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DIGEST OF

UNITED STATES PRACTICE

IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

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DIGEST OFUNITED STATES PRACTICE

IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

2010

Elizabeth R. Wilcox Editor

Offi ce of the Legal Adviser

United States Department of State

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INTERNATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE

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PREFACE xxiii

INTRODUCTION xxv

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR xxxi

Chapter 1 NATIONALITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND IMMIGRATION 1 A. NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP 1 B. PASSPORTS 6

Gender Changes 6 C. IMMIGRATION AND VISAS 7

1. Visa Waiver Program 7 2. INA Exemptions Resolve First Amendment

Challenges to Visa Denials 7 3. Expulsion of Aliens 8

D. ASYLUM AND REFUGEE STATUS AND RELATED ISSUES 10 Cross References 11

Chapter 2 CONSULAR AND JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND RELATED ISSUES 13 A. CONSULAR NOTIFICATION, ACCESS, AND ASSISTANCE 13

1. Department of State Guidance on Consular Notifi cation and Access for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement and Other Offi cials 13 a. Third edition of manual on consular notifi cation

and access 13 b. Executive branch statements concerning signifi cance

of Consular Notifi cation and Access Manual 20 2. Avena Implementation and Related Issues 23

a. Executive branch communications with U.S. Congress 23 b. Collaboration with the Uniform Law Commission 25

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c. Proposal to the Advisory Committee on the Criminal Rules 26

d. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights proceedings 28

3. Private Right of Action for Money Damages or Other Relief 29

B. CHILDREN 30 1. Adoption 30 2. Abduction 31

a. Ne exeat clause 31 b. 2010 Hague Abduction Convention

Compliance Report 35 Cross References 36

Chapter 3 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW 37 A. EXTRADITION AND MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE 37

1. U.S.–EU Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance Agreements 37

2. U.S.–Bermuda Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty 38 3. U.S.–Algeria Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty 39 4. Extradition of Fugitives Alleging Fear of Torture 40

a. Saldana v. United States 40 b. Trinidad y Garcia v. Benov 45 c. Prasoprat v. Benov 50

5. Extradite or Prosecute 50 6. Universal Jurisdiction 52 7. Visa Waiver Program Agreements on Preventing and

Combating Serious Crime 57 B. INTERNATIONAL CRIMES 58

1. Terrorism 58 a. Country reports on terrorism 58 b. UN General Assembly 58 c. UN Security Council 62 d. New counterterrorism treaties concerning

aviation security 64 e. U.S. actions against support for terrorists 66

(1) U.S. targeted sanctions implementing UN Security Council resolutions 66

(2) Foreign Terrorist Organizations 66 (i) New designations and modifi cations

of existing designations 66

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(ii) Reviews of FTO designations 67 (iii) FTO-related litigation 69

(A) Petition for review of Secretary’s determination to retain FTO designation 69

(B) Litigation challenging U.S. material support statute 70

(3) Maritime counterterrorism efforts 71 f. U.S.–EU agreement on sharing fi nancial transaction

information 72 g. Libya terrorist case: Abdel Basset

Mohamed al-Megrahi 74 2. Narcotraffi cking 79

a. Majors List process 79 (1) International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 79 (2) Major drug transit or illicit drug

producing countries 80 b. Interdiction assistance 80

3. Traffi cking in Persons 81 a. Traffi cking in Persons Report 81 b. Presidential determination 82 c. Human Rights Council resolution 85 d. Global Plan of Action 87

4. Money Laundering 89 5. Organized Crime 90 6. Corruption 93 7. Torture 95 8. Piracy 103

a. Overview 103 b. International support for efforts to bring suspected

pirates to justice 103 c. U.S. prosecutions 105

(1) Overview 105 (2) United States v. Ali Said 106 (3) United States v. Hasan 109

C. INTERNATIONAL, HYBRID, AND OTHER TRIBUNALS 115 1. Overview 115 2. International Criminal Court 119

a. Address to Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute 119

b. Kampala Review Conference 123 c. Situation in Darfur, Sudan 137 d. Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 138 e. Situation in the Republic of Kenya 139

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3. International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda 139 a. Overview 139 b. Residual mechanism 142

4. Special Court for Sierra Leone 143 5. Special Tribunal for Lebanon 144 6. Khmer Rouge Tribunal (“ECCC”) 145

Cross References 149

Chapter 4 TREATY AFFAIRS 151

A. CONCLUSION, ENTRY INTO FORCE, RESERVATIONS, APPLICATION, AND TERMINATION 151 1. Reservations to Treaties 151 2. Treaties Over Time 154 3. Effect of Armed Confl ict on Treaties 155

B. OTHER ISSUES 159 President’s Committee on the International

Labor Organization 159 Cross References 161

Chapter 5 FOREIGN RELATIONS 163 A. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF STATE LAW

CONCERNING IMMIGRATION 163 B. ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT AND TORTURE

VICTIM PROTECTION ACT 168 1. Overview 168

a. Pfi zer, Inc. v. Abdullahi 169 b. Al-Aulaqi v. Obama 176 c. Arar v. Ashcroft 181

C. ACT OF STATE AND POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINES 183 1. In re Refi ned Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation 183 2. Guevara v. Republic of Peru 187 3. Al-Aulaqi v. Obama 189

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Chapter 6 HUMAN RIGHTS 199 A. GENERAL 199

1. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 199 2. Human Rights Council 199

a. Overview 199 b. U.S. Universal Periodic Review 202 c. Procedure and practice 208 d. Work of Special Rapporteurs 214 e. Special Session 215

3. Protection of Persons 215 4. Memoranda Regarding U.S. Human Rights

Treaty Reports 216 B. DISCRIMINATION 217

1. Race 217 a. Overview 217 b. Durban follow up 222

(1) Human Rights Council 222 (2) General Assembly 223

c. Other issues relating to protecting freedom of expression while countering racism or intolerance 225

d. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 227

e. OAS Resolution on the Draft Inter-American Convention Against Racism 228

2. Gender 230 a. CEDAW 230 b. Establishment of UN Women 232 c. Women and armed confl ict 232

(1) Security Council Resolution 1325 232 (2) Security Council Resolution 1960 235

d. New Human Rights Council mechanism 238 3. Sexual Orientation 239

C. CHILDREN 241 1. Optional Protocols to the Convention on the

Rights of the Child 241 2. Children and Armed Confl ict 242

a. Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Confl ict 242

b. Security Council 242 c. Human Rights Council 243 d. Child soldiers 244

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3. Resolutions on Rights of the Child 246 a. Human Rights Council 246 b. General Assembly 247

D. ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, AND RELATED ISSUES 249 1. Water and Sanitation and Human Rights 249

a. General Assembly resolution on the right to water and sanitation 249

b. Human Rights Council resolution on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation 250

2. Food 251 a. Human Rights Council resolution 251 b. General Assembly resolution 254

3. Housing 254 a. Human Rights Council resolution 254 b. Special Rapporteur’s mission 255

4. Right to Development 257 a. Human Rights Council resolution 257 b. General Assembly resolution 258

5. Human Rights and Extreme Poverty 259 6. Foreign Debt and Human Rights 260 7. Cultural Rights 261

E. INDIGENOUS ISSUES 262 F. PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS 284 G. CLIMATE CHANGE 284 H. TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR

DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 285 1. Presidential Statement 285 2. Special Rapporteur 286

I. JUDICIAL PROCEDURE, PENALTIES, AND RELATED ISSUES 287 1. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:

Petition of Victor Saldaño 287 2. Death Penalty 290 3. Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions 292 4. Administration of Justice 294

J. DETENTION AND MISSING PERSONS 295 K. RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY PROMOTION 296

1. Rule of Law at the National and International Levels 296 a. Security Council debate 296 b. General Assembly Sixth Committee debate 299

2. Civil Society 300

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3. Cote d’Ivoire 300 4. Iran 302

L. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 303 1. Press Freedom 303 2. Internet Freedom 303 3. Religion 306

a. Freedom of religion 306 (1) Annual Report on International

Religious Freedom 306 (2) Special Rapporteur on freedom of

religion or belief 306 b. Defamation of religions 307

(1) Human Rights Council resolution 307 (2) Submission to the Offi ce of the High

Commissioner for Human Rights 308 (3) General Assembly resolution 311

c. OHCHR ICCPR Article 20 Conferences 312 M. FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATION 315 N. SELF-DETERMINATION 317 O. HUMAN RIGHTS AND COUNTERTERRORISM 318 Cross References 319

Chapter 7 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 321 A. UN REFORM 321

1. Security Council 321 2. System-wide Coherence: Improving UN Efforts

Concerning Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment 323

3. Internal Justice System 324 4. Criminal Accountability of UN Offi cials and

Experts on Mission 327 B. ECOSOC: CONSULTATIVE STATUS FOR NON-

GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 329 C. INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE 332 D. INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION 332 E. UN SECRETARIAT: DETERMINATION OF PERSONAL

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Chapter 8 INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS AND STATE RESPONSIBILITY 337 A. INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION 337

1. Draft Articles on State Responsibility 337 2. Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection 338

B. NAZI ERA CLAIMS 339 C. REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS 345 Cross References 346

Chapter 9 DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, SUCCESSION, CONTINUITY OF STATES, AND OTHER STATEHOOD ISSUES 347 ICJ ADVISORY OPINION ON KOSOVO’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 347

Chapter 10 PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES 351 A. FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY 351

1. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 351 a. Exceptions to immunity 351

(1) Commercial activity 351 (i) Swarna v. Al-Awadi 352 (ii) Nexus requirements: Guevara v.

Republic of Peru 354 (2) Non-commercial tort exception 358

(i) Holy See v. Doe 358 (ii) Swarna v. Al-Awadi 363

(3) Acts of terrorism 365 (i) Rux v. Republic of Sudan 366 (ii) Private right of action and the

Algiers Accords 373 b. Execution of judgments and other

post-judgment actions 374 (1) Attachment under the Terrorism Risk

Insurance Act: Bennett v. Iran 374 (2) Attachment under the FSIA 378

(i) Presumption of immunity for foreign state property: Peterson v. Iran 378

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(ii) Rights to payment as property under the FSIA 382

(iii) Assets of foreign central banks 384 c. In rem action 391 d. Service of process 391

(1) Service requirements in post-judgment actions: Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran 392

(2) Differences between service under the Hague Service Convention and under the FSIA: Sabbithi v. Al Saleh 393

2. Foreign Offi cials 397 B. HEAD OF STATE IMMUNITY 428 C. DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PRIVILEGES

AND IMMUNITIES 430 1. Residual Immunity 430 2. Immunity of Family Members of Accredited Diplomats 436

D. OTHER ISSUES OF STATE REPRESENTATION 442Designation of a Benefi t Under the Foreign Missions Act 442

E. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 454 1. Immunity of the United Nations and Former

UN Offi cials 454 2. Extension of Immunities 459


Chapter 11 TRADE, COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, INVESTMENT, AND TRANSPORTATION 461 A. TRANSPORTATION BY AIR 461

1. U.S.–EU Air Transport Agreement 461 2. U.S.–Japan Memorandum of Understanding 462 3. Other U.S. Open Skies and Air Transport Agreements 463 4. Application of the Tokyo and Warsaw Conventions:

Eid v. Alaska Airlines 463 B. NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 469

1. Investment Dispute Settlement Under Chapter 11 469 a. Venue transfer under Article 2005(4) of the

NAFTA: Dolphin-safe tuna dispute 469 b. U.S. Article 1128 submission: Mobil Investments

Canada Inc. v. Gov’t of Canada 471 2. Trucking 474

C. WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 474 1. Dispute Settlement 474

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a. Disputes brought by the United States 475 (1) Disputes brought by the United States

against China 475 (i) China—Certain Measures Affecting

Electronic Payment Services (DS413) 475 (ii) China—Countervailing and Anti-Dumping

Duties on Grain Oriented Flat-rolled Electrical Steel from the United States (DS414) 476

(iii) China—Subsidies on Wind Power Equipment (DS419) 477

(2) Disputes brought by the United States against the European Union 478 (i) European Communities—Tariff Treatment

of Certain Information Technology Products (WT/DS375) 478

(ii) European Union—Subsidies on large civil aircraft (DS316) 480

(iii) European Union—Regime for the importation, sale, and distribution of bananas—Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States (WT/DS27) 481

b. Disputes brought against the United States 483 (1) United States—Subsidies on Upland

Cotton (WT/DS267) 483 (2) United States—Defi nitive Antidumping and

Countervailing Duties on Certain products from China (China) (WT/DS379) 484

(3) United States—Measures Affecting Imports of Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tyres from China (DS399) 486

(4) Zeroing 487 2. WTO Accession: Yemen 490

D. OTHER TRADE AGREEMENTS AND TRADE-RELATED ISSUES 491 1. Trade Legislation and Trade Preferences 491 2. Labor: CAFTA-DR Request for Consultations

with Guatemala 492 3. Arbitration and Related Actions Arising from

the Softwood Lumber Agreement 494 4. Most Favored Nation Clauses 496

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E. COMMUNICATIONS 497 1. Licensing of Telecommunications Services to Cuba 497 2. Iran, Sudan, and Cuba: Personal Communications

on the Internet 500 F. OTHER ISSUES 500

1. Intellectual Property: Special 301 Report 500 2. Tax-related Issues 501

a. Bilateral tax treaties and tax information exchange agreements 501

b. Multilateral tax treaties 502 3. International Monetary Issues 503 4. Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Securities Law and

Regulation 504 Cross References 510

Chapter 12 TERRITORIAL REGIMES AND RELATED ISSUES 511 A. LAW OF THE SEA AND RELATED BOUNDARY ISSUES 511

1. UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 511 a. Support for U.S. accession 511 b. Meeting of States Parties to the Convention 512

2. Other Boundary or Territorial Issues 513 3. Piracy 514 4. Freedom of Navigation 514

a. Northern Canada Vessel Traffi c Services Zone 514 b. Torres Strait 520 c. Archipelagic states 522

5. Safety Zones 524 6. Maritime Security and Law Enforcement 525 7. Salvage at Sea 526 8. U.S. Executive Order on Oceans, Coasts, and

the Great Lakes 529 B. OUTER SPACE 530 Cross References 533

Chapter 13 ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER TRANSNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ISSUES 535 ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION 535 A. LAND AND AIR POLLUTION AND RELATED ISSUES 535

1. Climate Change 535 a. Copenhagen Accord: U.S. submission 535

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b. Climate change negotiations 536 (1) Legal form 536 (2) UN Framework Convention on Climate

Change: Conference of the Parties 539 2. Ozone Depletion 542 3. Transboundary Harm and Allocation of Loss 544

B. PROTECTION OF MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND MARINE CONSERVATION 546 1. Air Pollution from Ships: Designation of Emission

Control Area Under MARPOL Annex VI 546 2. Fish and Marine Mammals 549

a. General Assembly resolution 549 b. Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fi shing 550 c. Conservation and management of migratory sharks 553

3. Sea Turtle Conservation and Shrimp Imports 554 4. Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction 557

C. OTHER CONSERVATION ISSUES 558 1. Shared Natural Resources: Transboundary Aquifers 558 2. Shared Natural Resources: Transboundary Oil and Gas 560 3. Forest Conservation 560


Chapter 14 EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES 563 A. CULTURAL PROPERTY: IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 563

1. El Salvador 563 2. Nicaragua 565

B. PRESERVATION OF AMERICA’S HERITAGE ABROAD 566 Cross References 566

Chapter 15 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 567 A. COMMERCIAL LAW 567

1. UNCITRAL 567 a. Review of work 567 b. UN General Assembly resolutions 569

2. UNIDROIT: Commentary on Model Leasing Law 570 B. FAMILY LAW 570

1. Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance 570 a. Senate resolution of advice and consent 570 b. Executive branch statements 573

2. Child Protection Convention 574

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C. INTERNATIONAL CIVIL LITIGATION 575 1. Convention on Contracts for the International

Sale of Goods 575 2. Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses 580 3. Forum Non Conveniens 590 4. Cross-border Insolvency 594 5. Service of Process Abroad 607 6. Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Entities in U.S. Courts 611 7. International Comity 619


Chapter 16 SANCTIONS, EXPORT CONTROLS, AND CERTAIN OTHER RESTRICTIONS 623 A. IMPOSITION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND

MODIFICATION OF SANCTIONS, EXPORT CONTROLS, AND CERTAIN OTHER RESTRICTIONS 623 1. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK”

or “North Korea”) 624 a. Executive Order 13551 624 b. Sanctions under Executive Order 13382 628

2. Iran 630 a. Overview 630 b. Security Council 632

(1) Security Council Resolution 1929 632 (2) Implementation of Resolution 1929: U.S.

report to Security Council 639 c. U.S. sanctions and other controls 645

(1) Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 645 (i) Overview 645 (ii) Energy-related sanctions 646 (iii) Other sanctions 653 (iv) Financial sanctions 653 (v) Human rights sanctions 656 (vi) Sensitive technology 660 (vii) Ban on imports and exports;

importation of certain Iranian-origin carpets and foodstuffs 660

(2) Sanctions under Executive Order 13382 661 (3) Executive Order 13224 designations 663 (4) Iranian Transactions Regulations 664

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3. Nonproliferation 665 a. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 665 b. Iran 665 c. Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act 665 d. Modifi cation of sanctions and assistance restrictions 667

4. Terrorism 668 a. Security Council 1267 (al-Qaeda/Taliban) sanctions 668 b. U.S. targeted fi nancial sanctions implementing

Resolution 1267 and other Security Council resolutions on terrorism 669 (1) Overview 669 (2) Department of State 670 (3) Offi ce of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) 671

(i) OFAC designations 671 (ii) OFAC de-listings 672

c. Countries not cooperating fully with antiterrorism efforts 672

d. Foreign Terrorist Organizations 673 e. Regulatory changes 673

5. Armed Confl ict: Restoration of Peace and Security 674 a. Democratic Republic of the Congo 674

(1) OFAC designations 674 (2) Security Council sanctions renewal 674

b. Sierra Leone 676 c. Iraq 677

(1) Security Council 677 (2) Iraq Stabilization and Insurgency Sanctions

Regulations 680 d. Sudan 681

(1) Security Council 681 (i) Report of the Sudan Panel of Experts 681 (ii) Renewal of Mandate of the Sudan

Panel of Experts 682 (2) Statement of licensing policy 683 (3) Presidential Determination 684

e. Eritrea 684 f. Somalia 685

(i) Security Council 685 (ii) Executive Order 13536 687

6. Threats to Democratic Processes 690 a. Lebanon 690 b. Belarus sanctions 691 c. Cote d’Ivoire: Travel restrictions 692

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B. OTHER ISSUES 692 1. Litigation 692

a. Licensing requirement for Cuban company’s application to renew trademark 692

b. Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and related issues 693

2. Iran, Sudan, and Cuba: Personal Communications on the Internet 693

C. EXPORT CONTROLS 697 1. Commerce Department Entity List 697 2. Nonproliferation-related Changes 698

a. Australia Group 698 b. MTCR 698 c. Wassenaar Arrangement 698


Chapter 17 INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND AVOIDANCE 701 PEACE PROCESS AND RELATED ISSUES 701 A. ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT 701 B. SUDAN 707 C. UGANDA 711 Cross References 713

Chapter 18 USE OF FORCE, ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT, AND NONPROLIFERATION 715 A. USE OF FORCE 715

1. General 715 a. Overview 715 b. Use of force issues related to specifi c confl icts 719

(1) Gaza 719 (i) May 31, 2010 fl otilla incident 719 (ii) UN Fact-Finding Mission on the

Gaza Confl ict 723 (2) Russia/Georgia 727 (3) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

(“DPRK” or “North Korea”) 729 c. Bilateral agreements and arrangements 733

(1) Defense cooperation with Brazil 733

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(2) Military air transit agreement with Kazakhstan 734 (3) Rail transit agreement with Kazakhstan 735

d. International humanitarian law 735 (1) 60th anniversary of Geneva Conventions 735 (2) Protection of civilians in armed confl ict 737 (3) Private military security companies, military

contractors, and their accountability 738 (i) Open-ended intergovernmental

working group 738 (ii) International Code of Conduct for

Private Security Service Providers 740 2. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons:

Negotiation of CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions 742

3. Detainees 745 a. Overview 745 b. Final Report: Guantanamo Review Task Force 750 c. U.S. court decisions and proceedings 753

(1) Detainees at Guantanamo: Habeas litigation 753 (i) Overview 753 (ii) Al-Bihani v. Obama 754 (iii) Awad v. Obama 756 (iv) Bensayah v. Obama 758 (v) Salahi v. Obama 759 (vi) Al-Adahi v. Obama 761

(2) Detainees at Guantanamo: Transfer litigation 763 (i) Uighur detainees 763 (ii) Algerian detainees 765

(3) Detainees held in Afghanistan: Habeas litigation 767

(4) Former detainees in Iraq: Civil suit against U.S. offi cial 771

d. Criminal prosecutions and other proceedings 774 (1) Overview 774 (2) Military commissions 776

(i) Manual 776 (ii) Proceedings 776

B. NONPROLIFERATION, ARMS CONTROL, AND DISARMAMENT 778 1. Nuclear Nonproliferation 778

a. Non-Proliferation Treaty 778 (1) Nuclear Posture Review 778

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(2) Review Conference 781 (i) Opening statement 781 (ii) Outcome 784

(3) Transparency in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile 787

(4) Nuclear-weapon-free zones 788 b. Country-specifi c issues 791

(1) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK” or “North Korea”) 791

(2) Iran 791 (3) Agreements for cooperation on peaceful

uses of nuclear energy 792 (i) India 792 (ii) Australia 794 (iii) Russia 796

(4) Plutonium Disposition Protocol 798 2. Nuclear Terrorism: Nuclear Security Summit 800 3. Proliferation Security Initiative 802 4. Chemical and Biological Weapons 804

a. Chemical weapons 804 b. Biological weapons 806

5. Ballistic Missile Defense 811 6. New START Treaty 812 7. Treaty on Open Skies: Review Conference 821 8. Arms Trade Treaty 824 9. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties 828 10. Arms Embargoes 830


Table of Cases 831

Index 843

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I am pleased to introduce this latest edition of the Digest of United States Practice in International Law for the calendar year 2010. This is the thirteenth edition of the Digest published by the International Law Institute, and the seventh edition co-published with Oxford University Press. We are very pleased with our co-publishing relationship with them, and look forward to helping them make the Digest even more widely available in the future.

It is my hope that practitioners and scholars will fi nd this new edition of the Digest , tracking the most important developments in the state practice of the United States during 2010, to be useful.

As always, the Institute is also very pleased to work with the Offi ce of the Legal Adviser to make the Digest available for the use of the international legal community, and we express our greatest appreciation for their commitment to the Digest .

Don Wallace, Jr. Chairman

International Law Institute

Preface

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I am delighted to introduce the annual edition of the Digest of United States Practice in International Law for 2010. This edition is fully available not just in print, but also on the State Department’s website ( www.state.gov/s/l ) and on the U.S. government’s new law-related website, law.data.gov ( http://explore.data.gov/catalog/raw/?Dataset-Summary_Agency=Department+of+State&page=2 ); the volumes for 1989-2009 have been posted on both sites as well. The 2010 Digest provides a historical record of developments that took place during calendar year 2010, illustrating how the United States put our strategic vision of international law into practice. That concept rests on the principle that obeying international law promotes U.S. foreign policy interests and strengthens our interna-tional leadership.

The United States’ active participation in international tribunals and other international bodies formed an important part of our practice in 2010. Over the year, the United States continued to engage with the International Criminal Court while maintaining its active support for other international tribunals. I was proud to co-head the U.S. observer delegation at both the resumed Eighth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute in New York in March 2010 and the fi rst Review Conference of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute in Kampala in May and June 2010. The United States’ active engagement with the Court and the parties to the Rome Statute has enabled us to help shape the direction of the Court to ensure that it fulfi lls its important mandate to bring to justice the perpetrators of mass atrocities.

In its fi rst full year as a member of the Human Rights Council, the United States engaged in all aspects of the body’s work. For example, the United States participated in the Council’s fi rst Universal Periodic Review of the United States’ human rights record, submitting its written report in August 2010. In November 2010,

Introduction

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I was privileged to co-lead with Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Michael Posner and Assistant Secretary for International Organizations Esther Brimmer a high-level inter-agency delegation in presenting the U.S. report in Geneva and to answer questions about the U.S. human rights record. The United States also took the lead or contributed strongly to the Council’s decisions to establish a new Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association and a new mecha-nism to address gender discrimination. Finally, the United States supported the Human Rights Council’s Special Session in December 2010 concerning the crisis in Cote d’Ivoire. Convening the Special Session sent a strong signal of the Council’s resolve to protest human rights violations and abuses and prevent future violations and abuses in Cote d’Ivoire, and also marked the Council’s increas-ing willingness to focus on country-specifi c situations, a trend we welcome.

In the area of the law of armed confl ict, the United States con-tinued to place priority on ensuring that its detention operations, detainee prosecutions, and operations involving the use of force—including those in the armed confl ict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces—are consistent with all applicable law, including international law. In January 2010, an interagency task force established by President Obama completed a comprehensive review of the status of all of the individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay when President Obama assumed offi ce and made consensus determinations about the disposition of each detainee’s case con-sistent with national security, the interests of justice, and the U.S. longstanding policy not to transfer any individual to a country where it is more likely than not he would be tortured. In habeas litigation brought by Guantanamo detainees in U.S. federal court, the United States continued to assert the 2001 statutory Authorization for Use of Military Force (“AUMF”) as the basis for the President’s detention authority and to make clear that the laws of war would inform the executive branch’s interpretation of the AUMF. With respect to detention operations in Afghanistan, the United States continued its rigorous implementation of detainee review procedures established in 2009.

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Negotiating, joining, and implementing treaties remained another important aspect of U.S. efforts to promote international law in 2010. The Senate provided its advice and consent to ratifi -cation of the New START Treaty, which entered into force earlier this year and represented a landmark contribution to the global arms control and nonproliferation regime. In the family law area, the Senate provided its advice and consent to ratifi cation of the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, and the United States signed the Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. The Senate also provided its advice and consent to ratifi cation of two treaties concerning defense trade cooperation with Australia and the United Kingdom. The United States also signed many treaties and agreements, including two new treaties relating to aviation secu-rity, the 2010 Beijing Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation and the 2010 Beijing Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, and air transport agreements with the European Union and its Member States and with Japan. U.S. treaty implementation efforts spanned numerous areas, including human rights and consular relations. For example, the State Department released the updated and expanded third edition of its Consular Notifi cation and Access Manual, an important feature of the executive branch’s work to ensure U.S. compliance with the consular notifi cation and access requirements of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and related bilateral consular conventions.

The Offi ce of the Legal Adviser worked closely with colleagues in other bureaus and departments on a broad array of resolutions considered and adopted during the year by the Security Council, the General Assembly, and other UN bodies, including for exam-ple the adoption and implementation of a range of critically impor-tant resolutions related to peacekeeping missions and sanctions programs in various countries around the world, and efforts to stem the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In December

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2010, the United States played a key role in negotiating UN Security Council Resolution 1966, which established an institution known as the residual mechanism to handle the essential functions remaining when the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda conclude their work, including the prosecution of fugitives indicted by the tribu-nals who remain at large after the two tribunals cease functioning.

The Supreme Court issued several noteworthy decisions in 2010 on issues arising in our increasingly globalized world. In Abbott v. Abbott , the Court held that “rights of custody” under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction include a ne exeat right, which is a parent’s right to consent before the other parent removes a child from a country. In the area of foreign sovereign and offi cial immunity, the Court held in Samantar v. Yousuf that the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act does not govern immunity for foreign offi cials, making clear that the immunity of individual foreign offi cials should be determined under the common law instead, and the important role of the executive branch in such determinations.

Despite the many accomplishments in international law that this edition documents, 2010 was also marked by loss, with the passing of several distinguished fi gures in the international legal community. As I wrote on October 15, 2010, in Opinio Juris , Professor Louis Henkin “was one of the few truly great men I have ever met” who dramatically “shaped modern international human rights law” over his long and distinguished career. * 2 Sir Ian Brownlie made incalculable contributions to international law, including through his membership in the International Law Commission. The United States is thankful for Ms. Paula Escarameia’s invalu-able service as a member of the International Law Commission, and we pay our respects to Professor Rex Nettleford, who passed away while he was serving on a Human Rights Council mission to the United States. As a member of the World Trade Organization’s

* Harold Hongju Koh, “Louis Henkin (1917–2010),” Opinio Juris (Oct. 15, 2010), available at http://opiniojuris.org/2010/10/15/louis-henkin-1917-2010/ .

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panel in the tuna dolphin dispute brought against the United States, Mr. Sivakant Tiwari served with great integrity and professional-ism, as he had in his distinguished earlier career in the Singapore Legal Service. Finally, we also owe our gratitude to Mr. Krzysztof Skubiszewski, who brought wisdom and fairness to his duties as President of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. I would like to acknowl-edge the achievements and service of these international lawyers and scholars, to honor their memories, and to express our condo-lences to their families, friends, and colleagues.

As in decades past, the Digest continues to refl ect the sustained, collaborative effort of many dedicated members of the Offi ce of the Legal Adviser and assistance from our colleagues across the U.S. government. I want especially to thank Stephen Townley, who reviewed and commented on all of the chapters. Among the many volunteers whose signifi cant contributions to the current volume should be acknowledged are Kevin Baumert, Matthew Burton, Michelle Cannon, Maegan Conklin, Daphne Cook, Winnie Fuentes, Kimberly Gahan, Jennifer Gergen, Sandy Kupchan, Frank Holleran, Rebecca Ingber, Jessica Karbowski, Keith Loken, Elizabeth Miller, Holly Moore, Christine Sanford, Mark Simonoff, Scott Vesel (formerly of the offi ce), and Aaron Zelinsky. I am also grateful for the contributions of our colleagues in other U.S. agencies, particularly the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury’s Offi ce of Foreign Assets Control, and the Offi ce of the U.S. Trade Representative. Once again, I express very special thanks to Joan Sherer, the Department’s Senior Reference Librarian, Legal, for her invaluable technical assistance. Above all, I wish to thank the indefatigable Elizabeth Wilcox for editing this volume and for her efforts to make the Digest more accessible its readers.

We continue to prize our rewarding collaboration with the International Law Institute and Oxford University Press as co-publishers. The Institute’s Director, Professor Don Wallace, and editor William Mays again have our sincere thanks for their superb support and guidance.

Now well into its third century, the United States practice of international law continues to evolve; we hope that this practice will be the subject of continuous global examination, dialogue,

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and debate. It is the very nature of state practice that it is infl uenced by the practices and criticism of other nations and legal publicists. For that reason, comments and suggestions from readers are always most welcome.

Harold Hongju Koh The Legal Adviser

Department of State

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Publication of the Digest of United States Practice in International Law for calendar year 2010, both in print and on the State Department’s website, brings the new Digest series current for the period 1989–2010. I would like to thank my colleagues in the Offi ce of the Legal Adviser and those in other offi ces and departments in the U.S. government who make this cooperative venture possible. I also would like to express appreciation to the International Law Institute and Oxford University Press for their valuable contribu-tions in publishing the Digest .

The 2010 volume follows the general organization and approach adopted in 2000. We rely on the texts of relevant original source documents introduced by relatively brief explanatory commentary to provide context, although in this volume, some of the litigation-related entries do not include excerpts from the opinions themselves since most U.S. federal courts now post their opinions on their websites. In excerpted material, four asterisks are used to indicate deleted paragraphs, and ellipses are used to indicate deleted text within paragraphs.

Entries in each annual Digest pertain to material from the rel-evant year, although some updates (through the end of June 2011) are provided in footnotes. For example, as in other volumes, we note the release of several U.S. Supreme Court decisions; this year’s volume also notes some other decisions of federal courts or inter-national dispute settlement bodies and fi nal rules issued before the end of June 2011, as well as several noteworthy developments. Updates on most other 2011 developments, such as the release of annual reports and sanctions-related designations of individuals or entities under U.S. executive orders are not provided, and as a general matter readers are advised to check for updates. This volume also continues the practice of providing cross references to related entries within the volume and to prior volumes of the Digest .

Note from the Editor

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This year, the headings for chapters 9 and 16 have been modifi ed slightly to correspond more closely to their contents.

As in previous volumes, our goal is to ensure that the full texts of documents excerpted in this volume are available to the reader to the extent possible. For many documents we have provided a specifi c Internet cite in the text. We realize that Internet citations are subject to change, but we have provided the best address available at the time of publication. Where documents are not readily accessible elsewhere, we have placed them on the State Department website, at www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm .

Other documents are available from multiple public sources, both in hard copy and from various online services. The United Nations Offi cial Document System makes UN documents available to the public without charge at http://documents.un.org . Resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council can be retrieved most readily by using the search function on the Human Rights Council’s website, at www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil . Legal texts of the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) may be accessed through the WTO’s website, at www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/legal_e.htm . For UN-related information generally, the UN’s home page at www.un.org also remains a valuable source.

The U.S. Government Printing Offi ce (“GPO”) provides elec-tronic access to government publications, including the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations; the Congressional Record and other congressional documents and reports; the U.S. Code, Public and Private Laws, and Statutes at Large; Public Papers of the President; and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents introduced in January 2009. The Federal Digital System, available at www.gpo.gov/fdsys , is GPO’s new online site for U.S. government materials and has replaced its previous site, www.gpoaccess.gov .

On treaty issues, this site offers Senate Treaty Documents (for the President’s transmittal of treaties to the Senate for advice and consent, with related materials), available at www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=CDOC , and Senate Executive Reports (for the reports on treaties prepared by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations), available at www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/ collection.action?collectionCode=CRPT . In addition, the Offi ce of

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the Legal Adviser now provides a wide range of current treaty infor-mation at www.state.gov/s/l/treaty , and the Library of Congress provides extensive treaty and other legislative resources at http://thomas.loc.gov .

The U.S. government’s offi cial web portal is www.usa.gov , with links to government agencies and other sites; the State Department’s home page is www.state.gov .

While court opinions are most readily available through com-mercial online services and bound volumes, individual federal courts of appeals and many federal district courts now post opinions on their websites. The following list provides the website addresses where federal courts of appeals post opinions and unpublished dis-positions or both:

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: www.cadc.uscourts.gov/bin/opinions/allopinions.asp ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit: www.ca1.uscourts.gov/?content=opinions/main.php ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: www.ca2.uscourts.gov/opinions.htm ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: www.ca3.uscourts.gov/indexsearch/archives.asp ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/opinion.htm ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: www.ca5.uscourts.gov/Opinions.aspx ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit: www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions/opinion.php ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?dname=opinion (opinions) and www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?dname=disp (non-precedential dispositions);

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit: www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opns/opFrame.html ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: www.ca9.uscourts.gov/opinions (opinions) and www.ca9.uscourts.gov/memoranda/ (memoranda and orders—unpublished dispositions);

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• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit: www.ca10.uscourts.gov/clerk/opinions.php ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit: www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/index.php ;

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: www.cafc.uscourts.gov/index.php?option=com_reports&view=report&layout=search&Itemid=12 .

The U.S. Court of International Trade posts all of its opinions and orders of merits and motions panels at www.cit.uscourts.gov/slip_op/slip-op.html . The offi cial U.S. Supreme Court website is main-tained at www.supremecourtus.gov . The Offi ce of the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice makes its briefs fi led in the Supreme Court available at www.usdoj.gov/osg .

Many federal district courts also post their opinions on their websites, and users can access these opinions by subscribing free of charge to the Public Access to Electronic Records (“PACER”) service. Some district courts post all of their opinions or certain notable opinions without requiring users to register for PACER fi rst. For example, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, whose opinions are discussed in this volume and previous editions, posts its opinions on its website at www.dcd.uscourts.gov/dcd . Other links to individual federal court websites are available at www.uscourts.gov/links.html .

Selections of material in this volume were made based on judg-ments as to the signifi cance of the issues, their possible relevance for future situations, and their likely interest to government lawyers, especially our foreign counterparts; scholars and other academics; and private practitioners.

As always, we welcome suggestions from those who use these volumes.

Elizabeth R. Wilcox

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CHAPTER 1

Nationality, Citizenship, and Immigration

A. NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP

On March 22, 2010, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case challenging provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended (“INA”), that prescribe how U.S. citizens can transmit their citi-zenship to their children if their children are born out of wedlock outside the United States. Flores-Villar v. United States, 130 S. Ct. 1878 (2010). The plaintiff claimed that the INA provisions in effect in 1974, when he was born, violated the equal protection component of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment by requiring fathers to be present in the United States for longer than mothers before their out-of-wedlock children born abroad could be eligible for derivative citizenship. On August 26, 2010, the United States fi led its brief in support of affi rmance of the Ninth Circuit’s 2008 decision, United States v. Flores-Villar, 536 F.3d 990 (9th Cir. 2008). Excerpts below from the U.S. brief provide the factual background to the litigation and summarize the government’s key arguments. Citations to the joint appen-dix are omitted. The full text of the U.S. brief is available at www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2010/3mer/2mer/toc3index.html . The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case on November 10, 2010, and its decision was pending at the end of 2010.*

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* * * * * Editor’s note: On June 23, 2011, the Supreme Court affi rmed the Ninth

Circuit’s decision. Flores-Villar v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2312 (2011).

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STATEMENT 1. . . . At the time of petitioner’s birth in 1974, a child born outside the United States to married parents, only one of whom was a U.S. citizen, could acquire citizenship through his or her U.S. citizen parent if, before the child’s birth, the citizen parent had been physically present in the United States for a total of ten years, at least fi ve of which were after the parent had turned fourteen years of age. 8 U.S.C. 1401(a)(7) (1970). 1 The same physical-presence requirement applied if the child was born out of wedlock and the father was a U.S. citizen (and if the paternity was established through legitimation while the child was under age 21). 8 U.S.C. 1409(a) (1970); see Nguyen v. INS , 533 U.S. 53, 59–73 (2001) (discussing current version of Section 1409(a), requiring, inter alia , that paternity be established while the child was under age 18). 2 If, however, the child was born out of wedlock outside the United States and only his mother was a U.S. citizen, Section 1409(c) transmits U.S. citizenship to the child if the mother was a citizen of the United States at the time of the child’s birth and had been physically present in the United States before the child’s birth for a continuous period of at least one year. Id. at 59–60.

2. In 1974, petitioner was born in Tijuana, Mexico, to unmar-ried parents. His mother is a citizen and national of Mexico, and his father, who was 16 years old at the time of petitioner’s birth, is a U.S. citizen who resided in the United States for much of his life.

1 Section 1401 has since been amended, with former Section 1401(a)(7) redesignated as Section 1401(g) and the term of the required physical pres-ence in the United States reduced to a total of fi ve years, two of which must be after the parent turned fourteen. Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1986 (1986 Act), Pub. L. No. 99-653, § 12, 100 Stat. 3657. That amendment does not apply unless the child was born on or after November 14, 1986, however, and thus does not govern petitioner’s citizen-ship claim. See Immigration Technical Corrections Act of 1988, Pub. L. No. 100-525, § 8(r), 102 Stat. 2618. Unless otherwise specifi cally stated, refer-ences herein to Section 1401 or Section 1401(a)(7) are to the 1970 version.

2 Section 1409(a) was amended in 1986 to revise the requirements that must be satisfi ed for a child born abroad out of wedlock to obtain citizenship through a United States citizen father. 1986 Act, Pub. L. No. 99-653, § 13(b), 100 Stat. 3657; Miller v. Albright , 523 U.S. 420, 468 (1998) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting).


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Although petitioner’s father was a U.S. citizen from birth, petitioner’s father did not obtain formal documentation of that fact until May 24, 1999 (almost 25 years after petitioner was born), when he was issued a certifi cate of citizenship upon his own application. Petitioner’s father was confi rmed as a citizen from birth based on the fact that his mother — petitioner’s paternal grandmother — was a U.S. citizen by birth in the United States, and met the requirements of Section 1409(c) to transmit citizenship to her out-of-wedlock child (petitioner’s father) at the time of his birth. It is not clear that petitioner’s father was aware of his U.S. citizenship prior to adulthood.

When petitioner was two months old, his father and paternal grandmother brought him to the United States to receive medical treatment. After petitioner was released from the hospital, he lived with his father and grandmother in the San Diego area, where he grew up. Although petitioner’s father is not listed on his birth certifi cate, in 1985 the father acknowledged petitioner as his son by fi ling an acknowledgment of paternity with the Civil Registry in Mexico.

On March 17, 1997, petitioner was convicted of importation of marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. 952 and 960 (1994), and was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment. After serving his sentence, petitioner was ordered removed from the United States, and he was removed on October 16, 1998. Petitioner repeatedly returned to the United States following removal, resulting in addi-tional removal proceedings in 1999 (when he was twice deported) and again in 2002. In June 2003, following another illegal reentry, petitioner was convicted of two counts of illegal entry into the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1325, and was again removed in October 2003. Petitioner again reentered the United States illegally and was once again removed in March 2005, after which he yet again unlawfully returned to the United States.

3. On February 24, 2006, petitioner was arrested and charged with being a deported alien found in the United States after depor-tation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326(a) and (b). Petitioner sought to defend against the charge by establishing that he had acquired U.S. citizenship at birth through his father. After his indictment, petitioner fi led an application for a certifi cate of citizenship with



the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1452(a). DHS denied petitioner’s application (and his administra-tive appeal) because it was physically impossible for petitioner’s father, who was 16 years old when petitioner was born, to have been present in the United States for fi ve years after his fourteenth birthday, but prior to petitioner’s birth, as required by former Section 1401(a)(7) in order for him to transmit U.S. citizenship to petitioner.

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SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT Pursuant to its authority under Article I of the Constitution,

Congress has enacted comprehensive rules governing immigration and naturalization. One subset of those rules governs the acquisi-tion of citizenship by children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents. When a U.S. citizen has a child abroad with a non-citizen, Congress requires that the U.S. citizen parent have satisfi ed a physical-presence requirement prior to the child’s birth before the parent may trans-mit his or her citizenship to the child as of birth. That requirement applies to married fathers and married mothers — and it applies to unmarried fathers such as petitioner’s. In an effort to reduce the number of children who may be born stateless, Congress has applied a shorter physical-presence requirement to unmarried U.S. citizen mothers who give birth abroad. Such physical-presence requirements on the U.S. citizen parents of children born abroad ensure that foreign-born children will have suffi cient connections to the United States to merit citizenship, and this Court has long upheld Congress’s decision to require such a connection.

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Congress’s choice of rules governing naturalization is entitled to deference by this Court and is subject to review under rational basis standards. But even if heightened review is applied to the equal protection challenge asserted here on behalf of petitioner’s father, the statutory provisions are constitutional. There is no seri-ous dispute that reducing the number of children born stateless is an important government objective. Congress chose to pursue that objective by applying a shorter physical-presence requirement to



unwed U.S. citizen mothers of foreign-born children than to other U.S. citizen parents. That statutory scheme is constitutionally per-missible because it is substantially related to the government’s important interest.

As Congress knew, most countries apply jus sanguinis citizen-ship laws, pursuant to which a child’s citizenship is determined at birth through his blood relationship to a parent rather than with reference to his place of birth. In most of those countries — as indeed in most jus soli countries such as the United States — the only parental relationship that is legally recognized or formalized at birth for a child born out of wedlock is usually that of his mother. Thus, at birth, the child’s only means of taking citizenship is through his mother. Although such a child’s father may subse-quently take actions to establish a legally recognized parental rela-tionship, there is no guarantee that he will ever do so. Because impediments to an unwed mother’s ability to transmit her citizenship to a child at birth create a substantially higher risk that a child will be born stateless, Congress eased the requirements for acquisition of U.S. citizenship by the children of those mothers.

The fact that Congress did not eliminate the possibility that any foreign-born child of a U.S. citizen parent would be stateless, either at birth or at some point later in his life, does not render its chosen framework unconstitutional. No foreign-born person has a free-standing constitutional right to U.S. citizenship, and no U.S. citizen has a free-standing right to transmit his or her citizenship to a foreign-born child. Congress balances competing interests in enacting laws governing naturalization. The carefully measured rules Congress enacted serve the important governmental interest in ensuring that children born abroad have suffi cient ties to this coun-try to merit citizenship and the interest in reducing statelessness — and consequently do not violate equal protection.

Even if this Court were to determine that the differing physical-presence requirements in Sections 1401 and 1409 violated equal protection, petitioner is not entitled to the relief he seeks, namely a reversal of his criminal conviction based on a determination that he has been a citizen from birth. The fact that Congress chose to apply the more stringent physical-presence requirements in Section 1401 to a substantial majority of U.S. citizen parents of foreign-born



children, the need to preserve necessary fl exibility for Congress, as well as adherence to this Court’s longstanding treatment of natu-ralization requirements lead to the conclusion that the proper way to cure any equal protection violation would be to apply the lon-ger physical-presence requirements in Section 1401, on a prospec-tive basis, to unwed citizen mothers. Petitioner’s suggestions that the Court either extend the shorter physical-presence requirement in Section 1409(c) to unmarried fathers (but not to married parents of either gender) or retain the unequal treatment but reduce the length of the physical-presence requirement applicable to unmarried men make little sense and could foreclose future revision by Congress. Equalizing the treatment of all citizen parents of foreign-born children as suggested here would eliminate any equal protection problem and most faithfully preserve Congress’s policy choices.

B. PASSPORTS

Gender Changes

On June 9, 2010, the Department of State announced a new policy and procedures for refl ecting gender changes in U.S. passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad. The Offi ce of the Spokesman explained:

Beginning June 10, when a passport applicant presents a certifi cation from an attending medical physician that the applicant has undergone appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition, the passport will refl ect the new gender. The guidelines include detailed information about what information the certifi cation must include. It is also possible to obtain a limited-validity passport if the physi-cian’s statement shows the applicant is in the process of gender transition. No additional medical records are required. Sexual reassignment surgery is no longer a pre-requisite for passport issuance. A Consular Report of Birth Abroad can also be amended with the new gender.

The full text of the media note is available at www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/06/142922.htm .



C. IMMIGRATION AND VISAS

1. Visa Waiver Program

On March 4, 2010, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued a fi nal rule adding Greece to its list of coun-tries eligible for the Visa Waiver Program (“VWP”). 75 Fed. Reg. 15,991 (Mar. 31, 2010). In general, travelers from VWP member countries may apply for admission to the United States without a visa for up to 90 days for tourism or busi-ness. DHS’s action continued its efforts, together with the Department of State, to expand the VWP to eligible countries and strengthen the program’s security, consistent with § 711 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (“9/11 Act”), Pub. L. No. 110-53, 121 Stat. 266. See Digest 2007 at 32–36 and Digest 2008 at 20–22; see also the DHS press release, available at www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1268162593062.shtm . See Chapter 3.A.7. for a discussion of the information-sharing agreement the United States con-cluded with Greece as a condition for its entry to the VWP.

2. INA Exemptions Resolve First Amendment Challenges to Visa Denials

On January 25, 2010, Secretary of State Clinton exercised her discretionary authority under § 212(d)(3)(B)(i) of the INA, fol-lowing consultations with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, to grant limited exemptions for Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib. Mr. Ramadan and Mr. Habib are Swiss and South African academics who had applied for non-immigrant visas in 2005 and 2007, respec-tively, to travel to the United States for speaking engage-ments. In 2006 and 2007, respectively, Mr. Ramadan and Mr. Habib were denied non-immigrant visas, based on the inadmissibility grounds for terrorism-related activities under § 212(a)(3)(B) of the INA. The organizations that had invited Mr. Ramadan and Mr. Habib to speak in the United States then brought separate lawsuits challenging the visa denials



under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. For discussion of the litigation, see Digest 2006 at 18–29, Digest 2007 at 19–26, and Digest 2009 at 12–14.

The Secretary’s 2010 actions made INA § 212(a)(3)(B)(iv)(VI)(dd) inapplicable to Mr. Ramadan and INA § 212(a)(3)(B) inapplicable to Mr. Habib, with respect to the specifi c activi-ties that had rendered them inadmissible, for purposes of any application for non-immigrant visas and for admission to the United States as non-immigrants, thus establishing that neither Mr. Ramadan nor Mr. Habib would be found inadmissible to the United States on the basis of the facts underlying their previous visa denials.

3. Expulsion of Aliens

On March 26, 2010, the United States submitted written comments to the UN Secretariat, which responded to the International Law Commission’s request for information and observations from states on issues relating to its work on the topic “Expulsion of Aliens.” The ILC included its request for information in chapter III of its report on the work of its sixty-fi rst session, which is available at http://untreaty.org/ilc/reports/2009/2009report.htm (at p. 11). The U.S. comments contained information on U.S. law concerning the expulsion of noncitizens and the conditions and duration of custody of per-sons who are being removed from the United States. It also included information on whether an individual who is removed from the United States unlawfully has a right to return to the United States and the procedures that U.S. offi cials follow in cases involving a noncitizen of the United States who is removed from the United States through a transit country. The U.S. submission is available at www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm .

On October 29, 2010, Mark A. Simonoff, Acting Legal Adviser, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, addressed the UN General Assembly’s Sixth (Legal) Committee on the report of the International Law Commission (“ILC” or “Commission”) on the work of its sixty-second session. The text of the U.S. statement, excerpted below, is available



at http://usun.state.gov/briefi ng/statements/2010/150315.htm . The ILC report is available at http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/reports/2010/2010report.htm .

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The United States would like to express its appreciation for the continued efforts of Special Rapporteur Kamto on the topic of Expulsion of Aliens, including his efforts to revise and restructure the draft articles. The issues addressed by the Special Rapporteur are complicated ones and we encourage the Special Rapporteur and other members of the Commission, as well as other States, to carefully review the revised draft articles concerning the human rights of aliens subject to expulsion.

As our general and specifi c comments today illustrate, our con-cerns that these draft articles could unduly restrain the sovereign rights enjoyed by States to control admission to their territories and to enforce their immigration laws remain acute.

First, we would like to underscore a previously-raised issue regarding methodology and the appropriate sources of interna-tional law. We continue to believe that, rather than attempting to codify new rights specifi c to the expulsion context and importing concepts from regional jurisprudence (e.g., from the European Commission and Court), for example in the case of provisions on family unity, the draft articles instead should refl ect well-settled principles of law refl ected in the texts of broadly ratifi ed global human rights conventions.

Additionally, we continue to believe that extradition should be excluded from the scope of the draft articles; extradition should not be treated in the same manner as expulsion, but as the transfer of an individual — whether it is the transfer of an alien or a national — for a specifi c law enforcement purpose. We are concerned that many of the proposals would not be consistent with the settled practices and obligations of States under multilateral and bilateral extradition treaty regimes. In this regard, we have particular con-cerns regarding the new draft articles concerning disguised expul-sion and extradition disguised as expulsion.



We also have concerns about the various references to language in the reports regarding the rights of persons who have been expelled. . . .

Regarding Draft Article 10, we of course recognize and appreciate the importance of including a non-discrimination principle in these draft articles. At the same time, we think it would be appropriate to make clear that this principle applies only to the process afforded to aliens in expulsion proceedings, and should not be framed in a man-ner that would unduly restrain the discretion enjoyed by States to control admission to their territories and to establish grounds for expulsions of aliens under their immigration laws.

Finally, we also have concerns about the incorporation of non-refoulement obligations into numerous provisions, both indirectly by, as previously noted, extending protections to “persons who have been . . . expelled” in the various provisions, and explicitly in Draft Articles 14 and 15. These provisions rely on non-binding opinions of the Human Rights Committee and jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights to interpret a non-refoulement obligation and a requirement for assurances against the death pen-alty into rights where none is expressly provided in the actual texts of Articles 6 and 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or any other United Nations convention. Moreover, we are concerned about the proposed obligation in Draft Article 14 regarding ensuring respect for “personal liberty” as this term is undefi ned and goes beyond existing obligations regarding non-refoulement assumed by States as parties to global conventions. . . .

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D. ASYLUM AND REFUGEE STATUS AND RELATED ISSUES

On January 21, 2010, following a devastating earthquake off Haiti’s coast, the Secretary of Homeland Security designated Haiti under § 244A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), as amended, 8 U.S.C. § 1254a, thereby providing eligible nationals of Haiti with temporary protected status (“TPS”) in the United States through July 22, 2011. 75 Fed. Reg. 3476 (Jan. 21, 2010). The Federal Register notice announcing the Secretary’s designation explained:



Given the size of the destruction and humanitarian challenges, there clearly exist extraordinary and temporary conditions preventing Haitian nationals from returning to Haiti in safety. Moreover, allowing eligible Haitian nationals to remain temporarily in the United States, as an important complement to the U.S. government’s wider disaster relief and humanitarian aid response underway on the ground in Haiti, would not be contrary to the pub-lic interest.

Id. at 3477. Section 244A authorizes the Secretary of Homeland

Security, after consultation with appropriate agencies, to des-ignate a state (or any part of a state) after fi nding that (1) there is an ongoing armed confl ict within the state (or part thereof) that would pose a serious threat to the safety of nationals returned there; (2) the state has requested designation after an environmental disaster resulting in a substantial, but temporary, disruption of living conditions that renders the state temporarily unable to handle the return of its nationals; or (3) there are other extraordinary and temporary conditions in the state that prevent nationals from returning in safety, unless permitting the aliens to remain temporarily would be contrary to the national interests of the United States. For background on previous designations of states for TPS, see Digest 1989–1990 at 39–40; Cumulative Digest 1991–1999 at 240–47; and Digest 2004 at 31–33.

Cross References

Protection of migrants , Chapter 6.F. Travel-related restrictions , Chapter 16.A.6.c.


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CHAPTER 2

Consular and Judicial Assistance and Related Issues

A. CONSULAR NOTIFICATION, ACCESS, AND ASSISTANCE

1. Department of State Guidance on Consular Notifi cation and Access for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement and Other Offi cials

a. Third edition of manual on consular notifi cation and access

On September 13, 2010, the Department of State announced the publication of the third edition of its manual entitled Consular Notifi cation and Access: Instructions for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement and Other Offi cials Regarding Foreign Nationals in the United States and the Rights of Consular Offi cers to Assist Them (“Consular Notifi cation and Access Manual”). As the foreword to the manual explains, it contains

instruction and guidance relating to the obligations of federal, state, and local government offi cials to provide information to foreign consular offi cers and to permit foreign consular offi cers to assist their nationals in the United States. It focuses on the obligations of consular notifi cation and access that pertain to the arrest and detention of foreign nationals; the appointment of guardians for minor and adult foreign nationals; deaths and serious injuries of foreign nationals; and wrecks or crashes of foreign ships or aircraft on U.S. territory. . . .

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This manual is designed to help ensure that foreign governments can extend appropriate consular services to their nationals in the United States and that the United States complies with its legal obligations to such governments.

The new and substantially expanded manual contains seven main parts: Part 1, Basic Instructions; Part 2, Detailed Instruc-tions on the Treatment of Foreign Nationals; Part 3, Frequently Asked Questions; Part 4, Legal Overview; Part 5, Suggested Statements to Detained Foreign Nationals, Notifi cation Fax Sheets, and Consular Identifi cation Cards; Part 6, Model Standard Operating Procedure; and Part 7, Phone and Fax Numbers for Foreign Embassies and Consulates in the United States.

Excerpts below from Parts 1 and 2 of the manual summarize the consular notifi cation and access requirements pertaining to foreign nationals and provide detailed instructions on the treatment of foreign nationals. The links to the manual and related information are available at http://travel.state.gov/law/consular/consular_753.html .

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PART ONE: BASIC INSTRUCTIONS

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SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS PERTAINING TO FOREIGN NATIONALS

• When foreign nationals from most countries are arrested or detained, they may, upon request, have their consular offi -cers notifi ed without delay of their arrest or detention, and may have their communications to their consular offi cers for-warded without delay. In addition, foreign nationals must be advised of this information without delay.

• For foreign nationals of some countries, consular offi cers must be notifi ed of the arrest or detention of a foreign national even if the foreign national does not request or want notifi cation.


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• Consular offi cers are entitled to communicate with and to have access to their nationals in detention, and to provide consular assistance to them, including arranging for legal representation.

• When a law enforcement or other government offi cial becomes aware of the death, serious injury, or serious illness of a for-eign national, consular offi cers must be notifi ed.

• When a guardianship or trusteeship is being considered with respect to a foreign national who is a minor or an incompe-tent adult, consular offi cers must be notifi ed.

• When a foreign ship wrecks or a foreign aircraft crashes in U.S. territory, consular offi cers must be notifi ed.

These are mutual obligations that also apply to foreign authorities when they arrest or detain U.S. citizens abroad. In general, you should treat a foreign national as you would want a U.S. citizen to be treated in a similar situation in a foreign country. This means prompt and courteous compliance with the above requirements.

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PART TWO: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ON THE TREAT-MENT OF FOREIGN NATIONALS

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The instructions in this manual are based on international legal obligations designed to ensure that governments can assist their nationals who live and travel abroad. While these obligations are in part matters of customary international law, most of them are set forth in the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR), a multilateral treaty to which the United States and more than 170 other countries are party. Other obligations are contained in bilateral agreements (sometimes called “conventions” or “treaties”). These are legally binding agreements between the United States and one other country. Treaties such as the VCCR and other consular conventions are binding on federal, state, and local government offi cials to the extent they pertain to matters within such offi cials’ competence as a matter of international law and the U.S. Constitution. See U.S. Const., art. VI, cl. 2 (“all Treaties made . . . shall be the supreme law of the land”).



These instructions focus primarily on providing consular notifi ca-tion and access with respect to foreign nationals arrested or detained in the United States, so that their governments can assist them. The obligations of consular notifi cation and access apply to U.S. citizens in foreign countries just as they apply to foreign nationals in the United States. When U.S. citizens are arrested or detained abroad, the U.S. Department of State seeks to ensure that they are treated in a manner consistent with these instructions, and that U.S. consular offi cers can similarly assist them. It is therefore particularly important that federal, state, and local government offi cials in the United States comply with these obligations with respect to foreign nationals here.

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