AuthorTitleCitationDocument TypeCase StatusSummaryYearRelevancy
  Motion of the Pink Triangle Coalition for a Cy Pres Allocation of Settlement Funds on Behalf of Gay and Lesbian Victims of Nazi Persecution (1/7/2002) Trial Court Documents   FN1. Documentary sources for the facts relied upon in this summary appear in the attached Proposal For A Cv Pres Allocation For Homosexual Victims Of The Nazis; citations to both original... 2002  
  Plaintiff's Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (8/22/2002) Trial Court Documents   FN1. By order dated December 11, 2001, this Court affirmed the October 9, 2001 order of the Magistrate Judge that Defendants' motion be treated and disposed of as a motion for summary... 2002  
  Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Taliman's Motion to Dismiss (6/27/2002) Trial Court Documents   FN1. The law of nations is also variously referred to as customary international law, public international law, or more colloquially, international human rights law. See Steinhardt... 2002  
  Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Support of Her Motion to Strike the Statement of Interest of the United States (6/18/2002) Trial Court Documents   Plaintiff, URSULA UNGARO-BENAGES, through undersigned counsel, hereby files this Memorandum of Law in Support of her Motion to Strike the Statement of Interest of the United States: FN1.... 2002  
  Responsive Pleading (8/1/2002) Trial Court Documents   Plaintiff addresses this court on the premise that this court itself gets its jurisdiction from a government built on the premises of democracy. That the government governs from the consent... 2002  
  Appendix JCX- 33-01 NO 8 (5/4/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Constitutionality of the Rohrabacher Amendment (7/25/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Don't Be Misled by Tax Scams; Irs Warns of 8 Common Schemes IR- 2001-19 (2/18/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  From the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (12/1/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Guatemala (2/1/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  In the Matter of George Blakemore, Complainant and Inter-parking, Inc., Previously Known as General Parking Corporation, Respondent (2/21/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Irs Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti's Oral Statement Before the Senate Finance Committee IR- 2001-45 (4/9/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Non Docketed Service Advice Review 2001 IRS NSAR 11407 (10/15/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Pool Report 8-1-01 #1 (8/1/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer (7/27/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer (8/1/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001  
  Appellant's Opening Brief (11/6/2001) Briefs   This action, originally filed in the California Superior Court, was removed to the district court on the basis of diversity between the parties and the amount in controversy exceeding... 2001  
  Appellants' Reply to Amici Curiae (1/1/2001) Briefs   By order of January 11, 2002, this court allowed three organizations the right to participate in this appeal as amici curiae, but granted the appellants leave to interpose by no later than... 2001  
  Brief and Appendix for Plaintiff-appellant, Thomas Williams (1/1/2001) Briefs   On April 20, 2001, the Honorable John C. Lifland, sitting in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, entered an Order Affirming the Decision of the Commissioner of... 2001  
  Brief for Respondent (4/25/2001) Briefs   This case involves the appropriateness of the collection action proposed by the respondent for the unpaid balance of an erroneous refund for tax year 1998 totaling $80,000. On March 26,... 2001  
  Brief of Amici Curiae of International Law Eric K. Yamamoto, University of Hawaii School of Law, Dale Minami, Minami, Lew & Tamaki, and Natsu Saito, Georgia State University College of Law in Support of Petitioners (7/12/2001) Briefs   FN1. Letters of consent to the filing of this brief have been lodged with the Clerk of Court pursuant to Rule 37.3 of this Court. Pursuant to Rule 37.6, amici state that they authored this... 2001  
  Brief of Appellant Adrian J. Jaymes (6/28/2001) Briefs   Oral argument is not requested in this case. This Court has jurisdiction to consider this case pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. §3742(a), Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and Rule 4, Federal Rules of... 2001  
  Brief of Appellees the Turner Corporation and Kitchell Corporation (3/27/2001) Briefs   Pursuant to Rule 26.1 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, defendants and appellees The Turner Corporation (Turner) and Kitchell Corporation (Kitchell) state that defendant... 2001  
  Brief of Plaintiffs-appellees in Response to Appellant Abraham Friedman (7/9/2001) Briefs   FN1. The standard of review in this Circuit of District Court decisions determining the allocation of a Rule 23 class action settlement fund is abuse of discretion. See In re Agent Orange... 2001  
  Brief of Settlement Class Plaintiffs-appellees (9/27/2001) Briefs   Appellants, UBS and Credit Suisse, claiming to act on behalf of an unidentified and quite possibly non-existent category of non-party Swiss companies, seek to appeal from an April 4, 2001... 2001  
  Petitioner-appellant's Opening Brief (10/5/2001) Briefs   In January of 1997 the United States government acting on behalf of the government of Austria filed a complaint pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3181 et. seq. seeking the extradition of Michael... 2001  
  Plaintiff's Amended Opening Brief (3/14/2001) Briefs   Plaintiff's case was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court in the State of California pursuant to California law. (E 1) Defendants removed the case to the United States District Court,... 2001  
  Bell v. U.s. Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division. (8/31/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. After making an independent review of the pleadings, files, and records in this case, and the July 9, 2001 findings, conclusions, and recommendation of the magistrate judge, the court concludes that the findings and conclusions are correct. It is therefore ordered that the findings, conclusions, and recommendation of the magistrate judge are... 2001  
  Hwang Geum Joo v. Japan 172 F.Supp.2d 52, United States District Court, District of Columbia. (10/4/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Foreign Sovereigns. Japan's comfort women system during World War Two was not commercial activity under FSIA. 2001  
  In re Nazi Era Cases Against German Defendants Litigation 129 F.Supp.2d 370, United States District Court, D. New Jersey. (3/1/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Slave Labor. Slave labor claim arising from Nazi regime presented a non-justiciable political question. 2001  
  In re World War Ii Era Japanese Forced Labor Litigation 164 F.Supp.2d 1160, United States District Court, N.D. California. (9/17/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Economic Sanctions. California statute compensating wartime slave labor was unconstitutional. 2001  
  Jeong v. Onoda Cement Co. Ltd. Not Reported in Cal.Rptr.2d, Superior Court of California. (9/14/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. On August 30, 2001, this Court heard the arguments of counsel with respect to Defendants' Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. The moving defendants are identified as follows: Taiheiyo Cement U.S .A., Inc.; Taiheiyo Cement Corporation; Glacier Northwest, Inc. (fka Lone Star Northwest, Inc.) and the California Portland Cement Company. The instant... 2001  
  Pigford v. Veneman Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, District of Columbia. (11/13/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. On December 20, 1999, and again on July 14, 2000, the Court delegated to the Arbitrator the review of late claim petitions filed pursuant to ¶ 5 (g) of the Consent Decree. There has been no public report on the late claim process. Given the thousands of farmers who have filed late claim affidavits, the implementation of this portion of the Decree... 2001  
  Sampson v. Federal Republic of Germany 250 F.3d 1145, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. (5/23/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Foreign Sovereigns. Germany did not waive its sovereign immunity with regard to its treatment of Nazi-era slave laborer. 2001  
  Thompson v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. 149 F.Supp.2d 38, United States District Court, S.D. New York. (6/27/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. INSURANCE - Life. Insurer accused of racial discrimination was not entitled to summary judgment. 2001  
  Tracy v. Commonwealth of Va. Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, W.D. Virginia. (12/26/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. Plaintiff Arthur Tracy brings this suit, which will be construed as an action pursuant 42 U.S.C. § 1983, with jurisdiction vested under 28 U.S.C. § 1343. In his complaint, plaintiff contends that his constitutional and statutory civil rights were violated by the State of Virginia and the United States of America when his ancestors were subjected to... 2001  
Maki Arakawa A New Forum for Comfort Women: Fighting Japan in United States Federal Court 16 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 174 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The dwindling number of living former comfort women survivors of the approximately 200,000 women forcibly and repeatedly raped to satisfy the sexual needs of the Japanese military during World War II (WWII) continue their over fifty year wait for justice. The Japanese government continues to stonewall numerous requests made by former comfort... 2001  
Harold S. Lewis, Jr. Affirmative Distraction: Race Preference and Bias in the New South 9 Journal of Southern Legal History Hist. 1 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The forms of affirmative action most widely condemned today involve some degree of preference based on race, gender, or national origin. We can put to one side outreach programs designed simply to enlarge the pool from which to recruit qualified minority applicants. Those are widely supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans .. Rather,... 2001  
Philip C. Aka Africa in the New World Order: the Trouble with the Notion of African Marginalization 9 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 187 (Spring 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Article presents an analysis of the place of Africa in the new world order. It is a role or position marked by the kind of heterogeneity and complexity conceivable of a continent of fifty-three states, over forty of them from sub-Saharan Africa alone. There are three aspects to the analysis. First is a theoretical statement on the concept of a... 2001  
Maria Ellinikos American Mncs Continue to Profit from the Use of Forced and Slave Labor Begging the Question: Should America Take a Cue from Germany? 35 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems Probs. 1 (Fall 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Globalization inspired American multinational corporations (MNCs) to establish themselves in expanding Asian, Latin American, and Eastern European markets and to profit from international human rights abuses, including forced and slave labor. The American government currently permits this activity to persist, implicitly accepting the MNCs' claim... 2001  
K. Lee Boyd Are Human Rights Political Questions? 53 Rutgers Law Review 277 (Winter, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Article discusses the applicability of the political question doctrine in the adjudication of international human rights claims. The political question doctrine insulates from judicial determination controversies that involve underlying political issues. Under this doctrine, federal courts are compelled to refrain from hearing certain cases... 2001  
  Arkansas Attorney General's Office Testifies on Misleading Mailings Targeting Seniors 2001-JUL National Association of Attorneys General: Consumer Protection Report 25 (July, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Chief of Staff and Counsel Darrin Williams, on behalf of Arkansas Attorney General Mark Pryor, testified before the Subcommittee on Social Security of the House Committee on Ways and Means about misleading mailings that target seniors. Joining Williams on the panel were: TREA Chairman George Smith, Former Executive Director Michael J. Zabko, and... 2001  
Richard O. Faulk Armageddon Through Aggregation? The Use and Abuse of Class Actions in International Dispute Resolution 10 Michigan State University-DCL Journal of International Law 205 (Summer, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   A troubling and dangerous phenomenon has emerged onto the international litigation landscape. The system of justice understood and appreciated by citizens in most democratic states, one which guarantees individual plaintiffs and defendants their day in court, is increasingly being sidestepped by procedural rules that allow entrepreneurial lawyers... 2001  
Karolyn A. Eilers Article 14(b) of the 1951 Treaty of Peace with Japan: Interpretation and Effect on Pows' Claims Against Japanese Corporations 11 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 469 (Fall, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. L2-4,T4Introduction 470 II. L2-4,T4Forced Labor in Japan During World War II 471 III. L2-4,T4Reparations 472 IV. L2-4,T4U.S. POWs' Forced Labor Claims 474 A. L3-4,T4POWs' Lawsuits 475 B. L3-4,T4California's Extension of the Statute of Limitations 475 C. L3-4,T4U.S. District Court Holds that the 1951 Treaty of Peace Bars POWs Claims 477 V.... 2001  
H. Jefferson Powell Attorney General Taney & the South Carolina Police Bill 5 Green Bag 75 (Autumn 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   ALTHOUGH THE SYSTEMATIC preservation of the opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States began with Attorney General William Wirt (1817-1829), they were not publicly available until the House of Representatives published a collection in 1841. In July 1850, the House called on President Millard Filmore to make available the opinions... 2001  
Elazar Barkan Between Restitution and International Morality 25 Fordham International Law Journal 46 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a sudden rush of restitution cases all over the world. I see in the pattern formed by these cases a central component of a new international morality. These cases testify to a new globalism that pays greater attention to human rights. Critics of these trends often refer to the spread of a victims... 2001  
Kara C. Ryf Burger-fischer v. Degussa Ag: U.s. Courts Allow Siemens and Degussa to Profit from Holocaust Slave Labor 33 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 155 (Winter, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Zelig Preis was only eighteen-years-old when he was forced to work as a slave laborer for Siemens, Germany's largest electronics and communications manufacturer. Siemens acquired Preis and thousands of other laborers from Nazi concentration camps to assist in the company's production of war-related equipment. Siemens subjected its laborers to the... 2001  
Martin D. Carcieri Bush v. Gore and Equal Protection 53 South Carolina Law Review 63 (Fall 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 63 II. Critiques of the Equal Protection Ruling. 66 A. Bush v. Gore Has No Basis in Precedent . 66 B. Bush v. Gore Has Basis in Precedent, and That's the Bad News. 75 III. Conclusion. 82 2001  
Madeline Doms Compensation for Survivors of Slave and Forced Labor: the Swiss Bank Settlement and the German Foundation Provide Options for Recovery for Holocaust Survivors 14 Transnational Lawyer 171 (Spring, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. L2-5,T5Introduction 172 II. L2-5,T5The US$1.25 Billion Swiss Bank Settlement Agreement 175 A. L3-5,T5Terms of the Settlement Agreement 177 B. L3-5,T5The Three-Step Evaluation Process 179 1. L4-5,T5Preliminary Approval and Class Certification 179 2. L4-5,T5Notice to Settlement Class Members 180 3. L4-5,T5Fairness Hearings 180 a. Procedural... 2001  
Vivian Grosswald Curran Competing Frameworks for Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-era Claims 25 Fordham International Law Journal 107 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   There are many angles from which to perceive the contemporary holocaust-era claims. In 1997, Time magazine quoted Elie Wiesel as saying that [i]f all the money in all the Swiss banks were turned over, it would not bring back the life of one Jewish child. But the money is a symbol. It is part of the story. If you suppress any part of the story, it... 2001  
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