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NAFTA

NAFTA Tribunals Stir U.S. Worries
18-Apr-04
NAFTA

NY Times: "After the highest court in Massachusetts ruled against a Canadian real estate company and after the United State Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal, the company's day in court was over. Or so thought Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Massachusetts court, until she learned of yet another layer of judicial review, by an international tribunal... Any Canadian or Mexican business that contends it has been treated unjustly by the American judicial system can file a claim...Under the Nafta agreement the government whose court system is challenged is responsible for awards by the tribunals. 'This is the biggest threat to United States judicial independence that no one has heard of and even fewer people understand,' said John D. Echeverria, a law professor at Georgetown University."

 


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