Suchergebnisse

642Jurisdiction — Executive — Consequences of illegal arrest and expulsion — Arrest in Chile of Chilean national by Chilean authorities — Alleged mistreatment — Expulsion to United States for trial on criminal charges — Alleged complicity of United States in arrest, mistreatment and expulsion — Whether circumstances of arrest precluding trial in the United StatesState responsibility — Acts of officials of other States — Defendant arrested by Chilean officials at request of United States Government — Allegations of torture and ill-treatment of defendant by Chilean officials — Whether United States responsible for acts of Chilean officials — The law of the United States

33Air — Aircraft — Jurisdiction over crimes committed on board aircraft — Indecent assault — Special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States — Whether extending to crime committed by Romanian citizen against Norwegian citizen on foreign aircraft outside the United States — Aircraft bound for and landing in the United States — Tokyo, Hague and Montreal ConventionsJurisdiction — Extraterritorial — Crimes committed on board aircraft — Special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States — Whether extending to crime committed by Romanian citizen against Norwegian citizen on foreign aircraft outside the United States — Aircraft bound for and landing in the United States — Tokyo, Hague and Montreal Conventions — Passive personality jurisdiction — Whether Norway possesses jurisdictionRelationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Effect in municipal law — Legislation giving effect to treaties Interpretation — Conflict between treaty and subsequent statute — Statute prevailing — The law of the United States

Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Over ports and national waters — Crime committed by United States national on board vessel registered in United States while in harbour belonging to Federal Republic of Germany — Jurisdiction of flag State and territorial sovereign — The law of the United StatesJurisdiction — In general — Personal — Over nationals in respect of crimes committed abroad — Manslaughter committed by United States citizen on board United States vessel in territorial waters of Federal Republic of Germany — Whether certain proceedings before Federal Republic's courts constituted an assertion of jurisdiction by the territorial sovereign so as to oust jurisdiction of flag State — The law of the United States

530Jurisdiction — Territorial — Extraterritorial effect of legislation — United States Congress — Presumption against extraterritorial effect — Whether presumption to be strictly applied — Evidence of clear Congressional intention needed to rebut presumption — Waiver of sovereign immunity by United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act with regard to acts and omissions occurring in a "foreign country" — Whether extending to acts and omissions committed by United States in AntarcticaTerritory — Antarctica — Sovereignty — Whether Antarctica a "foreign country" for purposes of Federal Tort Claims Act — Decision turning on whether "foreign country" synonymous with sovereign State — Antarctic Treaty, 1959State responsibility — Tort — Plaintiff killed in Antarctica while working for United States Government agency — Whether United States liable for acts and omissions occurring in Antarctica — The law of the United States

186Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial jurisdiction — Territorial limits of jurisdiction — Objective territorial principle — Defendant possessing, forging and uttering United States treasury cheques in Mexico — Whether United States courts have jurisdiction — The law of the United States

230Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Objective territorial jurisdiction — Appellant in Mexico persuading person to travel from Mexico to United States and return with sum of money — Appellant's acts all taking place outside United States — Convicted of inducing person to travel in interstate commerce in execution of scheme to obtain money by false pretences — Circumstances of arrest of appellant — Whether United States Court had jurisdiction — The law of the United States

245Jurisdiction — Immunity from — Foreign Armed Forces — Crimes Committed by Employee of — Immunity under International Agreement — United States National Employed by Contractor Working for United States Armed Forces in Japan — The Law of the United States of America.

Jurisdiction — Territorial — In general — Foreign territory made available to State for military purposes — Applicability of law of State to — Control of narcotics law applicable in military facilities provided by Japan to the United States — The law of the United States of America.State territory — International leases and grants in perpetuity — Foreign territory made available to State for military purposes — Applicability of law of State to — Control of narcotics in military facilities provided by Japan to the United States — The law of the United States of America.

State territory — In general — Nature of territorial sovereignty — Sovereignty in trust territory — Whether sovereignty resides in people of the territory — Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands — The law of the United StatesState responsibility — Nature and kinds of State responsibility — In general — Responsibility of the United States for the acts of the Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands — The law of the United StatesStates as international persons — Composite and dependent States and territories — Mandated and trust territories — Sovereignty over mandated and trust territories — Status of mandated and trust territories — Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands — Whether Government of the Trust Territory an agency of the United States — Whether United States liable for breach of contract or unlawful taking of property by Trust Territory — Applicability of United States Constitution within Trust Territory — The law of the United States

37Diplomatic relations — Privileges and immunities — Diplomats — Diplomatic immunity dependent upon recognition of sending State by receiving State — Defendant claiming to be representative of Republic of New Afrika — Not recognized by the United States — Waiver of immunityState immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Defendant claiming to be minister of foreign State — Requirement that entity be recognized as a State or otherwise granted entitlement to immunityStates — Recognition — Republic of New Afrika — Not recognized by United States — Whether person claiming to be minister and representative of New Afrika entitled to immunity in United States courts — The law of the United States

War and armed conflict — Prisoners of war — Entitlement to prisoner of war status — Application of laws of armed conflict — Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949 — Whether applicable to situations arising within a State — First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 — Wars of national liberation — Puerto Rico — Whether Protocol I applicable — Protocol I not binding on the United States — Defendant not asserting membership of liberation movementRelationship between international law and municipal law — Treaties — United States Constitution, Ninth Amendment — Whether incorporating international laws of war into United States law — Whether including rules contained in treaty to which the United States not a party — First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 — The law of the United States

International law in general — Relation to municipal law — Whether individual allegedly abducted in violation of treaty can invoke treaty violation in municipal court — Effect of absence of protest by State in which abduction took place — The law of the United StatesState territory — In general — Nature of territorial sovereignty — Alleged abduction of Italian citizen from Uruguay by United States officials — Whether an infringement of territorial sovereignty contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and the Charter of the Organization of American States — The law of the United StatesThe individual in international law — In general — Position of individuals in international law — Violation of treaty provisions prohibiting infringements of territorial sovereignty — Whether violations can be invoked by individual before municipal courts — The law of the United StatesTreaties — Conclusion and operation — Operation and enforcement — Whether individual can invoke treaty violation in municipal courts — The law of the United StatesJurisdiction — In general — Territorial jurisdiction — Exemptions from and restrictions upon territorial jurisdiction — Irregular apprehension — Italian citizen allegedly abducted to the United States from Uruguay — Whether United States court has jurisdiction to try him — Alleged kidnapping a breach of the Charter of the United Nations and the Charter of the Organization of American States — Whether individual can invoke treaty violations — Alleged telephone-tapping by United States officials in foreign countries Whether covered by United States constitutional safeguards — The law of the United States

Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial jurisdiction — Exemptions from and restrictions upon territorial jurisdiction — Irregular apprehension — Defendants forcibly returned to United States from country with which United States had no extradition treaty — Acquiescence of officials of the country — Whether United States courts possess jurisdiction to try defendants — The law of the United StatesJurisdiction — In general — Personal jurisdiction — Over nationals in respect of crimes committed abroad — Theft and conspiracy — Principles of jurisdiction — Objective territorial principle — Irregular apprehension — Defendants forcibly abducted from foreign country — Acquiescence of officials of foreign country — The law of the United States