The real problem is the extraterritorial demands of the IRS.
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Thank heavens the law does not have an extraterritorial application.
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"Two, there's an extraterritorial aspect to her case," he continued.
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The law's extraterritorial reach ensures that corporations can't weasel their way out.
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However, such extraterritorial rules are fraught with complexity, legal and privacy experts warn.
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"The dramatic expansion of the FBI's extraterritorial reach raises serious questions," Kim continued.
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If we lost a major extraterritorial case, there might never be another chance.
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If it does not, its escalating use of extraterritorial legal actions will ultimately backfire.
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Such extraterritorial reach by American regulators (and courts) is a feature of international business.
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It exists in its own extraterritorial jurisdiction, like the headquarters of the United Nations.
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And GDPR's extraterritorial reach and weighty public profile looks to be further whetting political appetites.
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The Europeans are making efforts to get round America's extraterritorial reach over sanctions on Iran.
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America's economic and financial heft facilitates the extraterritorial reach of U.S. sanctions and other law.
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Of these, fewer than half a dozen are in a position to pursue extraterritorial cases.
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The international body has special extraterritorial status, which could make it exempt from the prohibition.
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If South Dakota were to win this case, extraterritorial taxation would be allowed by states.
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The new development is that Europeans have moved to block the extraterritorial reach of American legislation.
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Because the data was located in Ireland, Microsoft challenged the warrant as having no extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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Instead, the majority said there was a general presumption against the extraterritorial application of American law.
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Hence what could be called the practice of "extraterritorial" investigations — a longstanding feature of Chinese journalism.
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That path is to pursue the matter before national courts on the grounds of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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Further, the EU increasingly views extraterritorial sanctions as a threat to its own identity and independence.
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An agreement that ignores Iran's extraterritorial incursions, chemical weapons and terrorism isn't an agreement; it's capitulation.
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They're not living in this extraterritorial existence in which the normal functions of government don't apply.
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But as the full extent of extraterritorial legal activity has become clearer, so have three glaring problems.
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But now some democracies are passing extraterritorial laws that seek to regulate online content wherever it appears.
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Because of its sweeping extraterritorial provisions, it applies to any company that does meaningful business with Europeans.
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Although these squads are charged with enforcing US extraterritorial laws, they do not have unilateral authority abroad.
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China is among the countries least likely to submit to American extraterritorial interference in its trading arrangements.
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"They can do extraterritorial work for Russia but not have it attributable directly to the Kremlin," he said.
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With its extraterritorial scope, GDPR was always intended to stamp Europe's rule-making prowess on the global map.
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National Australia Bank, which limited the extraterritorial reach of U.S. securities laws, the SEC couldn't hold him liable.
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"Of course the statute authorizes extraterritorial cases under the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws," Becker said.
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It is also increasingly dismissive of international norms and "Western" ideas, and more assertive in its extraterritorial reach.
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It does not alter the treaty itself, or affect the extraterritorial protections granted to active-duty military personnel.
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The Supreme Court took up the issue of whether RICO applies to extraterritorial violations in RJR Nabisco v.
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The new American sanctions on 28 ships registered to China and several other counties are of course extraterritorial.
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America's tough extraterritorial rules on foreign corrupt practices remain firmly in place when it comes to corporate executives.
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" "The tightening of the US blockade against Cuba and its extraterritorial implementation is and the sovereignty of all States.
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If allowed, Microsoft says, such extraterritorial data grabs would make it difficult to resist orders from non-democratic governments.
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The deal took just two weeks to negotiate: Lenin insisted that the train should be designated an extraterritorial entity.
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China's covert extraterritorial activity suggests that foreign governments are right to be cautious about deepening ties in law-enforcement.
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OVER THE past decade, American legal and regulatory authorities have subjected scores of large foreign companies to extraterritorial actions.
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Soleimani leads the Quds Force, a subunit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for Iran's extraterritorial operations.
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The diplomatic row over Huawei, a Chinese telecoms-equipment firm, centres on the legitimacy of America's extraterritorial reach (see article).
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This unique structure makes RICO the rare statute that clearly evidences extraterritorial effect despite lacking an express statement of extraterritoriality.
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European officials say they are also troubled by the ready use by Washington of extraterritorial sanctions that affect European countries.
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FATCA, enacted by Democrats in 2010, is an indiscriminate information dragnet requiring — under threat of extraterritorial sanctions — all non-U.
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Another, perhaps even more powerful and dangerous shock, will come from Washington's pervasive use of unilateral and extraterritorial trade sanctions.
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Tax-rule changes in the U.S. impact Americans living outside the country because the U.S. has an unusual "extraterritorial" tax system.
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Canada, Spain, France and other U.S. allies oppose the provision and U.S. courts have questioned the legality of its extraterritorial overreach.
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"Legal measures against extraterritorial sanctions are extremely limited," says Gabriel Felbermayr, a trade expert with Munich's ifo Institute for Economic Research.
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China's foreign ministry said they were "irresponsible" claims made by an "extraterritorial country" that had repeatedly tried to destabilise the region.
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As such, Soleimani became the linchpin and architect of Iran's extraterritorial activities, from Thailand to Venezuela, and from Bulgaria to Palestine.
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The extraterritorial impact of the highly detailed regulations demanded by these two huge economies will certainly be a factor in motivating Congress.
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It is therefore a long-term plan that will protect European companies in the future from the effect of illegal extraterritorial sanctions.
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"It's an extraterritorial reach into global supply chains that were never part of the U.S. tax base," OFII President Nancy McLernon said.
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"We have serious questions about whether or not this case belongs in U.S. court precisely because it is extraterritorial, potentially," he said.
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The rule is also highly extraterritorial, affecting banks' businesses outside the United States and in some cases the overseas businesses of foreign banks.
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U.S law allows the President to double taxes on citizens and companies from countries which apply "discriminatory or extraterritorial taxes" on U.S. firms.
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"For several years, we have underlined to the United States the difficulties that extraterritorial legislation spark," a French foreign ministry spokesman told reporters.
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By structuring the financing through vehicles without any U.S. link, Bpifrance thought it was possible to avoid the extraterritorial reach of U.S. legislation.
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China's economic and diplomatic clout has meant that few countries are willing or able to do much to challenge its extraterritorial legal maneuvers.
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Establishing an extraterritorial deterrent would require crippling punishments for firms that violated IP, such as banning them from using the dollar-based banking system.
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He believes the courts had no choice but to reject the extraterritorial reach of secrecy, and ordered costs as "revenge" for him causing trouble.
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The European Union and Canada have reacted angrily to the Title III change, calling its extraterritorial reach "contrary to international law" and threatening reprisals.
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"I have no doubt that these extraterritorial sanctions from U.S. against Iran will have an impact on (foreign) investment in Iran," Zanganeh told reporters.
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The Justice Department's primary concern was carving out criminal cases involving foreign conduct from the court's recent push to limit extraterritorial application of laws.
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This campaign to block internet-inspired extraterritorial taxation — taxation of income earned outside of a jurisdiction — is strongly supported by the American business community.
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she is "opposed to extraterritorial sanctions" against the project and Russia said it could complete the pipeline alone.
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To speak of artistic coefficients, Wright suggests, is to distinguish between extraterritorial conceptualizations of art that, in practice, bleed into other fields and areas.
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The meeting will assess what can be done to keep the deal and circumvent extraterritorial American sanctions that are impacting foreign business appetite for Iran.
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It plans to replace America's extraterritorial approach, whereby foreign profits are subject to American taxes when they are repatriated, with a more sensible territorial one.
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Life Technologies argued that the Federal Circuit's decision "dangerously expands the extraterritorial reach of U.S. patent law" and could hurt domestic manufacturers and parts suppliers.
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In 1912, when Nathan Handwerker, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, arrived in New York, Coney Island already existed as a kind of extraterritorial pleasure zone.
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At the same time, the presumption of European unity is being severely tested by the extraterritorial impact of President Donald Trump's unilateral sanctions on Iran.
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" He said his client's prosecution was "an unprecedented and deeply flawed attempt by our government to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction that cannot be permitted to stand.
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ICPA will modernize the outdated ECPA by establishing a legal framework for accessing extraterritorial communications, all while ensuring that the Fourth Amendment is adequately protected.
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The major beneficiaries of this policy would be Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its extraterritorial special operations unit, the Quds Force (IRGC-QF).
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And it liquidated a destabilizing figure: The general was the commander of the Quds Force, which is responsible for Iran's covert and extraterritorial military operations.
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Nonetheless, U.S. law enforcement agencies increasingly want to get their hands on this extraterritorial data as part of their efforts to fight crime and terrorism.
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The antidoping agency doesn't like the bill, fearing that it would give the United States too much extraterritorial power, and has been lobbying against it.
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Third, and admittedly, this is coming from a criminal defense attorney, the United States' extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction is steadily expanding over persons and acts committed abroad.
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The meeting will assess what can be done to keep the deal alive and circumvent extraterritorial U.S. sanctions that are impacting foreign business appetite for Iran.
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It has extraterritorial rights in Rome and maintains diplomatic relations with over 100 states and the European Union and permanent observer status at the United Nations.
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The meeting will assess what can be done to keep the deal and circumvent extraterritorial American sanctions that are already impacting foreign business appetite for Iran.
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Mr. Kishida, the foreign minister, said the agreement would reduce the number of civilian employees subject to extraterritorial protections, but it remained unclear by how much.
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This did not happen with respect to the American extraterritorial sanctions on Iran that eventually brought that country to accept unprecedented restrictions on its nuclear program.
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It has suggested that European law could be used to prevent the application of "extraterritorial" measures by the United States, and it hinted at trade retaliation.
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By structuring the financing through vehicles without any U.S. link, whether to the currency or otherwise, the aim is to avoid the extraterritorial reach of U.S. legislation.
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The bloc, it says, will also prepare to use an EU regulation allowing it to defend companies against the application of extraterritorial measures by the United States.
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So there may be an argument there: The US can prosecute extraterritorial murders in certain instances, but it usually only steps in if the local jurisdiction doesn't.
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Culturally it would be a major loss to the city, and a loss to MoMA, too, because it's a kind of extraterritorial exhibit just across the street.
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In legal terms, Lenin later explained, the carriage was an "extraterritorial entity," a capsule shooting over German soil without contact with German citizens, potential enemies and spies.
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"The extraterritorial application of the U.S. embargo is illegal, contrary to international law and I also consider it immoral," EU ambassador to Cuba Alberto Navarro said in Havana.
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Failing that, Brussels could use existing directives to halt the EU activities of foreign banks "from a third country that imposes extraterritorial provisions on EU companies", it said.
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" In a joint statement Wednesday, Mogherini, Malmstrom, and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said they "consider the extraterritorial application of unilateral Cuba-related measures contrary to international law.
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Though Chinese officials denounce America as a bully with a long reach, some scholars wonder whether China might one day begin issuing more extraterritorial judgments of its own.
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He was promoted to a unit focusing on counterterrorism and extraterritorial investigations of Sunni extremists in 2006, and in 2016 was promoted to deputy director of the FBI.
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Berlin has condemned the plan for interfering in European energy affairs and threatening "illegal extraterritorial sanctions against European companies that participate in the development of European energy supply".
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Now, it has emerged that the FBI also compromised 50 computers based in Austria, with activists warning of the FBI's expanding extraterritorial reach when it comes to hacking.
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Were that to happen, the EU ambassador to Washington, David O'Sullivan, has said Brussels would revert to a 1990s-era law that shields European companies from extraterritorial sanctions.
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"For several years, we have underlined to the United States the difficulties that extraterritorial legislation spark," a French foreign ministry spokesman told reporters in a daily online briefing.
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Legal experts have described the move as the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI's inception, an agency that has already embarked on international hacking operations.
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"It's important that we develop mechanisms allowing us to counter extraterritorial laws, and a financing vehicle such as the BPI's is part of that," the senior adviser said.
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Even if no payments cross American territory, America could still impose extraterritorial or "secondary" sanctions, refusing to do business with a company that does business with a blacklisted party.
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Like it or not, Internet intermediaries certainly do operate in physical jurisdictions, and courts have a valid interest in protecting their citizens when a firm's extraterritorial behavior affects them.
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This change would be "the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI's inception," according to Ahmed Ghappour, an computer crime law expert and professor at UC Hastings.
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The EU is now activating legal instruments to block America's extraterritorial reach that will inevitably lead to political and security clashes, and a serious damage to trans-Atlantic relations.
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In 2014, it said in relation to the Microsoft case that "extraterritorial application of foreign laws (and orders to companies based thereon) ... may be in breach of international law".
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The EU should update a 1996 ban on European firms complying with U.S. sanctions based on such extraterritorial legislation, giving European firms a legal "excuse" to reject U.S. demands.
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But it wants to make the world more amenable to its ideology, so it has demanded extraterritorial censorship, compelling outsiders to accept limits on free speech beyond its borders.
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The European Union is considering creating a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to enable trade with Iran and more broadly help the bloc avoid the extraterritorial reach of U.S. law.
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Either way, the court will effectively be updating the antiquated SCA, either making it clear that it has no extraterritorial reach or deciding when it should have such reach.
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Also on Wednesday, the European Commission updated its blocking statute, a mechanism that bans companies in the European Union from complying with extraterritorial legislation adopted by a third country.
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It is almost inconceivable that China will accept the extraterritorial reach of America's legal and financial system in the same way that America's allies in Europe, and Japan, have done.
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He unilaterally broke the Iran nuclear agreement to the deep dismay of America's European allies and invoked extraterritorial US sanctions on Iran strongly opposed by the most of the world.
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The Mexico-US extradition treaty, he said, does allow for certain cases of extraterritorial jurisdiction — that is, instances where a country can prosecute crimes that happen outside of its borders.
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Together with the Quds force, the extraterritorial wing of Iran's notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and local Shiite militia, Hezbollah played a central role in the survival of the regime.
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"We're seeing, again, individuals from extraterritorial countries, extra-continental, come in from Brazil, Haiti, Africans," Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection, told reporters in December.
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BERLIN, Dec 18 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that she opposed U.S. sanctions on companies building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline because they have extraterritorial effect.
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Germany and other European allies accuse Washington of using its Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) to meddle in other counties' foreign and energy policies due to its extraterritorial effect.
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A U.S. exit raises the specter of a snapback of extraterritorial sanctions that could curtail foreign investment in Iran's energy sector and cause consuming countries to curb their Iranian crude imports.
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" Zanganeh asked Mazrouei to include a separate agenda item for the June OPEC meeting entitled "OPEC Ministerial Conference support to the Member Countries that are under illegal, unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions.
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Behind the administration's recent move is the untested wager that the renewed threat of extraterritorial sanctions against Venezuela's trade partners China and Russia could erode their support for President Nicolás Maduro.
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While the news media's coverage of the case has focused on the important issue of email privacy, the underlying legal issue is whether the statute authorizing the warrant has extraterritorial reach.
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He urged Europe to exert itself as "a trade and economic power", which defends its strategic interests and financial independence and is able to fend off the extraterritorial reach of U.S. sanctions.
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That approach has been tested after Trump shunned Macron and other allies, pulling out of a global climate pact, imposing extraterritorial sanctions on Iran, and imposing tariffs on EU steel and aluminium.
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Two, there's an extraterritorial aspect to her case, and three, there's the issue of Iran sanctions which are involved in her case, and Canada does not sign on to these Iran sanctions.
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And they happen to be extraterritorial in nature and they threaten the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which became one of the key factors of regional and international stability.
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"The EU reiterates a strong opposition to the extraterritorial application of unilateral restrictive measures which is considers contrary to international law," a spokesman for the EU executive told a briefing in Brussels.
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"The United States conducts large-scale extraterritorial eavesdropping, uses drones to attack other countries' innocent civilians, and its troops on foreign soil commit rape and murder of local people," Mr. Fu added.
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The regulations were agreed in 1996 as a countermeasure to the U.S. extraterritorial economic sanctions against Cuba, which EU governments argued benefited U.S. foreign policy interests at the expense of European sovereignty.
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Aka, activities that the U.S. Government has been shown to indulge in via its mass surveillance program… "In many cases these violations are committed against foreign citizens in extraterritorial way," Golytyaev added.
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The current trade numbers are showing that difficult bilateral economic issues will linger on, alongside dangerous confrontations on Korean problems, Iran's nuclear treaty, extraterritorial sanctions, and fundamental principles of the world order.
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Because Congress did not anticipate cloud computing thirty years ago, the statute says nothing about extraterritorial reach and Congress has failed to modernize the law to reflect the rapid transformation of computing.
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Kazempour, citing Zanganeh's letter, asked the board to include in the June talks an agenda item titled "OPEC Ministerial Conference support to the Member Countries that are under illegal, unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions".
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The Supreme Court has emphasized in the last few years a presumption that American laws should not be applied outside the country unless Congress makes it clear that they extend to extraterritorial conduct.
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BERLIN, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Germany said on Thursday it rejected "foreign interference and ... extraterritorial sanctions" after the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill opposing Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany.
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"As close allies, we expect that the extraterritorial effects of U.S. secondary sanctions will not be enforced on EU entities and individuals, and the United States will thus respect our political decisions," they wrote.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Europe should challenge the United States over its increasingly aggressive use of extraterritorial laws that have cost European companies - especially banks - billions in fines and other settlements, a French parliamentary report said.
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But, of course, New York is a financial hub, so the 2nd Circuit's ruling that under 1782, non-party banks may have to turn over extraterritorial evidence in foreign proceedings, probably has broader implications.
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Earlier this month a French parliamentary report said Europe should challenge the United States over its increasingly aggressive use of extraterritorial laws that have cost European companies - especially banks - billions in fines and other settlements.
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Writing for a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge David Hamilton said the state's Vapor Pens and E-Liquid Act has an "extraterritorial reach that is unprecedented," violating the "dormant" Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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But the "Iran problem" is not limited to weaknesses in the JCPOA in its current form, but also extends to the persistent extraterritorial belligerence of the Iranian regime and to its egregious conduct at home.
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Yet nearly all of these boatmen are now carted from the Pacific and delivered to the United States to face criminal charges here, in what amounts to a vast extraterritorial exertion of American legal might.
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And even if it were to invoke such a presumption, the appeals court said, it would be overcome because Congress incorporated into Section 1782 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which allow for extraterritorial discovery.
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In 1998, Suleimani assumed command of the Quds Force — the Guards' extraterritorial terrorist wing — whose prior exploits included a role in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.
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That policy is now being tested after Trump shunned his closest allies and slapped on extraterritorial sanctions on Iran, having already pulled out of the global climate pact and threatened the EU with tariffs on metals.
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The U.S. adopted an official policy in 1948, in the months that preceded Israel's War of Independence, which declared that Jerusalem must be defined as an international zone under U.S. trusteeship, and remain extraterritorial to Israel.
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This case raises important questions about the extraterritorial reach both of the Constitution and the damages remedy that is available to United States citizens whose constitutional rights are violated on American soil by a federal official.
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An administration that did not protect small businesses from extraterritorial internet tax claims in the Supreme Court still aspires to protect the largest United States companies from the same kind of tax policy revisionism in Europe.
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Rather, the point is to stress that the proper approach is one that balances competing interests, not least of which is courts' ability to effectively enforce their orders, even when that means issuing orders with extraterritorial effect.
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Noble's case adds another accuser to the list while also seeking to test the reach of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, a U.S. law that has been reauthorized or amended several times, expanding its extraterritorial reach.
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A lower court had ruled that it was not – that law enforcement agencies would have to follow the same rules to obtain extraterritorial data as it would with physical evidence and seek the cooperation of a foreign government.
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"We believe that, given the current context, it is not appropriate to consider Libya a safe third country, nor to establish extraterritorial processing of asylum seekers in North Africa," the International Organization for Migration said in a statement.
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Some European officials speak of the need for "strategic autonomy" in the face of US sanctions extraterritorial reach on Iran and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech in Brussels this week where he questioned multilateralism and the European Union.
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Europe could create its own extraterritorial mechanisms to sanction breaches of environmental, data protection, tax and anti-corruption laws, according to the paper co-authored by Lamy and four others including Louis Schweitzer, honorary chairman of carmaker Renault (RENA.PA).
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" Louisiana Solicitor General Liz Murrill said these suits "commandeer the rightful role of Congress to pass policy for the nation and are improper in terms of trying to legislate extraterritorial economic policy from the states in which they originate.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union could put in place regulations to protect its firms doing business in Iran if the United States withdraws from the 2015 nuclear deal and restores extraterritorial sanctions, a senior EU official said on Thursday.
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Together with thousands of pages of court records and interviews with current and former Coast Guard officers, these detainees paint a grim picture of the conditions of their extended capture on ships deployed in the extraterritorial war on drugs.
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But EU officials say there is no easy way to protect EU firms and banks from the extraterritorial nature of U.S. sanctions that Washington has reimposed and larger firms have already started signaling their intent to pullback from Iran.
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Like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)(here and UK Bribery Act(here, the Brazil Clean Company Act[here] allows for extraterritorial reach in some respects, meaning any company doing business in Brazil can be punished, along with its culpable executives.
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Mr Breyer and several of his colleagues, especially the conservative-leaning ones, seemed frustrated by Mr Hilliard's inability to articulate a practical rule to govern not just Mr Mesa's conduct but other extraterritorial rights claims that may come down the pike.
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As they weigh up a response to renewed U.S. sanctions against Iran, which have forced an exodus of European companies, EU governments should consider the prospect of similar extraterritorial measures penalizing China trade, Lamy told an international investment conference in Paris.
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He wrote by creating an extraterritorial Bivens remedy in this case, meaning qualified immunity is breached, the majority veers into uncharted territory, ignores Supreme Court law, and upsets separation of powers between the judiciary and the political branches of government.
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Ahmad's specialty is counterterrorism, her subspecialty "extraterritorial" cases, which means that she spends a great deal of time overseas, negotiating with foreign officials, interviewing witnesses, often in prison, and combing the ground for evidence in terror-related crimes against Americans.
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U.S. law enforcement also risks a loss of access to data stored abroad if the United States pursues a unilateral approach, because other countries are likely to mandate both local data storage and increased extraterritorial assertion of jurisdiction in response.
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"It is clear that there is extraterritorial reach to some of these sanctions," said Rona Fairhead, a trade department minister in parliament's upper chamber, adding that Britain was working with the United States to make sure trade ties could still exist.
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The missile barrage followed three days of mourning over the U.S. assassination of Soleimani, longtime leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' elite extraterritorial Quds Force and the architect behind Iran's expansion of influence and proxy networks around the Middle East.
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Canada also said its Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act can be used to file suits in Canadian courts that "will allow Canadians to recover any amounts that have been obtained against them, including legal expenses, and losses or damages incurred," the statement said.
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England's law on suicide, introduced in 1961, makes it illegal to encourage or assist a patient to end their life, and is rare in being extraterritorial in effect (so that a citizen who commits a crime abroad may be charged at home).
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"It won't change things dramatically, but it's an important political message to Iran to show that we are determined to save the JCPOA and also the United States to show we defend our interests despite their extraterritorial sanctions," one European diplomat said.
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Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, the extraterritorial branch of Shi'ite Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Monday Iran had sent "thousands of tonnes" of arms and fighter jets to Iraq to help it fight Islamic State, Iranian media reported.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Thursday a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that the European Union is considering creating to enable trade with Iran could be used more broadly to help the bloc avoid the extraterritorial reach of U.S. law.
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"The extraterritorial application of ... sanctions, which we consider to be illegal under international law, threaten to harm UK and EU companies doing legitimate business in Cuba by exposing them to liability in U.S. courts," Britain's foreign office said in a statement on Thursday.
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"Both the question of the extraterritorial effects of an injunction imposing a removal obligation and the question of the territorial scope of such an obligation should be analysed, in particular, by reference to public and private international law," runs the non-binding opinion.
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Failure to respond to the worldwide clamor for financial accountability looks hypocritical from afar, considering the United States' aggressive extraterritorial pursuit of foreign companies that violate its Foreign Corrupt Practices law and its demands that foreign banks provide information about accounts held by American citizens.
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DUBAI, May 30 (Reuters) - Iran's oil minister has asked OPEC to support his country against what he called "illegal, unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions" referring to the United States sanctions on the OPEC member after the U.S. pulled out of a nuclear deal with Tehran.
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According to new reports from inside the Iranian regime, IRGC commander Mohammad-Ali Jafari has thrown his weight behind designating a "Cyber Force" to act as the IRGC's "sixth force" - alongside its ground forces, navy, aerospace, extraterritorial Qods (Jerusalem) Force, and domestic Bassij militia.
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The case highlights the FBI's use of malware to search computers overseas, as the US prepares to usher in new powers for judges to authorize hacking operations, which experts have described as the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI was created.
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"It won't change things dramatically, but it's an important political message to Iran to show that we are determined to save the JCPOA (Iran deal) and also to the United States to show we defend our interests despite their extraterritorial sanctions," one European diplomat said.
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Critics point to the case of Lee Ming-cheh, above, along with the seizure of a billionaire from a Hong Kong hotel and other extraterritorial maneuvers, as evidence that China is growing increasingly brazen in responding to what it sees as threats from abroad.
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"We try not to bring these cases to the Ninth Circuit," said Aaron Casavant, a Coast Guard lawyer who until 2014 provided legal guidance to the service's law-enforcement operations and recently wrote a law-review article defending the legal basis of extraterritorial drug enforcement.
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But the White House, in an odd twist that turns its European Union digital tax arguments upside down, just argued before the Supreme Court that the same kind of extraterritorial taxation is acceptable when carried out by American states on retail sales on the internet.
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Meanwhile, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip — already subject to more than a decade-long Israeli blockade and intermittent, devastating Israeli attacks — would remain in a state of extraterritorial limbo, denationalized and left in their open-air prison to the mercies of their Israeli jailers.
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"These extraterritorial actions are unacceptable, out of step with the expectations of the international community and a challenge to the rule based international order," the group said, noting that Hong Kong's Basic Law, equivalent to a constitution, protects the autonomy of residents of the former British colony.
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At the height of 19th-century imperialism, it signed a humiliating treaty that subjected its trade policy to the control of five Western powers, deprived it of the right to impose tariffs, set radically low import duties and gave foreign residents in trading ports extraterritorial status.
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In the case of Uber, you could argue that had Khosrowshahi said nothing about the extraterritorial vanishing of a journalist critical to the Saudi regime that might have been a pretty tricky position for the CEO to square with a loud PR message about 'doing the right thing'.
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In the FIFA indictment, which was returned shortly before the government submitted its brief in the RJR case, the Justice Department was careful to charge money laundering conspiracies that fit within the extraterritorial reach of that statute so that there was a clear basis for the RICO conspiracy charge.
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For these investigations, the bureau maintains extraterritorial squads in four of its field offices -- Los Angeles, Miami, Washington and New York -- who are responsible for launching personnel overseas to investigate threats to American interests and working to prosecute suspected criminals in either US or foreign courts of law.
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Citing the long-standing principle that statutes do not have extraterritorial reach unless they explicitly state otherwise, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the government's argument and its speculative premise about what Congress would have intended in 1986 if it had envisioned cloud computing.
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"The panel reached that unprecedented holding by reasoning that such a disclosure would be an extraterritorial application of the Act—even though the warrant requires disclosure in the United States of information that the provider can access domestically with the click of a computer mouse," the DOJ argued in its filing.
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When audience members interrupted the presentation to ask whether Putin was aware of the "extraterrestrial embassy" project, Briaud said the Raeliens recently wrote letters to Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, asking them for four square kilometers of land and extraterritorial status, and inviting them to the event on Saturday.
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"The panel reached that unprecedented holding by reasoning that such a disclosure would be an extraterritorial application of the Act--even though the warrant requires disclosure in the United States of information that the provider can access domestically with the click of a computer mouse," the DOJ argued in its filing.
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In one side conversation this weekend during the fourth annual Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum, a Mideast official who tracks such matters shared three reasons why Soleimani may be even more irreplaceable than the Iranian Supreme Leader himself, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, as the linchpin and architect of his extraterritorial visions.
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Anson Chan, who was the chief civil servant in the Hong Kong government both under the British and for the first four years of Chinese rule, notes that the colonial government considered granting Hong Kong courts extraterritorial powers to try serious crimes committed by Hong Kongers in the mainland as long ago as 20123.
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Europe's new mechanism for circumventing U.S. sanctions may or may not work, but the extraterritorial reach of U.S. sanctions on Iran and other nations is certainly hastening the day when the rest of the world will develop a multipolar financial system that no one country can use as an illegitimate tool of imperial power.
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Kenya used 'tear gas' to force workers onto plane to China: Taiwan China's extraterritorial reach worldwide is also cause for apprehension among Taiwanese, Uyghur, Tibetan and Hong Kong activists who now live and travel under the shadow of possible capture and extradition to China for any "crimes" as defined by Beijing's intentionally vague National Security Law.
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" Brexit's threat to cross-border data transfer will have a wider-reaching impact than it may initially appear, as Ustaran explains, "EU law has an extraterritorial effect, so if a U.K. business is targeting people in the EU or tracking them on the internet, it will still be subject to EU data protection law, even if the U.K. is no longer a member.
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While the legislation is not perfect, it is remarkable on both substantive and process grounds because it: Earlier versions would have placed substantial unnecessary burdens on U.S. companies, created extraterritorial restrictions that would have made little sense and most likely have harmed U.S. competitiveness, and overwhelmed the U.S. government to the point that it might have actually harmed our national security.
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The official said the UK does not have the right to implement its or the EU's unilateral sanctions against other nations "in an extraterritorial manner" and called for the vessel to be released immediately after it had been seized "at the behest of the US." Mousavi said that that Grace 1's detainment could increase tensions in the Persian Gulf, the state-run Press TV reported.
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It pledges new controls on the Austrian-German border, the main entry point for immigrants travelling from Europe's south (see map); extraterritorial "transit centres" on borders from which rejected asylum-seekers will be deported to countries with bilateral deals with Germany; and a policy of turning back those whose countries of registration do not have such a deal, under an arrangement to be agreed with Austria.
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JK: Well, I believe we have a responsibility, as company leaders, to help the governments of the whole world understand, if we want to move in to the Internet of Things, if we want to move in to free flow of data, this is an extraterritorial industry, so the industrial-, the next industrial revolution, which is, you know, we are basically in the middle of, this is about, you know, free trade, by definition.
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Y.) asked Treasury Secretary Jack LewJacob (Jack) Joseph LewHogan urges Mnuchin to reconsider delay of Harriet Tubman bill Mnuchin says new Harriet Tubman bill delayed until 2028 Overnight Finance: US reaches deal with ZTE | Lawmakers look to block it | Trump blasts Macron, Trudeau ahead of G-7 | Mexico files WTO complaint MORE to consider whether U.S. companies are being subjected to "discriminatory or extraterritorial taxes" under section 85033 of the tax code.
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But under current law, emails on servers located outside the United States cannot be subject to warrants issued in the U.S. That's because warrants are not extraterritorial – meaning they can't be applied outside the U.S. But the Justice Department tried to convince the court that Section 85033(a) of the Stored Communications Act allowed for this because the warrant actually functioned more like a subpoena, which can be served in other countries.
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Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE, (R-Utah), Chris CoonsChristopher (Chris) Andrew CoonsThe United States broken patent system is getting worse Biden faces scrutiny for his age from other Democrats Democrats press FBI for details on Kavanaugh investigation MORE (D-Del.), and Dean HellerDean Arthur HellerThis week: Barr back in hot seat over Mueller report Trump suggests Heller lost reelection bid because he was 'hostile' during 2016 presidential campaign Trump picks ex-oil lobbyist David Bernhardt for Interior secretary MORE (R-Nev.) introduced the International Communications Privacy Act (ICPA) of 2017, which would modernize the outdated ECPA and set up a comprehensive legal framework for determining the extraterritorial reach of court-ordered data searches by the U.S. government.
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