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12 Apr

...a prima facie showing of a fraud that satisfies the first element of the showing necessary to apply the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege”).” DECLARATION, Case 1:11-cv-00691-LAK, Document 400, Filed 03/02/12, pages 1-2 (footnotes not included) See also Chevron v. Donziger, 768 F. Supp. 2d 581, 636 (S.D.N.Y. 2011), rev’d on other grounds, 303 F.3d 470 (2d Cir. 2012)(footnotes not included)(emphasis supplied) “Chevron thus is likely to prevail on its contention that the Ecuadorian judgment in this case "was rendered under a system which does not provide impartial tribunals...
12.04.12 | |

03 Jul

...bad day as I am struggling to work on my IRS Return 2012. This has now lasted several months, I had extended it for October 15th because I had to do my country of residence first. I am coming to the conclusion that if I remain a dual citizen paying taxes to two countries I will not be able to afford it. Paying Social Security Self Employment Taxes to the two countries will take a chunk of what I earned, Paying US taxes in my pension from my country of...
03.07.13 | |

24 Apr

Charlie Savage’s odd article in yesterday’s New York Times prompted another exchange in the ongoing conversation about whether the Obama Administration’s assertions of executive power can be meaningfully distinguished from those of George W. Bush. Savage’s article is headlined in such a way, and otherwise seems to suggest that Obama’s recent reliance on executive orders to accomplish various policy changes (in, for example environmental regulation) is analogous to the Bush Administration’s claims that it could exercise executive power to change various policies and laws in the counterterrorism realm....
24.04.12 | |

13 Nov

...Libertad is a warship and the flagship of the Argentine Navy. It alleges that, at the time of its detention, the frigate ARA Libertad was on an official visit to Ghana and that the Government of Argentina and the Government of Ghana had agreed upon the vessel’s arrival at the Port of Tema on 1 October 2012" Thus, even if the waiver applies, which it does not (I have read the brief from the judge of Ghana and it is far from correct on this point as it cites ramdon...
13.11.12 | |

11 Apr

The bankruptcy of the U.S. military-commissions system is currently on full display in the trial of Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri. Readers who can stomach the spectacle of a tortured detainee being prosecuted for imaginary war crimes committed at a time when there was no armed conflict between the U.S. and al-Qaeda anywhere in the world can find excellent coverage of the pre-trial motions at Lawfare....
11.04.12 | |

04 Jan

...who is living long term overseas and has been keeping the US passport "just in case" or perhaps out of fear of renouncing before, is going to change their mind in 2012. I hope they staff up the embassies to deal with the tidal wave of expatriation requests that is going to hit them. Victoria I have to concur with jen. I am a long-term EU resident (on my third 10-year French residency permit) married to an EU citizen. Until last year I owed nothing (my 1040's are mostly zeros)....
04.01.12 | |

12 Feb

...is discussed at length in my article here. Roger Alford Roger Alford I should add that Ecuador may be discounting this risk in light of Argentina's recalcitrant behavior in not recognizing and enforcing adverse investment arbitration awards. Certainly Correa has indicated that he has no intention of paying the already outstanding $1.77 billion award Occidental won against Ecuador in 2012. But Argentina's strategy may change. Obama removed Argentina's GSP benefits in March 2012 for not honoring its arbitration obligations. The U.S. is likely to do the same for Ecuador with...
12.02.13 | |

22 Jan

...preceded the establishment of the Philippines as a sovereing entity appear on the face of it to delimit national territory to areas lying East of 118 degrees longditude. That does not make these contested areas Chinese, but it will be hard to argue that they are an integral part of the Philippines either During the 2012 standoff over the Scarborough Shoal the Philippines' DFA went to great lengths to publish on its website the legal basis for its assertion of sovereignty, making explicitly clear that this was not based on...
22.01.13 | |

03 Dec

...flaws of the first treaty (which expires at end of 2012). To quote again from a well-written recent Los Angeles Times article on the topic: "The negotiations for the next phase of the accord have the advantage of taking place when public and scientific opinions have swung behind taking aggressive steps to stabilize global warming. To be effective, Kyoto II will have to directly address the failures of the past. It will have to include the United States and force developing nations to rein in their polluting, experts said." NewStream...
03.12.07 | |

27 Feb

...fleshed out. US v. Dire, 680 F.3d 446, 463 (4th Cir. 2012). In Dire, the 4th Circuit discussed extensively In re Piracy Jure Gentium, [1934] A.C. 586, where the Privy Council held that robbery is not an essential element of piracy. Along the way, the Privy Council cited approvingly language from other European sources stating that "private ends" required for piracy does not necessarily mean for "private gain," but could include sailing for "vengeance or for anarchistic or other ends." The 4th Circuit analyzed and essentially followed Piracy Jure Gentium,...
27.02.13 | |

04 May

...the US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights of 2012: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2012humanrightsreport/index.htm?dynamic_load_id=204365&year=2012#wrapper I quote from the Report "Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCI-Palestine) and Breaking the Silence claimed Israeli security services continued to abuse, and in some cases torture, minors who frequently were arrested on suspicion of stone throwing, to coerce confessions." I doubt that the US State Department would quote a completely untrustworthy source as an indicator of Israeli human rights abuses. But anyway, Amos Harel, probably the most respected military analyst journalist in Israel (respected by both Left and...
04.05.15 | |

27 Apr

...the judges looking to regulation 55. However, without a greater and more flexible pool of available judges, the Presidency is not left with a lot of options. Alexander I'll answer directly to David K, because he is the last in the comments queue. Judge Van den Wyngaert had already complained very convincingly and very bitterly about workloads in general in her winter 2012 article "VICTIMS BEFORE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS: SOME VIEWS AND CONCERNS OF AN ICC TRIAL JUDGE" (Case Western Law Review), so her application to be excused from 8th...
27.04.13 | |