http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp en-us 05/21/2013 Copyright 2008 incisivemedia. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/law/international/international_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp When Lebanon's bankers turned to DLA Piper and Patton Boggs for help last year, they hoped the firms could burnish the image of a $127 billion industry tainted by allegations of money laundering for terrorists and drug dealers. Instead, two Lebanese financial institutions last month were hit with U.S. Treasury Department sanctions for purportedly aiding Hezbollah. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202598505395 2013-05-03 13:32:01 Despite the fact that neither the Civil Practice Law and Rules nor the Hague Convention expressly permit service of process via email, a New York appellate court has upheld email service of an international divorce summons after other methods failed in a matrimonial case where a wife returned to Iran. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202598399987 2013-05-02 18:31:19 Egypt's Islamist-led parliament has pushed ahead with a law that could force into retirement many of the nation's most senior judges, despite an uproar by the judiciary over fears the president's allies want to control the courts. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202597432515 2013-04-25 18:01:48 A New York state judge has declined to recognize an Egyptian court's appointment of a son as his father's guardian, dismissing as contrary to the state's public policy the son's bid to control his father's U.S. assets. Instead, the judge appointed the elder man's wife as his personal needs guardian. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202595309544 2013-04-09 18:27:50 Writing that he hoped he was near the end of litigation that the D.C. Circuit once described as "Sisyphean labor," a D.C. federal judge has ordered Iran to pay $40.5 million in damages, interest and attorney fees to plaintiff McKesson Corp. in a 30-year dispute over interests in an Iranian dairy. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202593952831 2013-03-29 13:15:22 Duane Morris has opened an office in Muscat, Oman, through a joint venture with Al Mashaikhi and Partners Law Firm. Duane Morris, which entered into a joint venture with Selvam LLC in Singapore in 2010, hopes to capitalize on the commerce between Singapore, Oman and London as well as the countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202593700335 2013-03-27 18:22:32 The state of Florida is urging a skeptical federal appeals court to allow enforcement of a law that prohibits companies from bidding on state and local government contracts if they also do business in Cuba or Syria. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202593127174 2013-03-22 01:36:08 A federal judge dealt a severe blow Friday to a long-running torture lawsuit filed against military contractor CACI by four Iraqis who say they suffered abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202591803347 2013-03-12 18:36:50 A television consultant claims that former Vice President Al Gore and others at Current TV stole his idea to sell the struggling network to Al-Jazeera and is demanding more than $5 million. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202591392665 2013-03-08 18:33:28 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that plaintiffs injured in a 1997 Hamas terrorist attack in Jerusalem can't attach Iranian antiquities at Boston-area museums to fulfill a judgment award against the Republic of Iran. The court held that the antiquities are not "blocked assets" under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202590921435 2013-03-05 18:46:41