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• ARBITRATION
  Second Circuit overturns enforcement of Egyptian arbitration award against U.S. parent company since only subsidiary had agreed to arbitrate and since district court need not accept foreign finding that parent company may also be bound
• CONFLICTS (REVENUE RULE)
  In prosecution for using interstate communications to carry out plot to bootleg U. S. liquor into Canada to evade its taxes, U. S. Supreme Court upholds conviction because interstate wire fraud statute does not run afoul of the common law “revenue rule”
• EXTRADITION
  Australian Federal Court of Appeal rules that Australian resident was extraditable to U.S. for his part in alleged international criminal conspiracy to pirate copyrighted software since U.S. had made adequate showing of double criminality
• JUDGMENTS
  In action to enforce British money judgments against U.S. parties, Tenth Circuit permits enforcement, rejecting challenges to the fundamental fairness of the English court system
• POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINE
  In case of claims by Holocaust Survivors against Vatican Bank for alleged support to Croatian puppet regime during World War II, Ninth Circuit finds property claims justiciable
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  WTO Panel generally sides with United States in U.S. - EU dispute over whether EU law on geographical indications of food products discriminates against U. S. trademarks