A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that states need not adopt any special procedures or remedies to enforce an international treaty that governs local police treatment of foreign nationals when arrested.
The 1963 treaty, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, requires that police inform foreign arrestees that they have the right to contact their home country’s consulate. And if the arrestee requests it, the police must inform the consulate of the detention.
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