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• EXTRATERRITORIALITY
  Ninth Circuit holds that the General Aviation Revitalization Act’s eighteen year statute of repose for products liability claims applies to U.S. suits involving U.S. built aircraft whether or not aircraft accident occurred abroad
• FAMILY LAW
  Relying in part on study of similar laws in twenty other nations including United States, Germany’s highest court upholds German law criminalizing incest, inter alia, to prevent genetic harm to innocent offspring
• FOREIGN JUDGMENTS
  Where one foreign nation’s judgment conflicts with judgment from another nation, New York Court of Appeals interprets its version of Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act as granting its courts discretion either to enforce latest judgment, or earlier judgment or neither judgment
• FOREIGN LAW
  In securities fraud litigation where Plaintiffs included claims that Defendants Swiss Banks violated Swiss banking regulations, Third Circuit vacates dismissal of complaint because recent congressional restrictions on securities class actions in state courts did not preempt state law to extent of preempting Swiss banking laws
• HUMAN RIGHTS
  In action against U.K. government officials by mothers of two sons killed in Iraq conflict, House of Lords rules that Article 2 of European Human Rights Convention on right to life does not apply governmental decisions to go to war nor does implied corollary of Convention requiring full investigation of reasons for doing so demand new public inquiry into said reasons
• POLITICAL QUESTION
  District of Columbia Circuit dismisses common law claims by widow of Guatemalan rebel fighter who was allegedly killed with support of U.S. government officials because such matters involve Political Questions or fall within FTCA’s “foreign country” exception to waiver of immunity