Twenty IED Jammers in a Jam
Law students always chuckle at forfeiture cases because they have the best names, such as United States v. 3,462 Cans of Tuna Fish or the like. It always seemed so unfair to those cans of tuna to have the entire…
Clif Burns
Understanding the Law You Enforce and Other Minor Details
Apparently it is not a job requirement at Immigration and Customs Enforcement to have to understand the laws that you are charged with enforcing, as this recent press release from ICE illustrates all too well. The press release announces the…
FedEx Agrees To Pay $370,000 Export Penalty
Federal Express has agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) a penalty of $370,000 in connection with charges that it aided and abetted one export and five attempted exports between 2004 and 2006 without required export…
We’re Not Done Yet
Another problem with the arms brokering regulations proposed by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) is their jurisdictional scope, which is impossibly vague and far exceeds the scope of permissible regulation under the Brokering Amendment which was passed by…
How The OFAC Stole Christmas
A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…