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• EUROPEAN UNION
  European Court of Justice annuls airplane passenger data agreement with U.S. for lack of an appropriate legal basis
• EXTRADITION
  On appeal from order denying petition for habeas corpus, Ninth Circuit decides that political offense exception under Extradition Treaty does not apply to bombing plot against Vietnamese embassy in Thailand
• EXTRADITION
  Ninth Circuit reverses district court’s denial of habeas relief holding that extraditing country’s sentence limitations in its extradition decree may not be violated where treaty is recognized federal law and where extraditing country’s intent is clear
• FORUM NON CONVENIENS
  Sixth Circuit vacates dismissal on grounds of forum non conveniens holding that lower court should have given U. S. citizen’s choice of forum greater deference than that of foreign party and that courts should separately consider each claim to be litigated in its analysis
• HUMAN RIGHTS
  Third Circuit declines to grant relief under Convention Against Torture where claim rests only on generalized allegations of deplorable prison conditions in proposed country of removal
• HUMAN RIGHTS
  On appeal of decision by Board of Immigration Appeals, Sixth Circuit decides that convicted alien's removability is timely but remands his claims under Convention Against Torture to Board for further proceedings
• IMMIGRATION
  U.S. Supreme Court affirms deportation order under IIRIRA over objections that Petitioner’s illegal re-entry of U. S. took place before effective date of statute
• POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINE
  D.C. Circuit affirms dismissal of claims brought against United States by Indian Ocean islanders dispossessed by U. S. military base as non-justiciable political questions involving matters of foreign policy and national security entrusted to political branches
• SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  In suit by private citizen to attach Iran’s Swiss arbitration award to satisfy default judgment in tort case against Iran, Supreme Court rules that Ninth Circuit erred in treating Iranian defense ministry as agent or instrumentality of foreign state under FSIA
• WORLDWIDE FREEZE ORDERS
  In civil action where lower court has issued universal freeze of defendants’ assets supplemented by order relating specifically to assets in Switzerland, English Court of Appeal (Civil Division) upholds propriety of leaving Swiss variation order in effect over defendants’ objections