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• CHILD ABDUCTION
  European Court of Human Rights holds that Austrian courts’ improper reliance on their own delayed enforcement of U.S. husband’s rights under Hague Convention to return of daughter wrongfully abducted to Austria by its mother violated European Convention on Human Rights
• TORTS
  In libel action against “Vanity Fair” magazine, French plaintiff, fugitive from U.S. prison term, fails to persuade English Court of Appeals, Civil Division, that lower court had correctly granted his request to testify by video from France which does not extradite its own citizens
• EXTRADITION
  Although criminal was extradited to U.S. from Colombia based on extradition treaty with diplomatic assurance that Government would recommend term of years rather than life imprisonment, Second Circuit upholds sentence of life imprisonment
• INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
  International Court of Justice decides that, although U.S. naval attacks in 1987/1988 on Iranian oil platforms were not measures necessary to protect essential U.S. security interests, Iran is not entitled to reparations
• MARITIME SAFETY
  U.S. Department of Homeland Security issues measures to bolster maritime safety, including security for vessels, shore facilities and continental shelf operations
• TAXATION
  Pursuant to U.S. - Canada Tax Convention, I.R.S. sends variety of data to Canadian tax agency in confidence; where Canadian writer on taxation asked for statistics on volume of mutual aid that goes on, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal distinguishes between statistics and underlying information and provisionally allows plaintiff considerable access to some, but not to all, statistics sought
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  WTO Appellate Body largely upholds Panel report disapproving U.S. 2002 steel safeguard measures