Recently added articles from International Law Update:
Alien Tort Claims Act.
Feb 01, 2009 ... IN CASE OF NATURALIZED AMERICAN CITIZEN, FORMERLY HIGH RANKING MILITARY OFFICIAL DURING SALVADORAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP WHO INJURED PLAINTIFFS, CHARGED WITH CRIMES UNDER ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT AND TORTURE VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT, SIXTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT CIRCUMSTANCES IN EL SALVADOR GAVE ...
Arbitration.(Answers in Genesis and Creation Ministries International)
Feb 01, 2009 ... DESPITE ALREADY PENDING LITIGATION BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIAN RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN AUSTRALIAN COURT, SIXTH CIRCUIT FINDS THAT INTERNATIONAL COMITY DOES NOT STAND IN WAY OF U.S. FEDERAL SUIT TO COMPEL ARBITRATION UNDER ARBITRATION CONVENTION TO WHICH BOTH U.S. AND AUSTRALIA ...
International organizations.(International Finance Corporation)
Feb 01, 2009 ... DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT FINDS THAT THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION IN DISPUTE RESULTING FROM CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS OVER SALE OF INVESTMENT TO THIRD PARTY The International Finance Corporation (IFC) (Defendant) is an international organization with ...
Maritime law (punitive damages).
Feb 01, 2009 ... IN NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD LITIGATION OVER EXXON'S SUPERTANKER OIL SPILL IN ALASKAN WATERS, DIVIDED U.S. SUPREME COURT HOLDS, AS MATTER OF MARITIME COMMON LAW, THAT INHERENT INCONSISTENCIES IN JURY DETERMINATIONS OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES JUSTIFIES LIMITING SAME TO NO MORE THAN AMOUNT OF COMPENSATORY ...
Serbian court convicts four Serbs for war crimes of massacring forty-eight Kosovo Albanian civilians.(TOPICS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2009 ... On April 23, after a three-year trial, a Serbian war crimes court on Thursday convicted four former Serbian policemen for massacring 48 Kosovo Albanians at Suva Reka; it sentenced two of them to 20 years in prison. The other two received sentences of 15 or 13 years. The judges said that ...
United Nations conference votes to enlarge list of banned organic pollutants already listed in Stockholm Convention.(TOPICS IN BRIEF)(Conference news)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2009 ... A 160-nation meeting in Geneva this week has voted to enlarge the coverage of a U. N.-sponsored treaty, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2004), or POPs; the expansion seeks to control highly dangerous chemicals beyond the original "dirty dozen." The international ...
Habeas corpus.
Jan 01, 2009 ... IN CASE OF 17 CHINESE MUSLIMS DETAINED AT GUANTANAMO BAY AND NOT CLASSIFIED AS "ENEMY COMBATANTS," DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT REVERSES GRANT OF HABEAS CORPUS BECAUSE HABEAS STATUTE DOES NOT GRANT DETAINEES RIGHT TO BE TAKEN TO U.S. FOR RELEASE This case concerns 17 Chinese ...
Judgments (foreign, enforcement).
Jan 01, 2009 ... FLORIDA INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEAL REVERSES REFUSAL OF LOWER COURT TO DOMESTICATE FOREIGN MONEY JUDGMENT WHERE DEFENDANT FAILED TO CHALLENGE SUFFICIENCY OF PROCESS SERVICE IN ISRAELI COURT THUS WAIVING THAT DEFENSE IN FLORIDA COURT UNDER FLORIDA'S FOREIGN JUDGMENT RECOGNITION ACT ...
Maritime law (Anti-Pollution).
Jan 01, 2009 ... IN MATTER OF FIRST IMPRESSION, SECOND CIRCUIT AFFIRMS CONVICTION OF BAHAMIAN FLAG VESSEL'S MANAGEMENT COMPANY, HOLDING THAT FALSE ENTRIES IN ITS "OIL RECORD BOOK" BREACHED REQUIREMENT" OF U.S. ACT TO PREVENT POLLUTION ON SHIPS AND IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS WHICH DO NOT CONFLICT WITH ...
Sovereign immunity.
Jan 01, 2009 ... SECOND CIRCUIT FINDS THAT CLAUSES IN ARGENTINE OFFERING CIRCULARS FOR GOVERNMENT BONDS WAIVING SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY IN FRANKFURT AND BUENOS AIRES COURTS, AS WELL AS FOR ENFORCEMENT IN OTHER COURTS, ALSO WAIVED IMMUNITY UNDER FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITIES ACT THUS SUPPORTING JURISDICTION OF ...
Trademarks.
Jan 01, 2009 ... IN TRADEMARK DISPUTE BETWEEN LARGE U.S. BEVERAGE MAKER AND LARGE AUSTRALIAN BEVERAGE MAKER OVER USE OF "BAREFOOT" MARK ON ITS WINE, FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL RULES THAT AUSTRALIAN COMPANY DID INFRINGE U.S. COMPANY'S MARK Michael Houlihan was the registered owner of the "Barefoot" ...
Alien Tort Claims Act.
Dec 01, 2008 ... AS MATTER OF FIRST IMPRESSION IN NINTH CIRCUIT, IN LONG-PENDING CLASS ACTION AGAINST MINING COMPANY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA CHARGING, INTERALIA, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, STARVATION AND SLAVERY, COURT PLURALITY HOLDS THAT DISTRICT COURTS SHOULD DECIDE IN ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT CASES PRELIMINARY ...
Alien Tort Claims Act.
Dec 01, 2008 ... IN PLAINTIFFS' APPEAL OF SUIT AGAINST COLOMBIAN MINING SUBSIDIARY OF U.S. COMPANY WHICH ALLEGEDLY HIRED PARAMILITARIES TO TORTURE AND KILL MEMBERS OF MINING UNION, ELEVENTH CIRCUIT RULES THAT ATCA GRANTS JURISDICTION OVER PLAINTIFFS CLAIMS AGAINST CORPORATION FOR VIOLATING LAW OF NATIONS; ...
Aviation law (Montreal Convention).
Dec 01, 2008 ... WHILE SEATING SELF ON BOARD BRITISH AIRWAYS FLIGHT FROM ARIZONA TO LONDON, PLAINTIFF SLIPPED ON STANDARD FLOOR TRACK INJURING HER KNEE, U.K. COURT OF APPEAL CIVIL DIVISION) DISMISSES HER APPEAL FROM ADVERSE JUDGMENT ON GROUNDS THAT EVENT DID NOT COME WITHIN AUTONOMOUS TERM ACCIDENT" AS ...
Immigration (certificate of entry).
Dec 01, 2008 ... WHERE U.S. PROFESSIONAL SINGER WITH PRIOR U.S. CRIMINAL RECORD AND ENTOURAGE SEEMED INVOLVED IN APPARENT RUCKUS AT HEATHROW AIRPORT, LEADING TO DENIAL OF ENTRY INTO U.K., ENGLISH COURT OF APPEAL, CIVIL DIVISION ALLOWS SINGER S APPEAL FROM RULING BY ENTRY CLEARANCE OFFICER THAT SINGER NOT ...
Negligence (rail crossing).
Dec 01, 2008 ... WHERE MOTORCYCLIST AT NIGHT APPROACHED FAMILIAR RURAL RAILROAD PASSIVE CROSSING ON SHARPLY ANGLED ROAD AT SPEED JUST UNDER LIMIT AND CRASHED INTO MOVING UNLIGHTED, FREIGHT TRAIN LOSING THREE OF HIS LIMBS, ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL AFFIRMS DAMAGE JUDGMENT POINTING OUT, INTER ALIA, THAT ...
Terrorism (confidential information).
Dec 01, 2008 ... IN CRIMINAL CASE INVOLVING 1998 BOMBINGS OF U.S. EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA, SECOND CIRCUIT RULES THAT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION PROCEDURES ACT (CIPA) RULING WHICH ALLOWED DEFENDANT S ATTORNEYS WITH CLEARANCE TO REVIEW CLASSIFIED TERRORISM INFORMATION TO EXCLUSION OF DEFENDANT WAS NOT ERROR. ...
World Trade Organization.
Dec 01, 2008 ... WTO APPELLATE BODY ISSUES REPORTS IN DISPUTE OVER CHINA'S DISCRIMINATORY TAXATION OF IMPORTED AUTO PARTS, LARGELY AFFIRMING PANEL REPORT THAT SUCH TAXATION INFRINGES PROVISIONS OF WTO REGULATIONS AND POLICIES. On December 15, 2008, the Appellate Body of the World Trade ...
United States ratifies Amendment and three Protocols to Conventional Weapons Convention.(TOPICS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2008 ... On January 21, the United States deposited with the United Nations its instruments of ratification for Protocols III, IV and V to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate ...
Canada and United States have signed updated agreement on emergency management.(TOPICS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2008 ... The Canadian Foreign Minister came to Washington on December 12 on his first official visit. In addition to discussing the many important issues on the bilateral agenda, the two Secretaries signed an updated U.S.-Canada Memorandum of Agreement on Emergency Management Cooperation. The ...