Here We Go Again
The Chi Mak case has engendered its fair share of confusion, and the latest victim is a trade law attorney who submitted a brief article to an export law newsletter that was published today. According to that article, the verdict…
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Sure Looks Like a Red Flag to Me!
For all the time that we export lawyers spend trying to inculcate into our clients the concept of export red flags, it’s heartening to see that pay off. And it certainly did payoff in the case of two Chinese citizens…
Acquitted Export Defendant Wins Game of Hyde and Seek
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,…
Federal Court Rejects Claim that the USML Is Unconstitutionally Vague
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…
Praise the Guidelines, and Don’t Pass the Ammo
The Second Circuit issued an opinion on March 19 interpreting the sentencing guidelines applicable to violations of the Arms Export Control Act. That case, United States v. Sero, involved an appeal by a defendant that had entered a guilty plea…