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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Injury And Tort Law, International Law |
| Title: | SOSA v. ALVAREZ-MACHAIN |
| Date: | 06/29/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-339 |
| Summary: | The Federal Tort Claims Act's exception to waiver of sovereign immunity for claims arising in a foreign country bars claims based on any injury suffered in a foreign country, regardless of where the tortious act or omission occurred. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, International Law, Military Law |
| Title: | RASUL v. BUSH |
| Date: | 06/28/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-334 |
| Summary: | United States courts have jurisdiction to consider challenges to the legality of the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad in connection with hostilities in Afghanistan, and incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, International Law, International Trade |
| Title: | INTEL CORP. v. ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. |
| Date: | 06/21/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-572 |
| Summary: | In an anti-trust case, USC Section 1782(a) authorizes, but does not require a district court to compel discovery requested by an adverse party to be used in a case brought before the Directorate-General of the Commission of European Communities. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law |
| Title: | F. HOFFMAN-LA ROCHE LTD. v. EMPAGRAM |
| Date: | 06/14/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-724 |
| Summary: | Where price-fixing affects customers within and outside the U.S., but both these effects are independent, the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act exception stating the Sherman Act will not apply to trade involving foreign nations is inapplicable. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, International Law |
| Title: | REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA v. ALTMAN |
| Date: | 06/07/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-13 |
| Summary: | The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act applies retroactively to actions of foreign states that occurred before the FSIA's 1976 enactment. The expropriation exception to the act would allow a private party to recover paintings from Austria, which were seized by Nazis in 1948. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Injury And Tort Law, International Law, Transportation, Travel & Leisure |
| Title: | OLYMPIC AIRWAYS v. HUSAIN |
| Date: | 02/24/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1348 |
| Summary: | Defendant is liable for the death of an international passenger because its conduct here constitutes an "accident" under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention. Flight attendant's refusal to reseat the asthmatic passenger away from the smoking section was clearly external to him, and unexpected and unusual in light of industry standards, defendant's policy, and the simple nature of the requested accommodation. |