Mice were kept under standard conditions, and their use followed the European Community Guidelines of accepted principles for the use of experimental animals.
Iraqi leaders and United Nations officials say that under generally accepted principles of international law, the new Iraqi government will not be bound by any of the laws passed during the American occupation.
552, 86 L.Ed. 796, provides an ascertainable standard for adjudicating the validity of some foreign acts, and courts are competent to apply this body of law, notwithstanding that there may be some cases where comity dictates giving effect to the foreign act because it is not clearly condemned under generally accepted principles of international law.
The experimental procedures relating to the animals were authorized by Universiti Sains Malaysia Ethical committee (USM/ PPSF50 003 JLD2) before starting the study and were conducted under the internationally accepted principles for laboratory animal use and care.
U.S. healthcare has no generally accepted principles.
The study was conducted according to generally accepted principles.
Similarly, privacy is a widely accepted principle.
"No matter how their responsibilities are carved up, under accepted auditing standards and principles, both Deloitte and Grant Thornton, in their international as well as local domestic capacities, are legally responsible for Parmalat's enormous losses, currently estimated at over $10 billion," the lawsuit states.
"You can go to a client and say, 'It may be acceptable under generally accepted accounting principles, but you want the rating agencies to have a favorable view' " of the accounting, Mr. Nusbaum said.
Although the transactions concerned came under British law, they were reported under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.
All this was perfectly legal under generally accepted accounting principles, 3Com said at the time.
