The Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) last week revised its rules on the use of blocked funds to pay attorneys’ fees to challenge OFAC’s blocking order. Perhaps the single most odious practice OFAC is its use…
A convoy of buses organized by Pastors for Peace with goods destined for Cuba cleared U.S. Customs at the U.S.-Mexico border despite its cargo and its ultimate destination. The convoy, which originated in Canada and which was carrying 100 tons…
The New-Jersey-based Educational Testing Service recently put up an announcement on its website indicating that it had, at least temporarily, stopped administering the “Test of English as a Foreign Language” (“TOEFL”) in Iran. The United Nations Security Council has passed…
According to this report on the BBC website, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that the United States is preparing new economic sanctions against North Korea. The new sanctions are clearly a response to a report blaming North Korea…
Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) adopted, with a few minor revisions, a rule that it had proposed in August 2009 imposing new controls on execution equipment, torture devices, law enforcement restraint devices and law enforcement striking…