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EDELMAN v. TAITTINGER

Civil Procedure, International Law, Securities Law
Because a foreign national temporarily in the United States is subject to being subpoenaed and deposed here as an aid to ongoing securities litigation...

TOPTCHEV v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Immigration Law, International Law
Bulgaria citizens were properly denied asylum, despite evidence of past persecution, where the presumption of future persecution was adequately...

DAZO v. GLOBE AIRPORT SEC. SERV.

Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
The Warsaw Convention does not apply to an airport security company rendering services to both domestic and international air passengers, nor does it...

PRICE v. SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, International Law
In a suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, plaintiffs failed to state a claim for hostage-taking adequate to abrogate sovereign immunity...

JAFFE v. ACCREDITED SURETY AND CAS. CO., INC.

Civil Procedure, International Law
A prior Florida judgment, which refused to recognize a Canadian default judgment, must be given full faith and credit; the question, whether the basis...

LIAO v. US DEP'T OF JUSTICE

Immigration Law, International Law
A Chinese citizen, seeking asylum due to his resistance of China's family control policy, was properly denied relief, but the right to obtain asylum...

EFE v. ASHCROFT

Immigration Law, International Law
The Board of Immigration Appeals' grant to reopen an asylum immigrant's case was proper, based on a State Department telegram which cast doubt on his...

KRASTEV v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Immigration Law, International Law
Summary denial of Bulgarians' application for asylum was incorrect, where the INS's evidence of changed conditions was insufficient to rebut the...

32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY COMM. v. DEP'T OF STATE

Administrative Law, International Law
The designation of three Irish political organizations as "foreign terrorist organizations", under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act...

CARDENAS v. INS

Immigration Law, International Law, Government Law
In denying an application for asylum, the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in concluding that a Peruvian family's well-founded fear of future...