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Civil Aeronautics Board v. Island Airlines, Inc. 235 F. Supp. 990
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2017
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- Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of International Law
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- Copyright © American Society of International Law 1965
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1 Excerpted text of opinion; certain footnotes are also omitted and the others renumbered.
2 Shalowitz, Shore and Sea Boundaries, pp. 22et seq. See also testimony of E. T. Tingling, Asst. Legal Adviser in the TJ. S. Dept. of State, U. S. delegate to the 1958, 1960 Geneva Conferences on the Law of the Sea, Tr. pp. 140-146; Report of the International Law Commission to the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1956, Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1956, Vol. II, commentary to the Articles of the Law of the Sea, Part I, Territorial Sea, p. 265.
3 Island argued that straight base lines should run completely around the eastern perimeter of the Hawaiian archipelago from island headland to island headland and on the western perimeter should run straight from Niihau's Kawaihoa Point to Hawaii's Ka Lae, thus including within its boundaries all of the open ocean between “the cord of the bow and the bow itself,” but not even Kamehameha III ever made any such grandiose claim, and a similar type of claim put forth by California was rejected in United States v. California, 332 U. 8. 19, 67 S.Ct. 1658, 91 L.Ed. 1889 (1947)… .
4 “Definition of the high seas, Article 26. ” 1 . The term ‘high seas’ means all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial.sea … or in waters of a State. “2. Waters within the baseline of the territorial sea are considered ‘internal waters.’ “ (Report of the International Law Commission to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Document A/3159, Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1956, Vol. II, p. 259.)
5 United States v. California, 332 U. S. at p. 35, 61 S.Ct. 1658, at p. 1666, 91 L.Ed. 1889.
6 United Nations Secretariat, Memorandum on “Historic Bays” (A/Conf. 13/1, p. 18-20).
7 International Court of Justice, Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents, Fisheries Case, Vol. II, p. 302.
8 Ibid., Vol. III , pp. 461-462.
9 Juridical regime of historic waters, including historic hays” prepared by the Secretariat, United Nations, Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1962, Vol. II, pp. 13-15.
10 Ibid., p. 15.
11 Supra note 7, Vol. I, p. 566; Vol. II, pp. 645-646.
12 Alexander, History of the Later Years of the Hawaiian Monarchy and Revolution of 1893, (1896) pp. 17-19.
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