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WTO nixes “dolphin-safe” labels on U.S. tuna

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Global, Mexico, USA
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  • September 16 2011

Concluding that “dolphin-safe” tuna product labels authorized by the U.S. Commerce Department “are more trade-restrictive than necessary to achieve a legitimate objective,” a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel has given a partial victory to Mexico, which filed a complaint in 2009 claiming that the labels were illegal because they excluded Mexican yellowfin tuna from the U.S. market and shut down one-third of its tuna fleet

Mexican Court declines jurisdiction in defective eye-surgery product suit; dispute back in U.S. courts

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Mexico, USA
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  • April 14 2011

After a Mexican court refused to exercise jurisdiction over personal injury claims involving an allegedly defective product used in eye surgery conducted in a Mexican clinic, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded the claims of elderly Mexican residents to a U