As reported by Kuwaiti media, authorities in Kuwait are cracking down on possible employment-based immigration schemes involving up to 3,000 sham companies that were set up and used as vehicles to obtain work permits for foreign companies. This has led to
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Kuwaiti Law Student Activist Sentenced To Prison For Tweets
Kuwait’s highest Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that activist and law student Hejab al-Hajeri must serve a two year prison sentence for insulting statements he posted on his Twitter account regarding the country’s emir. Mr. al-Hajeri has said that his…
Federal Court Dismisses Overtime Claims Brought by Contractor Employee Working in Kuwait
On April 28, 2014, a Massachusetts federal court granted dismissal of a proposed class action alleging that Raytheon violated Kuwaiti law by failing to pay overtime to employees working in Kuwait on federal defense contracts.
Plaintiff Darrell Robinson argued that…
Koldertsova on Middle East and North African Stock Exchanges
Alissa Koldertsova has posted Privatisation and Demutualisation of MENA Stock Exchanges on SSRN with the following abstract:The interest in restructuring the ownership and legal form of Arab exchanges has grown in recent years, as witnessed by the ongoing discussions related…
Court of Federal Claims Holds Government Abused Discretion in Terminating Contract for Convenience; Also Finds Contractor Liable for Violations of the False Claims Act
Gulf Group Gen. Enters. Co. W.L.L. v. United States
2013 U.S. Claims LEXIS 899 (Fed. Cl. July 2, 2013)
This action arose from a contractor’s claim that the U.S. Army (the “Army” or the “Government”) abused its discretion in terminating…
Kuwait Gets Another Billion Dollars from Iraq’s Invasion in 1990 — Payments Now Total $44.5 Billion
The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which settles the damage claims of those who suffered losses due to Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, today made $1.03 billion available to the Government of Kuwait. The latest round of payments brings the…
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Ninth Circuit Overturns Certification of Overtime Class Action Because Of Foreign Statute Of Repose
It’s not all that often that a federal court of appeals reverses an order granting class certification in an unpublished opinion—much less the Ninth Circuit. But a panel of that court just did so last week in holding that a…
Thomson Reuters Foundation Presents 2012 TrustLaw Impact Award to Latham & Watkins, Equality Now and the Royal Bank of Scotland
Latham & Watkins and the Royal Bank of Scotland collaborated with Equality Now to research and analyze legislation implemented to combat the demand for prostitution and the associated issue of human trafficking, specifically sex trafficking, in multiple jurisdictions across the…
Kuwaiti Company Gambles and Loses on Default Judgment; Court Enforces Forum Selection Clause
Carlyle Investment Management L.L.C. v. National Industries Group (Holding), C.A. No. 5527-CS (Del. Ch. Oct. 11, 2012).
Issue Presented: Whether a default judgment should be opened when the defendant Kuwaiti company agreed to a forum selection clause in Delaware and…