Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials : 2006 Supplement
- ISBN-10
- 1587788535
- ISBN-13
- 9781587788536
- Series
- Conflict of Laws
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 37
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-05
- Publisher
- Foundation Press
- Authors
- Peter Hay, Russell J. Weintraub, Patrick J. Borchers
Description
The 2006 Supplement to Conflict of Laws, Twelfth Edition continues the tradition of carefully prepared annual supplements to this most widely-used of all Conflict of Laws casebooks. The supplement notes many important developments since publication of the Twelfth Edition including United States Supreme Court opinions determining the ability of foreign citizens injured abroad to sue under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Alien Tort Statute, and the Sherman Act; opinions of the Supreme Court and the Second Circuit on whether the "revenue rule" prevents criminal or civil actions against U.S. defendants who conspire to deprive foreign countries of taxes; this year's en banc decision of the Ninth Circuit that is the latest chapter in Yahoo!?s resistance to decrees of a French court; Massachusetts and Idaho state court decisions assessing the current effect on cruise ship customers of Carnival Cruise Lines v. Shute; the Federal Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and its effect on multi-state class actions; new developments both in the U.S. and in other countries regarding same-sex legal relationships and their incidents.
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