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• ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT
  In case involving allegations of severe environmental pollution brought by Peruvian plaintiffs against U.S. copper company operating in Peru, Second Circuit decides that abstract claims of “right to life” and “right to health” are not actionable under Alien Tort Claims Act as part of customary international law
• COPYRIGHT
  Ninth Circuit decides that U.S. plaintiff may not recover damages for copyright infringement outside U.S., and that exception to general rule against extraterritorial application of Copyright Act when completed domestic infringement enables infringements abroad is inapplicable
• CRIMINAL LAW
  As matter of first impression, Second Circuit rules that federal statute prohibiting possession of firearms by convicted felon does not include foreign convictions
• EVIDENCE
  In breach of implied contract and trademark infringement litigation, English Court of Appeal rejects defendant’s claim that trial court erred in refusing to bar admission of twenty years of interparty correspondence in courts of Taiwan and New Zealand under “without prejudice” rule
• FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
  U.S. District Court for District of Columbia enters judgment against Iran for compensatory damages in favor of victims or their families arising from 1983 bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut
• JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE
  Seventh Circuit upholds ruling that criminal defendant in Ireland was entitled to production of U.S. journalists’ tape recordings of their interviews with key government witness pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1782 since material sought was not privileged
• SECURITIES FRAUD
  In international securities fraud suit, Ontario Court of Appeal holds that U.S. Securities Regulation S did not apply to shares traded on NASDAQ and pledged in loan transaction, that plaintiff Swiss Bank was good faith purchaser of shares and also had gotten beneficial title to shares by common law estoppel based on defendant’s misconduct