United States Court for Berlin
The United States Court for Berlin was a United States Article II court that had extraterritorial jurisdiction over American-occupied Berlin. It was in existence from 1955 until the Treaty on the Final Settlement in 1990, but was only constituted once in 1979 to hear the jury trial of the LOT Flight 165 hijacking defendants.[1]
The United States High Commissioner for Germany was created by Executive Order 10062 of 6 June 1949 pursuant to the Foreign Service Act of 1946,[2] and abolished by the Allied High Commission on 5 May 1955 pursuant to the Bonn–Paris conventions (the Bonn conventions did not provide for the termination of the occupation in Berlin, however). On 28 April 1955, only a few days before the occupation regime terminated in the rest of Germany, the High Commissioner promulgated Law No. 46[3] establishing the United States Court for Berlin.[4]
References
- ↑ written up later in 1984 in Judgment in Berlin
- ↑ "Executive Order 10062". Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. June 6, 1949.
- ↑ Official gazette of the Allied Kommandatura Berlin, pp. 1056/1057/1058 (1955), amended pp. 1220/1221 (1978)
- ↑ noted in United States, as the United States Element, Allied Kommandatura, Berlin, v. Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske, 86 F.R.D. 227 (United States Court of Berlin 1979).
