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• ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT
  In long-pending case involving transborder abduction of Mexican citizen by DEA agents, Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that abduction itself did not breach “law of nations” under Alien Tort Claims Act but that unlawful arrest and detention did and that Federal Tort Claims Act also provided a remedy against U.S.
• COPYRIGHT
  In dispute over copyrights to Mexican movies under Uruguay Round Agreement Act provisions on copyright restoration, Fifth Circuit holds that, pursuant to Mexican copyright law, juridical persons can be “authors” and that works already in Mexican public domain can no longer obtain copyright protection in U.S.
• MARITIME COMMERCE
  In action to recover for damage to printing machinery while on high seas between England and United States under nonnegotiable or “straight” bill of lading, English Court of Appeal (Civil Division) applies English law and determines that such bill came within U. K’s Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of 1971
• SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  Second Circuit vacates dismissal of action against French railroad company for transporting French civilians to Nazi slave labor and death camps during World War II because record is insufficient to determine whether application of FSIA would be impermissibly retroactive
• TRADEMARKS
  Canadian Federal Court of Appeal expunges trademark on words “Boston Chicken” from its registry for lack of distinctiveness acquired by usage in Canada but upholds registration of corresponding logo
• UNITED NATIONS
  U.N. Security Council extends U.S. exemption from I.C.C. jurisdiction and U.S. discloses signers of ICC Non-surrender Agreements
• WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
  WTO arbitrator requires U.S. to implement WTO rulings in Byrd Amendment cases by December 27, 2003