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| | Advocating the Elimination of Gender-Based Discrimination, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
 | | The U.S. Supreme Court, early on, expressed a complementary view: The judicial power of the United States, the Court said in 1816, includes cases "in the correct adjudication of which foreign nations are deeply interested. |
 | | The Court noted that "within the world community, the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by mentally retarded offenders is overwhelmingly disapproved." (South Africa, of course, figures prominently in the worldwide disapproval, the Constitutional Court having held a decade ago that capital punishment in any case is unconstitutional.) |
 | | The impact of that legislation on Hamdan's petition, and on scores of filings in the federal district court in the District of Columbia, remains uncertain. |
| www.supremecourtus.gov /publicinfo/speeches/sp_02-07b-06.html (3704 words) |
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