In 1999 Germany filed a case with the International...

In 1999 Germany filed a case with the International Court of Justice against the United States for violating the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 by not informing its consular officials of the arrest and murder convictions of two German-born brothers. Walter and Karl LaGrand were executed in 1999 for the murder of a bank manager in a bungled 1982 robbery.
On June 27, 2001, in its first ruling of the kind, the World Court faulted the United States for violating the LaGrands' rights. The United States did not deny that it had breached the Vienna Convention. It vowed to improve compliance and apologised over the LaGrand case.