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On September 26, 2008, Senator Russ Feingold (D. – Wis) and Senator Maria Cantwell (D. – Wash) introduced the Traveller’s Privacy Protection Act of 2008 to place limits on laptop searches at the U.S. border.  I have...

It was pointed out yesterday by Simon Lester on the International Economic Law and Policy Blog that the U.S. Bailout legislation contains the following add-on for for Hollywood:

Sec 502. Provisions related to film and...

On July 28, 2008, the Munich Court handed  Reinhardt Siekaczek, a senior official at Siemens, a suspended jail sentence after convicting him of 49 counts of being a party to misappropriation of corporate funds.  He was...

One of this issues for Canadian companies doing business in Asia is the degree to which Canadian firms can trust foreign judicial systems.  This article refers to a report written by Political and Economic Risk Consultancy...

On August 26, 2008, Diane Francis of Canada's Financial Post wrote a great article "Investing in Russia?  Plan to Lose"  that should raise alarm bells for those investing in Russia.  The posting may be found at...

Customs Update: Big issues roil traders

July 2, 2008

By Susan Kohn Ross / The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINE©

International traders have for the most part been insulated from a lot of the issues roiling "big...

Relying on the authority of the 1950 Defense Production Act, the Dept. of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has been asked by the Naval Air Command to assess the scope and impact of counterfeit electronics on U.S. supply...

An anti-trust class-action lawsuit has been filed against carriers in the Puerto Rico trade and is in addition to a Justice Dept. on-going investigation. The lawsuit was filed naming Century Packing Corp. as the plaintiff. ...

There are currently three international anti-trust investigations pending involving the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Information about the first was made public when several international airlines settled price fixing claim in the...

It takes two to tango, but three to make a crowd and a crowd it has now become. First, it was British Airways PLC and Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd., which each agreed to pay $300 million in criminal fines as the result of pleading...

Law enforcement authorities in the U.S., EU, Switzerland and Canada are apparently coordinating their efforts, at least as it comes to execution of search warrants as the air freight price fixing investigation continues. The...

From American Shipper's September 21, 2007 On-Line Edition

     A story coming out of India this week perfectly encapsulated the two major hurdles the South Asian nation’s fragile but explosively growing...