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Sanctions
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eDiscovery Today Blog
Failure to Attend Depositions Partly Limits Sanctions: eDiscovery Case Law
By Doug Austin
In the case In re Gold King Mine Release in San Juan Cnty., No. 1:18-md-02824-WJ (D.N.M. June 21, 2022), New Mexico District Judge William P. Johnson granted in part Plaintiff…
SmarTrade
OFAC Issues Russia-Related General Licenses
On August 19, 2022, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued two Russia-related General Licenses (GL) authorizing certain limited activities with Russian financial institutions which…
International Trade Law
Sanctions/Export Highlights [As of August 18, 2022]
By Jeffrey L. Snyder, Carlton Greene, Anand Sithian, Laurel Saito
UK Publishes General License for Energy for Mongolia: On August 16, 2022, the UK published General License INT/2022/2085212 for Mongolia energy payments. The license permits payments to the Credit Bank…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
RCMP reports on the frozen assets under SEMA’s Russia Regulations
Canada’s Special Economics Measure Act (SEMA) provides the Government of Canada the authority to impose sanctions on foreign jurisdictions and persons. Since February 24, 2022, Canada has frequently amended the…
Crypto Digest
Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash and Turns Up Heat on Mixers
By Carlton Greene, Caroline Brown, Anand Sithian
On August 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) sanctioned virtual currency mixing service Tornado Cash, which OFAC said has been used to…
FinTalk
Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash and Turns Up Heat on Mixers
By Caroline Brown, Anand Sithian, Carlton Greene
On August 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) sanctioned virtual currency mixing service Tornado Cash, which OFAC said has been used to…
Overheard on the Block(chain)
OFAC Sanctions Cryptocurrency Mixing Service for Allegedly Facilitating Money Laundering
By Kara M. Bombach, Marina Olman-Pal, Jena M. Valdetero
On Aug. 8, 2022, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed economic sanctions on Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency mixing service that allows customers to…
International Trade Law
Sanctions/Export Highlights [As of August 11, 2022]
By Carlton Greene, Caroline Brown, Jeffrey L. Snyder, Anand Sithian, Rachel Schumacher
Russia Sanctions: This week the United Kingdom updated the listings for several sanctioned persons by making 17 amendments to designated individuals and 10 amendments to designated entities. The amendments included…
Global Fintech & Digital Assets Blog
OFAC Sanctions Decentralized Virtual Currency “Mixer”
The US Treasury opens a Pandora’s box of legal issues as it targets a decentralized finance protocol used for both licit and illicit means. By Eric Volkman and Deric Behar On…
eDiscovery Bytes
#CaseoftheWeek Episode 76: Failing to Comply with Preservation Obligations
Episode 76 is Part I of a two part analysis of In re Keurig Green Mountain Single-Serve Coffee Antitrust Litig., 2022 WL 1082087 (S.D.N.Y. 2022), April 11, 2022 authored by…