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• ARBITRATION
  In international contract arbitration matter, Third Circuit rules that U.S. defendant’s unheeded jurisdictional objections to Chinese arbitration proceedings based on claim that someone had forged contracts with arbitration clauses showed that district court had failed to carry out its independent duty to make factual findings on defendant’s jurisdictional claims
• CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
  U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicts and sentences three media personnel, holding them accountable for their role in repeatedly using airwaves during 1994 to incite Rwandans to commit genocide
• CULTURAL PROPERTY
  Cambodia and United States have entered into Memorandum Of Understanding designed to preserve Cambodian archeological materials by restricting their importation into U.S.
• PATENTS
  English Chancery Court dismisses infringement suit by U.S. pharmaceutical company because narrow wording of its U.K. patent for osteoporosis medication left way open for defendant’s lawful use of different form of sulphonic acid in similar manufacturing process
• RECIPROCITY
  Federal Circuit remands case to redetermine applicability of Reciprocity Act to Federal Claims Court suits brought by residents of Cuba because U.S. government’s 1963 embargo had suspended payment of their pensions for World War II service
• TERRORISM
  Ninth Circuit reviews constitutionality of AEDPA provisions that permit designation of “foreign terrorist organizations” finding serious Fifth Amendment due process concerns and concluding that ban on providing support in the form of “training” and “personnel” is overbroad
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  United States prevails before WTO Appellate Body in dispute with Japan because its restrictions on U.S. apple imports are inconsistent with requirements of WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  U.S. President formally rescinds U.S. steel tariffs before official expiration date; European Union follows suit as to its retaliatory measures