The commission simply violates the most basic principle recognized in any other court of law: that the accused has a right to know his accuser.

The Council's report concluded that in addition to failing to assemble a quorum, the commission may have violated the state's open meeting law by not providing advance public notice.

Even after the votes, contention remained, with legal experts saying the commission had probably violated state law by holding the private session.

But the appeals court said that the regulatory commission violated the 1978 law.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the military commissions the administration had planned were unauthorized by federal statute and violated international law.

The opinion reversed a ruling from a lower court judge that the military commissions used to try detainees on war crimes violated the Constitution and international law.

In its decision, the Supreme Court said, on a 5-to-3 vote, that the planned commissions were unauthorized by federal statute and violated international law.

These deviations made the commissions violate the UCMJ.

The court, ruled broadly last week in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that military commissions were unauthorized by statute and violated international law.

In 1988, the commission found that pollution from the mine could flow into the United States and would violate the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty.