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Navani v. Shahani

Civil Procedure, Family Law, International Law
Appeal of a district court order granting a petition to return a child to England pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of...

El-Hadad v. United Arab Emirates

International Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case brought by former employee for wrongful termination and defamation against defendant U.A.E., denial of immunity under the Foreign Sovereign...

O'Connor v. Sandy Lane Hotel Co.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In case where plaintiff husband slipped, fell, and hurt his shoulder while receiving a massage at a Barbados hotel, dismissal for want of personal...

Societe Civile Succession Richard Guino v. Redstar Corp.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In action to enforce a French judgment against defendants, order enforcing a portion of the judgment, denial of another portion of the judgment as...

Bismullah v. Gates

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, International Law
On petitions for review brought by eight men detained at the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba challenging the determination by a Combatant Status...

Marriage of Sareen

Family Law, International Law
Grant of husband's motion to quash jurisdiction in wife's child custody petition is reversed as the trial court erred in concluding India was the...

Benitez v. Garcia

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Sentencing
Denial of a petition for habeas corpus challenging a sentence for murder following defendant's extradition to the U.S. from Venezuela is affirmed...

Otal Investments, Ltd. v. M.V. Clary

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In case involving collision of three vessels in the English Channel, order finding plaintiff vessel to be exclusively at fault for the collision that...

Nemariam v. The Fed. Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In a takings claim against Ethiopia and the Central Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) involving bank accounts seized by Ethiopia after it expelled the Eritrean...

Danso v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, International Law
Equal protection does not prohibit IJs or the BIA from refusing to give effect to an expungement under England's Rehabilitation of Offenders Act...