The saga of the government’s ill-fated prosecution of Alex Latifi and his company Axion Corporation continues. The federal district court judge delivered yet another forceful gavel whack to the hands of the prosecutors and awarded the acquitted defendants legal fees,…
This post is only peripherally related to export law, but it does involve Iran, blocked assets, terrorism, Persian antiquities and a fascinating conundrum of statutory construction. So bear with me, you won’t be sorry. The conundrum is posed by the…
ABOVE: Strait of Hormuz Some excellent reporting by Eric Lipton in an article in today’s New York Times suggests that the UAE is mostly giving lip service to export control. Yousef al-Otaiba, an adviser to the crown prince of the…
ABOVE: Endevco 7270A-200K accelerometer We’ve posted here previously about the indictment of Qing Li for allegedly attempting to export Endevco 7270A-200K accelerometers without a license to China. That case is proceeding to trial, and the trial court rejected* Qing Li’s…
Of course, you didn’t expect that this blog would let a story about an arms company run by a 22-year-old kid and a 25-year-old “professional masseur” escape without comment, did you? The story, which the New York Times broke on…