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• CHILD ABDUCTION
  Fourth Circuit affirms district court’s finding that International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA) does not confer jurisdiction upon federal courts to hear claims of access denials
• EUROPEAN UNION LAW
  Court of First Instance (CFI) holds that European Union can be liable for non-contractual damages caused by its institutions even in absence of unlawful conduct
• EXTRADITION
  Privy Council of United Kingdom upholds U.S.’s 1996 request for extradition of two alleged drug kingpins from Federation of St. Christopher and Nevis
• MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE
  Australian appellate court upholds $7 million judgment in medical malpractice action against hospital for failing to disseminate recent amendments to cancer treatment protocol by United States study group and against estate of treating specialist for his failure to seek out such information
• OFFICIAL IMMUNITY
  Second Circuit affirms lower court’s decision granting summary judgment to defendant holding that U.S. doctrine of official immunity protects Northrop Grumman Information Technology’s (NGIT’s) discretionary reporting of adverse allegations about Irish plaintiffs to proper government agencies
• PATENTS
  Federal Circuit concludes that, under 28 U.S.C. Section 1498, United States is liable for use of method patent only when it practices each and every step of patented process within its territory
• FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  In challenge to criminal restraining order against foundation which is allegedly supporting terrorism, Fifth Circuit finds that Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) provisions do not trump criminal forfeiture statutes
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  WTO upholds U.S. efforts to comply with tribunal recommendations in U.S.-Canadian Softwood Lumber Dispute