Campo de Sueños
The Twin State Peregrines, a little league baseball team from Vermont and New Hampshire, is currently playing ball in Cuba with Cuban teams their own age, the first little league tour of Cuba by an American team since 2000 and…
Category OFAC
Who You Gonna Call, Listbusters?
As previously reported on this blog, Syriatel, Syria’s largest provider of mobile phone service, was recently put on the Specially Designated Nationals (“SDN”) List by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). As a result, U.S. citizens are prohibited from…
Who Needs Attorneys Anyway?
Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a document with the catchy title “Guidance on the Release of Limited Amounts of Blocked Funds for Payment of Legal Fees and Costs Incurred in Challenging the Blocking of U.S.…
Give Pearls Away and Rubies
Today the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added three Burmese entities to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, i.e., the SDN List. Among the three entities was the Myanmar Gem Enterprise, the state-owned monopoly that is in…
The Sweet Power of Music
The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog had an interesting post last Friday regarding Iranian santurs (a dulcimer-like instrument) that a UCLA professor of ethnomusicology had been importing from Tehran. These instruments had been sailing through customs until last August when…