Search : U.S. Supreme Court : International Law : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, International Law |
| Title: | Powerex Corp. v. Reliant Energy Servs. |
| Date: | 06/18/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-85 |
| Summary: | When a district court remands a properly removed case because it nonetheless lacks subject-matter jurisdiction, the remand is covered by 28 U.S.C. section 1447(c), and is thus shielded from review by section 1447(d). Further, when a district court relies upon a ground that is colorably characterized as subject-matter jurisdiction, 1447(d)'s bar on appellate review applies. In an appeal arising from suits brought in California state courts against various companies in the California energy market, alleging that they had conspired to fix prices in violation of California law, a court of appeals judgment finding inter alia that it was not precluded from reviewing substantive issues of law that preceded a remand order is vacated in part, as section 1447(d) barred appellate consideration of petitioner's claim that it is a foreign state for purposes of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Government Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law |
| Title: | Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations v. City of New York |
| Date: | 06/14/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-134 |
| Summary: | The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not immunize a foreign government from a law-suit to declare the validity of tax liens on property held by the sovereign for the purpose of housing its employees. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, International Trade, Patent |
| Title: | Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp. |
| Date: | 04/30/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1056 |
| Summary: | In a patent infringement suit brought by AT&T charging Microsoft with liability for foreign installations of Windows under 35 U.S.C. section 271(f), rulings holding Microsoft liable are reversed as, because Microsoft does not export from the U.S. copies of Windows installed on the foreign-made computers in question, it does not "suppl[y]...from the United States" "components" of those computers, and it is therefore not liable under section 271(f). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, International Law |
| Title: | Sinochem Int'l Co. Ltd. v. Malaysia Int'l Shipping Corp. |
| Date: | 03/05/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-102 |
| Summary: | A district court has discretion to respond at once to a defendant's forum non conveniens plea, and need not take up first any other threshold objection. In particular, a court need not resolve whether it has authority to adjudicate the cause (subject-matter jurisdiction) or personal jurisdiction over the defendant if it determines that, in any event, a foreign tribunal is the more suitable arbiter of the merits of the case. |