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• AVIATION
  In case where multiple plaintiffs sued multiple international air carriers alleging that they contracted deep vein thrombosis during flights, House of Lords holds that limiting term “accident” as used in Warsaw Convention precludes airline liability for such events
• BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATIES
  English Court of Appeal (Civil Division) rules that English principle on nonjusticiability of international agreements does not apply where issue arises out of UNCITRAL arbitration expressly contemplated by investment agreement between U.S. and Ecuador
• JURISDICTION (IN REM)
  Fourth Circuit vacates lower court’s decision over rights to artifacts recovered from sunken wreck of R.M.S. Titanic for lack of in rem jurisdiction over artifacts
• FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
  In dispute over law professor’s request for FBI records that may implicate him in terrorist activities, Seventh Circuit declines to narrowly define term “law enforcement activity” as used in Section 552a(e)(7) of Privacy Act, deciding instead that statute does allow FBI to maintain personal information that it can demonstrate to be pertinent to its law enforcement duties
• PATENTS
  U.S. Supreme Court declines to review judgment that Canadian company’s BlackBerry wireless communicator infringes U.S. patents of plaintiff though its e-mail computers are located outside U.S.
• TERRORISM
  European Court of First Instance dismisses action by Swedish plaintiffs against EU Council and Commission to annul Regulations that not only restrict travel and exports to Afghanistan but also freeze plaintiffs’ funds
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  WTO body finds that U.S. continues to violate international trading rules by maintaining prohibited indirect subsidies through Foreign Sales Corporation and Extraterritorial Income Exclusions