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Case Digest, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

1. ADMIRALTY LIABILITY LIMITATION IN SHIPPING CONTRACT SUBJECT TO CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA ACT IS NULL AND VOID WHERE CONTRACT PROVIDES SHIPPER No OPPORTUNITY TO DECLARE CARGO'S HIGHER VALUE PRIOR TO SHIPMENT

2. ALIENS' RIGHTS STATE DENIAL OF RESIDENT ALIEN'S APPLICATION FOR MINISTERIAL OFFICE ON SOLE GROUND OF ALIENAGE VIOLATES FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE

3. CUSTOMS DUTIES ACTUAL OWNER OF IMPORTED MERCHANDISE ENTERED BY A CUSTOM-HOUSE BROKER HAS STANDING UNDER 19 U.S.C. § 1514(b)(1) TO PROTEST CLASSIFICATION OF THE MERCHANDISE

4. JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE QUASI IN REM JURISDICTION OVER FOREIGN CORPORATION CAN BE BASED ON A PRIOR ATTACHMENT …

Books Received, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court

By David M. Engel

Tuscon, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1978. Pp. 230. $4.95.

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Human Rights and Development: Report of a Seminar on Human Rights and Their Promotion in the Caribbean

By the International Commission of Jurists and The Organization of Commonwealth Bar Associations

Bridgetown, Barbados, W.I.: The Cedar Press, 1978. Pp. 190.

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Iceburg Utilization: Proceedings of the First International Conference Held at Ames, Iowa

Edited by A.A. Husseiny

New York, New York: Pergamon Press, 1978. Pp. 760. $35.00.

Case Digest, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

1. Admiralty A State has Standing to Sue to Recover the Cost of Replacing Natural Resources Destroyed by Pollution

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2. Aliens' Rights Executive Order Barring Lawfully Admitted Resident Aliens from Federal Civil Service is Valid

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3. Constitutional Law Scope of Lacey Act Limited to Foreign Laws Designed to Protect Wildlife

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4. European Economic Community Restrictive Resale Provisions, Discriminating Pricing Policies, and Refusals to Deal by Corporation with a Dominant Position in a Substantial Part of EEC Violates Article 86 of the EEC Treaty

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5. International Travel Statute Suspending Social Security Income Benefits for Recipient Temporarily Out …

Recent Decisions, Aubrey W. Bogle, Iii, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, Clark C. Siewert, Joe B. Foltz, Michael P. Peck

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Admiralty--Requirement of Minimum Contacts for Jurisdiction to Attach Property of Nonresident Defendant is not Applicable to Maritime Attachment

Aubrey W. Bogle, III

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Buy American Statutes--New Jersey--Constitutionality of Buy American Statute Upheld by State Supreme Court

Edward H. Lueckenhoff

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Citizenship--The Fourteenth Amendment requires Proof by Clear, Convincing, and Unequivocal Evidence that Relinquishment of United States Citizenship is Voluntary

Clark C. Siewert

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Extradition--Double Jeopardy Provision of Extradition Treaty Applies even Where Crime Committed before Ratification

Michael P. Peck

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Sovereign Immunity--Service of Process in the United States on a Permanent Mission to the United Nations must Conform to the …

Recent Decisions, Richard F. Cook, Jr., Edward C. Brewer, Iii, Daniel R. Wofsey, Sue D. Sheridan, Steven M. Morgan

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Recent Decisions

Admiralty--Time Charter--Shipowner's Contractual Right to Withdraw Services of Vessel upon Charterer's Failure to Provide Punctual Payment is not Extinguished by Late Tender of Payment

Richard F. Cook, Jr.

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Antitrust--Treble Damages--A Foreign Sovereign is a "Person" entitled to Sue under Section 4 of the Clayton Act

Edward Cage Brewer, III

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Customs search of International Mail--A Customs Search of International Mail is Authorized by 19 C.F.R. § 145.2 and Incorporates the Reasonable Cause to Suspect Requirement of 19 U.S.C. § 482

Daniel R. Wofsey

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Jurisdiction and Procedure--Discovery--Party unable to comply with Discovery Order which Contravenes Foreign Nondisclosure …