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6 Int'l L. Update 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/intlwup6 and id is 1 raw text is: A monthly report on public and private international legal developments Internattonal LaW uydate Editors: Professor John R. Schmertz, Jr., Georgetown University Law Center, and Mike Meier, Esq. Vol. 6 January Highlights uw In complex litigation involving U.S. company that provided telephone services to Mexican customers, Fifth Circuit uses Texas choice-of-law doctrines based on Restatement of Conflicts to decide whether to apply internal law of Texas or Mexico to contract and tort issues (page 2) Ow First Circuit determines whether shipment of vitrified nuclear waste on U.K. vessel from France to Japan through United States' Exclusive Economic Zone in Caribbean involved major federal action so as to require U.S. to file Environmental Impact Statement under NEPA (page 4) uW English Court of Appeal rules on whether English court is forum conveniens for libel suit against Dow Jones & Co. brought by U.S. residents since, inter alia, less than one percent of Barron Magazine's sales takes place in United Kingdom (page 6) O Inter-American Court of Human Rights decides whether Guatemalan government violated Inter-American Human Rights Convention for failing to prosecute police for murdering street children in light of own jurisprudence and that of European Human Rights Court (page 7) January 2000 OW In case of first impression, New York district court determines whether federal courts must now consider Hong Kong as part of foreign state, i.e., China, thus enabling its citizens to invoke alienage jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(2) (page 10) OW In reference from Belgian court in suit by General Motors, European Court of Justice rules on whether reputation element of EC Trademarks Directive as harmonized into Benelux law requires that owner seeking to enjoin third party's use of Chevy mark show that mark had reputation over whole of Benelux territory or whole territory of Benelux Member State (page 12) O In dispute between European Communities and United States over latter's enforcement of 1974 U.S. Trade Act, World Trade Organization Panel rules on whether application of Act typically leads to WTO violations or whether in practice U.S. can impose statutory trade sanctions that do conform to WTO rules (page 14) The following topics are of special interest in our In Brief section: Return of Macao to China - U.S. deportation of Nazi camp guard - German ruling on use of competitor's name in meta tags of own website - Ukranian statute on foreign exploitation of local mineral resources (page 15)

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