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GONZALEZ-CABALLERO v. MENA

Family Law, International Law
Under the Hague Convention, a parent's post-removal conduct does not alter or rescind consent to permament removal of the child by the parent to...

SAMPSON v. FED. REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act implied waiver provision, 28 USC 1605(a)(1), is insufficient to show either an express or implied waiver that...

MAGNESS v. RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Civil Procedure, International Law
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act requires strict compliance with regard to 28 USC 1608(a), but only substantial compliance with 28 USC 1608(b) as...

MARCH v. LEVINE

Family Law, International Law
Parties in child-custody dispute may not, under the International Child Abduction Remedies Act and the Hague Convention, seek a "home court advantage"...

BEKIER v. BEKIER

Family Law, International Law
Under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a petitioner who seeks the return of his child to a foreign country...

HITZEMAN v. RUTTER

International Law, Patent
Where substantial evidence supports the Board of Patent Appeals' conclusion that appellants did not conceive of particle size and sedimentation rate...

BLAKE v. AM. AIRLINES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law, International Law
Jamaica is a High Contracting Party to the Warsaw Convention, even though it joined as a member of the British Commonwealth before gaining...

CORZO v. BANCO CENT. DE RESERVA DEL PERU

Civil Procedure, International Law
A foreign government's amenability to suit in the courts of its own country does not automatically subject it to jurisdiction in the United States...

FOROGLOU v. RENO

Immigration Law, International Law
Nothing in the Convention Against Torture precludes the United States from setting reasonable time limits on the assertion of claims under the...

US v. JIMENEZ-NAVA

Immigration Law, International Law
The Vienna Convention on Consular relations does not provide judicially enforceable rights of consultation between a detained foreign national and his...