicted pedophiles from obtaining performance permits if their acts are designed to "entice a child to congregate around" them. The ruling allows the county to bar Richard Hobbs from performing his clown act in the future at the county-owned park. County officials hailed the ruling as a victory,...