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AL ODAH v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law
The district court had no habeas corpus jurisdiction to adjudicate actions contesting the legality and conditions of confinement of aliens captured...

EIE GUAM CORP. v. THE LONG TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, LTD.

Civil Procedure, International Law
A voluntarily joined foreign sovereign may remove a case from a territorial court to a federal district court, when the foreign sovereign obtained the...

WANG v ASHCROFT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law, International Law
In a multi-claim habeas appeal, (1) Federal courts have jurisdiction to consider the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims raised in...

US v. WILSON

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, International Law
The district court clearly erred in concluding that the government proved by a preponderance of evidence that a foreign discovery request, necessary...

ZEISL v. WATMAN

Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, International Law
No basis exists for a finding that attorney's fees paid to lawyers, for services rendered in connection with the creation of a multi-billion dollar...

MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORP. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY (DILLMAN)

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
Claims by surviving American prisoners of war against a number of Japanese companies for whom they were forced to do slave labor during World War II,...

WANG v. ASHCROFT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law, International Law
In a multi-claim habeas appeal, (1) Federal courts have jurisdiction to consider the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims raised in...

FORD v. BROWN

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
A diversity tort action should have been dismissed under forum non conveniens, where the litigation entailed a Hong Kong-centered dispute, most of the...

NEMARIAM v. THE FED. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHOPIA

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of a suit against Ethiopia, seeking recovery for property damage suffered during a border war, is reversed as the Ethiopia/Eritrea Claims...

US v. TORRES

Criminal Law & Procedure, International Law
"Final action" under 18 U.S.C. section 3292, tolling a criminal case limitations period so the government may pursue an official request for evidence...