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• ANTI SUIT INJUNCTION
  In case of American citizen’s death in airplane crash in Italy, Eleventh Circuit rules that it was improper for district court to stay case pending resolution of Italian litigation, where it would put American plaintiff “effectively out of court”
• ARBITRATION
  In action by Canadian consumer against U.S. computer maker for latter’s failure to honor mistakenly posted lower on line prices, majority of Supreme Court of Canada upholds validity of arbitration clause in Defendant’s sale contract since its choice of National Arbitration Forum headquartered in United States did not introduce “foreign element”
• HUMAN RIGHTS
  Inter American Court of Human Rights finds State of Colombia liable for massacre of judicial officials looking into activities of local paramilitary groups in January of 1989
• SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  Where American investors sued Bank of China for making unauthorized distributions at request of Americans’ Chinese agent, Tenth Circuit holds that Bank of China’s statutory sovereign immunity does not extend to transfers made to U.S. bank
• SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  In case of RICO claim alleging money laundering scheme between French bank and government run Congolese Petroleum Company to avoid interference from Congo’s creditors, Second Circuit holds that Congolese Petroleum Company is statutorily immune from suit
• SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  In contract litigation, Seventh Circuit rules [1] that company owned by Belarusian government is subject to jurisdiction of U.S. courts to enter contempt order where its contract agrees to arbitrate in U.S. to be governed by Illinois law and [2] but that service of process upon Belarusian embassy was invalid under Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  WTO Panel issues mixed ruling in Japan Korea dispute over Japanese restrictions on imports of Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAMS) from Korea