STAYS—Continued.
trial court has yet to decide whether to permit publication of transcripts of a sexual assault case's in camera pretrial proceedings and its determination as to relevancy of state rape shield law will significantly change circumstances leading to this stay application, application is denied without prejudice. Associated Press v. District Court for Fifth Judicial Dist. of Colo. (Breyer, J., in chambers), p. 1301.
TAXES. Tax Injunction Act—State tax credit for contributions to school tuition organizations—Establishment of religion.—TIA, 28 U.S.C. § 1341—which forbids federal district courts to "restrain the assessment . . . of any tax under State law where a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State"—does not bar respondents' suit to enjoin on Establishment Clause grounds an Arizona statute providing a tax credit for contributions to nonprofit "school tuition organizations." Hibbs v. Winn, p. 88.
TORTS.
Federal Tort Claims Act—Alien Tort statute.—Respondent—a Mexican citizen abducted from Mexico to stand trial in United States for a federal agent's murder, but later acquitted—may not recover damages from Federal Government for false arrest because FTCA's exception to waiver of sovereign immunity for claims "arising in a foreign country," 28 U.S.C. § 2680(k), bars claims based on injury suffered abroad, regardless of where tortious act or omission occurred; nor may he recover damages from petitioner, one of his abductors, under Alien Tort statute for an alleged violation of law of nations. Sosa v. Alvarez Machain, p. 692.
