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• ARBITRATION, REVIEW OF
  Ontario Court of Appeals turns down Mexico’s challenge of ICSID arbitration award to U.S. company denied “national treatment” in violation of NAFTA
• CONTRACTS (ESPIONAGE)
  U.S. Supreme Court holds that former spies cannot use U.S. courts to enforce compensation agreements for espionage services
• JUDGMENTS(ANTITERRORISM ACT)
  Reviewing attempt to enforce judgment against Iran by levying on its U.S. property, Second Circuit rules that plaintiffs had relinquished such rights by accepting payments under Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act
• JUDICIAL PROCEDURE, TRANSNATIONAL
  In House of Lords, majority rules that it did not violate English public or judicial policy to allow French plaintiff in English libel suit to present his trial testimony by video link where he declines to appear in person for fear of extradition to United States as fugitive from imprisonment for admitted sex crime
• JUDICIAL PROCEDURES, UNDUE LENGTH OF
  European Court of Human Rights rules that Austrian courts breached Article 6(1) of Human Rights Convention in taking five years with long periods of inaction to decide enforceability of Michigan divorce decree sought by U.S. husband against Austrian wife who had abducted their daughter from U.S.
• VIENNA CONVENTION
  Oregon Supreme Court holds that Vienna Convention does not create rights that individual foreign nationals may assert in U.S. criminal proceedings
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  In later phase of banana importation dispute among U.S., EU and Ecuador, European Court of Justice holds that legal persons such as banana importers lack standing to plead incompatibility of EU laws with WTO trading rules in Member State courts