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• ANTI SUIT INJUNCTION
  Eighth Circuit decides that anti suit injunction is inappropriate where Japanese company intends to file suit under Japanese “clawback statute” to recover amount of U.S. court judgment after it has satisfied it
• ARBITRATION
  Eleventh Circuit holds that arbitration agreement in collective bargaining contract for seamen is enforceable under Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, which supersedes relevant portions of the Seaman’s Wage Act
• COPYRIGHT
  After Danish Plaintiff had created and copyrighted “Good Luck Troll” dolls, their sale without copyright notice invalidated Plaintiff’s registration until Uruguay Round Agreements Act restored Plaintiff’s copyright so that Defendant’s marketing of such dolls before URAA’s enactment did not make Defendant “reliance party” to whom URAA would have accorded one year to clear its inventory of infringing dolls
• FORUM SELECTION
  In case of an employment agreement between a Honduran seaman and a U.S. Corporation, Fifth Circuit declines to nullify a forum selection clause, giving jurisdiction to Honduran courts
• SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  U. S. Supreme Court rules that FSIA does not immunize foreign government from lawsuit to declare validity of New York city tax liens on property held by that sovereign to house its lower level employees and their families
• SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  District of Columbia Circuit holds that accounts frozen by Central Bank Ethiopia are not “owned or operated” by Ethiopia and therefore not subject to jurisdiction under Expropriations Exception of the FSIA
• TERRORISM
  In suit complaining of NSA’s program of intercepting overseas communications with suspected al Qaeda members and affiliates, Sixth Circuit finds that Plaintiffs who communicated with Members of suspect class do not have standing to bring lawsuit
• TORTS (ECONOMIC)
  In tort action by English celebrity magazine who had contracted for exclusive rights to photographs of private New York wedding between Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones against similar magazine who bought unauthorized freelancer’s surreptitious photos of same wedding, House of Lords, by 3 to 2 vote, upheld substantial damage award given by Queens Bench