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Luna Interplanetary Court

Luna Interplanetary Court — judicial body seated at Guanghan, Luna. Hears interplanetary commercial and civil disputes. In August 2122, Chief Justice Zainab Bello (Ceres bench, sitting by rotation) issued the court’s ruling in Roscosmos v. Novaya Zarya Propulsion Cooperative (LIC-2119-0447), establishing an essential-facilities standard that ended the sixty-year Kuzmin Drive manufacturing monopoly and ordering Roscosmos to establish a fair, non-discriminatory licensing framework within eighteen months. As of March 2167, the court also holds Nova Biosciences’ 2155 suit against Dome 4 over the chiral nanobot cryosleep architecture, pending — litigation that, per The Peer Review, has kept the cascade’s reliability question in front of the court and out of the engineering review.

The 2179 Haddad et al. paper on mirror-fold encephalopathy cited the still-pending proceeding as having kept the reliability question for chiral delivery architectures “in litigation and out of engineering review for the whole of the incubation period” — and noted that the proceeding’s reliability record includes chiral clearance failures from the same years as the seven earliest archived MFE positives, with the question of whether any failure entered in that record was a case of MFE left unexamined: “The authors had no access to the case file.” The paper’s liability discussion also notes that with the 2130 mirror-chirality patent released, there is no owner to pursue.

In May 2190 the court received the Petrescu petition (LIC-2190-0311), a challenge to an OCA disposition order in a synthetic-person case. The petition asks the court to determine the platform’s status before the OCA disposes of it, and cites the court’s own unresolved 2154 Article 5 motion in UNSF v. Patel (LIC-2152-0317) as the precedent it must not repeat. On 20 May 2190 the Authority’s Court of First Instance at Pobeda assumed jurisdiction over the platform’s status; the Luna docket is held in abeyance.

The 2195 Citizen’s Guide records the platform case as still pending in 2195, with this Court retaining the Charter question and the Authority’s Court of First Instance at Pobeda hearing the custody question. The two courts have not settled which decides what; the Guide calls the second case the test.

In September 2191 the court’s longest-running commercial proceeding ended without a judgment: Nova Biosciences and Dome 4 withdrew the 2155 suit and signed a cross-license for the mirror-fold treatment, Dome 4’s MFB-1 binder delivered on Nova’s TIGR-Tas chassis, with no cash changing hands. The withdrawal came the same week the General Assembly adopted A/RES/247/12.

On 21 December 2199 the court granted the OETG’s application for a warrant against the Ark, authorizing the Office to board the vessel, inspect its core, and search Argus Extraction Defense’s Pallas facilities for biological material and cognitive-architecture records. It was the first warrant the Office had sought against a vessel rather than a facility. The Ark had cleared the Pallas control volume on 19 December, two days before the hearing; the warrant was granted in the vessel’s absence and was unenforceable.

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