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21 Int'l L. Update 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/intlwup21 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME 21 January-March 2015 A report on public and private international legal developments Seventh Circuit reviews dismissal of lawsuits by Holocaust victims against Hungarian national railway, Hungarian national bank, and other private banks for their complicit role during World War II; international comity requires that Plaintiffs first exhaust available Hungarian remedies 1 PAGE 2 In lawsuit brought by more than 4,000 Colombian victims of paramilitary forces that received support from Chiquita banana company, Eleventh Circuit analyzes the Alien Tort Statute's presumption against extraterritoriality I PAGE IO U.S. Supreme Court reviews U.S.-UK investment treaty's arbitration clause which allows either party to submit a dispute to a competent tribunal of the Contracting Party under certain conditions; issue is whether a court or the arbitrator has primary responsibility for interpreting and applying the local litigation requirement to an underlying controversy ) PAGE 16 In case of criminal charges against individual who used toxic chemicals to injure spouse's lover, U.S. Supreme ponders whether such acts are covered by the Implementation Act of the international Chemical Weapons Convention I PAGE 23 Second Circuit addresses novel issues under Hague Child Abduction Convention, including whether separating a child from autism therapy is sufficiently grave to trigger exceptions to the general rule that children wrongfully removed or retained should be returned to their country of habitual residence 1 PAGE 27 In dispute over foreign shipping contract where one party filed for discovery in Florida under 28 U.S.C. Section 1782, Eleventh Circuit reviews whether discovery may proceed where the lawsuits contemplated in Ecuador were within reasonable contemplation 1 PAGE 34 District of Columbia Circuit ponders whether an informer lacks standing under the Neutrality Act; informer had claimed benefits by denouncing the outfitting in the U.S. of vessels that were to be used against Israel, a country at peace with the U.S. 1 PAGE 3 8

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