International Law Update
- Publisher:
- International Law Group, PLLC
- Publication date:
- 2008-08-01
- ISBN:
- 1089-5450
Issue Number
- No. 23-3, October 2018
- No. 23-2, April 2017
- No. 23-1, January 2017
- No. 22-4, October 2016
- No. 22-3, July 2016
- No. 22-2, April 2016
- No. 22-1, January 2016
- No. 21-3, July 2015
- No. 21-2, April 2015
- No. 21-1, January 2015
- No. 20-4, October 2014
- No. 20-3, July 2014
- No. 20-2, April 2014
- No. 19-1, January 2013
- No. 18-3, July 2012
- No. 18-2, April 2012
- No. 18-1, January 2012
- No. 17-4, October 2011
- No. 17-3, July 2011
- No. 17-2, April 2011
Latest documents
- Discovery
Where a party seeks evidence under Section 1782 for use in a foreign proceeding, Eleventh Circuit addresses jurisdictional issue-here, Appellant did not appeal the district court’s order granting the § 1782 application; instead, Appellant appealed the denial of its subsequent motion to quash.
- Sovereign immunity
Where ICSID panel issued an award against Venezuela and creditors brought ex parte action for recognition of award under New York law, federal district court denied Venezuela’s subsequent motion to vacate judgment; Second Circuit reverses because FSIA is the sole basis for federal court jurisdiction over foreign sovereigns in actions to enforce ICSID awards.
- Sovereign immunity
Considering challenges to default judgments holding Sudan liable for the injuries suffered by victims of the 1998 al Qaeda embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, District of Columbia Circuit interprets FSIA terrorism exception.
- Treaties
Ninth Circuit reviews request for declaratory judgment by the Republic of the Marshall Islands that the United States is in breach of its treaty obligations; Court finds dispute nonjusticiable and within the realm of the executive, not the judiciary.
- Comity
In Case of Claims for Damages by Persons Affected by Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Incident in Japan, Ninth Circuit Reviews Denial of Motion to Dismiss on Grounds of International Comity, Forum Non Conveniens, the Political Question Doctrine, and the Firefighter’s Rule.
- Federal Tort Claims Act
In action under Federal Tort Claims Act where US State Department employee suffered injuries in Haiti, District Of Columbia Circuit Affirms Dismissal of lawsuit.
- Immunity (International Organization)
District of Columbia Circuit affirms dismissal of lawsuit by Indian nationals who claim to be beneficiaries of social and environmental terms of contract of International Finance Corporation (IFC) with large Indian company.
- Sovereign Immunity
District of Columbia remands case about disputed property looted during Holocaust in Hungary; Congress enacted Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 during the pendency of the appeal.
- Terrorism
- Torture
In civilians’ claims for damages after drone strike in Yemen, District of Columbia Circuit affirms dismissal of case on Political Question grounds.
Featured documents
- Alien tort statute
In lawsuit brought by more than 4,000 Colombian victims of paramilitary forces that received support from Chiquita banana company, Eleventh Circuit dismisses based on the Alien Tort Statute’s presumption against extraterritoriality....
- Arbitration
- Treaties
Ninth Circuit reviews request for declaratory judgment by the Republic of the Marshall Islands that the United States is in breach of its treaty obligations; Court finds dispute nonjusticiable and within the realm of the executive, not the judiciary....
- Comity
China’s attempt to control vitamin C market leads to multi national legal...
- Vienna Convention
Fifth Circuit denies Certificate of Appealability in case of Mexican citizen on death row who claims that Texas law enforcement officers had failed to inform him of his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations; the Convention creates no judicially enforceable individual...
- Terrorism
- Arbitration/Maritime law
Fifth Circuit reverses district court determination that small arbitral award by Philippine arbitration panel in favor of injured seaman violated public policy of the United States; remands for district court to enforce the arbitral award....
- Sovereign Immunity
District of Columbia remands case about disputed property looted during Holocaust in Hungary; Congress enacted Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 during the pendency of the appeal....
- Discovery
- Sovereign Immunity
In matter of first impression, Second Circuit reviews activities of sovereign wealth fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and ponders whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act immunizes an instrumentality of a foreign sovereign against claims that it violated federal securities laws by making...