State Of Washington, V. Troy C. Restvedt

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• finding that customary international law and the international agreements mentioned in the Complaint at bar do not create any legal obligations binding as a matter of law
• noting that treaties are considered domestic law when Congress has either enacted implementing statutes or, like here, “the treaty itself conveys an intention that it be ‘self executing’ and is ratified on these terms.”
• observing that a declaratory judgment “is a procedural device that provides a new, noncoercive remedy . . . in cases involving an actual controversy that has not reached the stage at which either party may seek a coercive remedy” (quotation marks omitted)

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