Articles

E.g., 2026-10
Title Abstract Author Volumesort descending Issue Date Published Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
The Medvid Incident-Senate Subpoena on Soviet Freighter Raises Legal and Political Questions The Senate Agricultural Committee, chaired by Senator Jesse Helms, issued a subpoena on November 8, 1985, directing Soviet sailor Miroslav Medvid to appear before a special panel of Senators or... Jay Rosenthal 1 4 1985-12-01 United States Jurisdiction
Copyright Owners Adopt New Strategy in Fight Against Satellite Signal Piracy in Central America and the Caribbean The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is taking the lead among lobbying groups representing various copyright industries in pushing for increased linkage between satellite signal "piracy"... Jay A. Rosenthal, Esq. 1 2 2016-02-04 Caribbean Piracy
Unitary Tax Developments On July 8, 1985, the Treasury released its draft unitary tax legislation with technical explanation.  New section 6039A would require that a "reporting corporation" file an information return with... Bruce Zagaris 1 1 1985-09-01 Tax Enforcement
Swiss Authorities Drop Criminal Case Against Marc Rich The Swiss Government has decided to dismiss a criminal action against Marc Rich & Company's principals, March Rich and Pincus Green, and the other individuals, accused of violating Swiss law and... Bruce Zagaris 1 1 1985-09-01 Switzerland Economic Espionage
U.S. Begins to Link Tax with Immigration Issues John Arrowsmith, Immigration Judge for the District of Columbia, has begun a policy of requiring all applicants for suspension of deportation and political asylum to present documentary evidence that... Bruce Zagaris 1 3 1985-11-01 United States Immigration
Ex-Yale Teacher Tried as a Nazi Collaborator On November 7, 1985, the trial of Vladimir Sokolov, began in the U.S. District Court in Waterbury, Connecticut, on charges that he willfully concealed his activites as a Nazi collaborator who wrote... Bruce Zagaris 1 3 1985-11-01 United States War Crimes
Meese Speech in Switzerland Outlines U.S. Treaty Progress The Honorable Edwin Meese III., Attorney Gerneral of the United States, spoke before the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, the Swiss Bar Association, and the Swiss Bankers Association on December 5... Doris Weidinger 1 4 1985-12-01 Switzerland International Criminal and Comparative Law
U.S. Offers Rewards for Trans World Airlines Hijackers On October 17, the Justice Department announced that it had charged three men with murder and piracy for the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) jet in June and the shooting death of one of its... Bruce Zagaris 1 2 1985-10-01 United States Counter-terrorism
Final Regulations On Information Returns For Foreign-Owned Corporations, And Information Returns By U.S. Persons Re Foreign Corporations Are Published On July 24, 1985, final regulations were promulgated relating to information returns required of U.S. persons with respect to certain foreign corporations, and information returns required of certain... Bruce Zagaris 1 1 1985-09-01 United States Information Exchange
Netherlands Antilles Examines Future of Offshore Sector On November 15 and 16, 1985, several organizations in the Netherlands Antilles held programs on the future of the financial center of the Netherlands Antilles.  On November 15, 1985, the Vereniging... Bruce Zagaris 1 3 1985-11-01 Netherlands Antilles Offshore Banking
SEC Chief Speaks to Swiss on Insider Trading Gary Lynch, SEC Enforcement Head, visited the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, at the occasion of the second round of discussion between the two countries at the end of August, 1985.  In his... Bruce Zagaris 1 3 1985-11-01 Switzerland Trade Enforcement
Swiss Supreme Court Rules Judicial Assistance Request Requires Sufficient Facts But Does not Require Examination of Laws of Requesting State On November 27, 1985, the highest court of the Swiss Confederation, the Federal Court, ruled that judicial assistance requests must be sufficiently explicit, and its I. Public Law Division denied a... Clemens M. Kochinke 1 4 1985-12-01 Switzerland Compliance
Swiss Criminal Conviction Upheld on Basis of Foreign Order Violative of Swiss Public Order On July 10, 1984, the Swiss Supreme Court upheld a conviction of a Swiss citizen who had violated a California civil order and thereby committed an offense under Swiss criminal law.  Although the... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 1 4 1985-12-01 Switzerland Law Enforcement
Hearing on Revision to U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty On October 22, 1985 a hearing took place regarding the U.S./U.K. Supplementary Extradition Treaty which would revise a 13-year old extradition treaty between two countries.  The leading Irish... Dr. Doris Weidinger 1 2 1985-10-01 United States Extradition
IRS Issues Notices Of Systems Of Records Under The Privacy Act On July 22, 1985, 50 F.R. 29816, the Internal Revenue Service republished all of its systems of records notices, updating the information for the systems of records maintained by the IRS.  Several of... Bruce Zagaris 1 1 1985-09-01 United States Privacy
Argentine Bank Secrecy: New Limitations on Bank Secrecy in Argentina After a parliamentary tug of war over several months, the Senate as the last instance approved a Government bill to severely restrict the bank and securities secrecy.  In the opinion of the... Bruce Zagaris 1 3 1985-11-01 Argentina Bank Secrecy
Denmark Decriminalizes and Makes Deductible Foreign Bribes As a result of a recent case in which Dancre Corp's was allowed a deduction against taxes of approximately $730,000 as a result of bribes it paid in Saudi Arabia, bribes made outside Denmark are... Bruce Zagaris 1 3 1985-11-01 Denmark Bribery
AID Draft Report Calls for $5.5 Million for Carrib. Admins Justice A draft proposal authored by Gerald Zarr, U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), entitled "The Rule of Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean: How Long Can the Machinery of Justice Run on Empty... Bruce Zagaris 1 3 1985-11-01 Caribbean Administration of Justice
Money Laundering Investigation of Rhode Island Institution In early October, the U.S. Attorney's office for Rhode Island subpoenaed records concerning currency transactions at the Columbus National Bank of Rhode Island.  The Rhode Island Hospital Trust... Bruce Zagaris 1 2 1985-10-01 United States Money Laundering
Extraterritorial Application of Laws & Responses Thereto Book Review The book publishes the proceedings of the May 11-12, 1983 International Law Association Conference on Extraterritorial Application of Laws and Response Thereto, which was held in London.  The... Bruce Zagaris 1 4 1985-12-01 International Criminal and Comparative Law

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