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No dissent?[edit]

This article flagrantly violates NPOV by completely ignoring the views of the three dissenting Judges. In particular, one Judge wrote a dissent in excess of 260 pages, or twice the size of the majority opinion. None of this is mentioned at all. This is completely at odds with how other court cases are covered in Wikipedia, which almost always contain the views of both the majority and the dissent. CJK (talk) 22:47, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I don't agree that, regarding the length of the dissenting opinions as opposed to the length of the majority opinion, size matters. Terry Thorgaard (talk) 21:02, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The court seems to have been uninterested in the large number of Cuba / Soviet advisors throughout Nicaragua that supported the FSLN murder and kidnapping campaigns during the latter part of the 1970's.71.243.209.181 (talk) 19:39, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how "the large number of Cuba / Soviet advisors throughout Nicaragua" that you claim existed before the Sandinistas came to power has anything to do with a complaint lodged against the US by the Sandinista government in the mid-80s. Perhaps you should blame Somoza for not having filed a complaint in the ICJ against the USSR and Cuba in that case. --Ismail (talk) 13:55, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand I sit here in the US knowing very little of the specifics. I find the significance of the article more or less an example of the reality that a court without power to enforce its rulings is a fiction. It has been more than 30 years since and the idea of the international court is repugnant to our thinking. 104.220.91.194 (talk) 03:22, 3 September 2019 (UTC)JH[reply]

economist article[edit]

America and international law

Why the sheriff should follow the law

May 23rd 2014, 21:45 by M.S.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/05/america-and-international-law

... Paul Reichler, a partner at the law firm Foley Hoag, a pre-eminent international-law firm. ...Mr Reichler is well placed to weigh in, as he also served as counsel for Nicaragua in a famous case against America in the mid-1980s when the superpower simply waved off an ICJ decision.

"Decisions, judgments and awards by international courts and tribunals are complied with in more than 95% of the cases, including by big powers such as the United States," Mr Reichler wrote back. In Nicaragua the US, he noted, had in fact complied with the court's order to stop mining Nicaragua's harbours, and while it had not officially complied with the order on reparations, the judgment helped prod Congress to cut off funding for the Contras. Furthermore, "the US has appeared in more ICJ cases than any other state. In all but two, it has fully complied with the ICJ's rulings, even when it has lost." (The other case in which America failed to comply was an ICJ ruling blocking the execution of a Mexican national in Texas; America's federal government accepted the ruling, but the state government of Texas ignored it.)

Wholesomegood (talk) 00:55, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]