A California man has been indicted in connection with his attempt to export radiation hardened, space qualified chips to the People’s Republic of China without an export license. The indictment, if true, tells an interesting tale. According to the indictment,…
Rudolf Cheung, who is the head of the Research & Development department of Microwave Engineering Corporation in North Andover, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on January 20, 2012, to charges that he violated the Arms Export Control Act in connection with unlicensed…
In a post back in December titled “Imaginary Numbers,” I noted that the list of commodity jurisdiction determinations by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls had some puzzling entries: Three entries on the list, two for a high mobility electron…
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…
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…