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• CHILD ABDUCTION
  In case involving international abduction of children allegedly to escape abusive parent, Seventh Circuit reverses, relying on defense under Hague Abduction Convention that return would expose child to harm
• COMPETITION
  On application of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, federal court agreed that Commission had shown that U.S. subsidiary in Commonwealth had engaged in resale price maintenance on its skin care products and imposed monetary sanctions
• EXTRADITION
  New South Wales Federal Court of Appeal rules that evidence supplied by United States with its request that Australia extradite one of its residents for his leading role in conspiracy to pirate and distribute millions of dollars of software in U.S. and elsewhere showed conformity to requirement of “dual criminality”
• INDUSTRY REGULATION
  British Columbia Court of Appeal rules that B.C. Vegetable Marketing Commission’s extraordinary levy on greenhouse tomato growers to pay expenses of responding to U.S.’s dumping action against them did not exceed its powers
• PROBATE
  In dispute over rights to German accounts of deceased naturalized U.S. citizen, German trial court rules that U.S. law applies and that Letters of Administration should issue to the estate
• SERVICE OF PROCESS
  Alberta Court of Appeal applies relaxed standard on international service to allow Canadian plaintiff to serve process on American manufacturers of allegedly defective glue which Canadian plaintiff marketed to its customers in Alberta
• VIENNA CONVENTION
  In death penalty case, where Petitioner is appealing denial of habeas corpus writ, Eleventh Circuit denies stay where Petitioner alleges Vienna Consular Convention violations but had ailed to raise said issues on direct appeal
• WAR CRIMES
  Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission issues partial awards against both parties, citing violations of customary international law and the 1949 Geneva Conventions