Search : U.S. Supreme Court : International Law : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law |
| Title: | Hamdan v. Rumsfeld |
| Date: | 06/29/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–184 |
| Summary: | In a challenge brought by a Guantanamo detainee, a judgment of a court of appeals reversing an earlier grant of habeas relief is reversed where the military commission convened to try petitioner lacks the power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, International Law |
| Title: | Sanchez-LLamas v. Oregon |
| Date: | 06/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–10566, 05–51 |
| Summary: | In the context of detained foreign nationals, even assuming that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations creates judicially enforceable rights, suppression is not an appropriate remedy for a violation of Article 36 of the Convention, and a state may apply its regular rules of procedural default to Article 36 claims. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, International Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Ministry of Def. & Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi |
| Date: | 02/21/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1095 |
| Summary: | Judgment involving a private citizen's attempt to attach an asset belonging to Iran's Ministry of Defense in order to help satisfy a judgment for money damages is vacated where the court of appeals erred in applying an "engaged in commercial activity" exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. |