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 case was closely watched as a barometer of the ongoing debate over the role of international law and courts in Supreme Court jurisprudence. Dissenting justices, led by Justice Stephen Breyer, said the ruling represented an "unprecedented" repudiation of a valid treaty.
June 29, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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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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