JURI 660 Quiz Diplomatic Privileges

JURI 660 Quiz: Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities

1. Which one of the following statements is the best answer, consistent with the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945, regarding the privileges, exemptions, and immunities of international organizations?
2. The appellants in the Brzak v. The United Nations, et al. case at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, raised several constitutional objections to the proposition that the United Nations and its former officials enjoy immunity. Specifically, they contend that such a grant of immunity would violate their procedural due process right to litigate the merits of their case, their substantive due process right to access the courts, their First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances, and their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial on their common law claims.
3. Which of the following statements were considered by Judge Cardamone in his analysis regarding inviolability without exceptions, in the case of 767 Third Avenue Associates v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zaire to the U.N.?
4. According to the United Nations Headquarters Agreement Act of 1947, nothing should be construed as in any way diminishing, abridging, or weakening the right of the United States to safeguard its own security and completely to control the entrance of aliens into any territory of the United States other than the headquarters district and its immediate vicinity.
5. Consistent to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the baggage and effects of alien ocers and employees of international organizations, or of aliens designated by foreign governments to serve as their representatives in or to such organizations, should be admitted (when imported in connection with the arrival of the owner) free of customs duties and free of internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation.
6. What are the international treaties that the United States used to sustain its view in the case of the 767 Third Avenue Associates v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zaire to the U.N. at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit?
7. Consistent with the United Nations Headquarters Agreement, which of the following statements is the best answer?
8. What was Judge Leonard B. Sand’s ruling on the Zaire Mission to the United Nations case?
9. Any dispute between the United Nations and the United States concerning the interpretation or application of the United Nations Headquarters Agreement or of any supplemental agreement should be referred for nal decision to a tribunal of three arbitrators: one to be named by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, one to be named by the Secretary of State of the United States, and the third to be chosen by the two, or if they fail to agree upon a third, then by the President of the International Court of Justice.