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Frtpages-Winter 2013.Fm NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW Winter 2013 Vol. 26, No. 1 Articles Separation of Powers in Intellectual Property Rights: Balancing Global Intellectual Property Rights or Monopoly Power in the Twenty-First Century by Competition Law Kitsuron Sangsuvan ............................................................................................1 The Responsibility to Preserve: A Road Map for Saving Ecuador’s Yasuni Rain Forest Joshua M. Alter ...................................................................................................53 The Post-Morrison Challenge—The Growing Irrelevance of a Transaction- Based Test in an Interconnected World: An Analysis of the Extraterritorial Application of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the International Comity Implications in the Wake of Morrison Christina M. Corcoran........................................................................................77 Recent Decisions Gordon v. City of New York Police Department, 84th Precinct ......................107 The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York held that under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, denial of a detained foreign national’s request of consulate notification does not provide an individual right to damages. NML Capital, Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina ...................................................115 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an entity falls under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act commercial activity exception when it makes purchases in the market in the same man- ner as a private actor. In re Extradition of Kapoor ........................................................................... 121 The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted a certificate of extraditability for an Indian National accused of fraud, forgery, and conspiracy. Velez v. Sanchez ................................................................................................127 The Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s conversion to and later dismissal of the plaintiff-appel- lant’s claim under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act but remanded her Fair Labor Standards Act claim. ESAB Group, Inc. v. Zurich Insurance PLC ....................................................137 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the McCarran-Ferguson Act’s reverse pre- emption rule did not apply to a South Carolina law invalidating arbitration agreements. Fain v. Islamic Republic of Iran .......................................................................143 The District Court for the District of Columbia held that the defendants waived their sovereign immunity under the state-sponsored terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. 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