Is CAIR seeking the imposition of all foreign laws, even where they violate the U.S. Constitution, or just Shariah?
This is why she often gets help from government programmes that can offer insights into foreign laws and importing standards, like Susta.
Since there are rather a lot of foreign laws, this sounds like a licence to pick and choose whatever supports the judge's preferred outcome.
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Unfortunately, increasingly, foreign laws and legal doctrines that would restrict or deny these liberties are finding their way into U.S. court cases, thanks largely to the rulings of transnationalist judges.
Rather than seeking a ban on foreign or international law, ALAC seeks to preserve the constitutional rights and state public policy protections of American citizens and legal residents, in cases involving foreign laws in the particular dispute being adjudicated.
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The appeal of the American Laws for American Courts model for preventing such intrusions of unconstitutional foreign laws is evident from the fact that it has been enacted to date in three states: Tennessee in April 2010, in Louisiana in June 2010 and in Arizona in May 2011.
Two parties who agree to be bound by the law of a foreign jurisdiction when those foreign laws do not infringe upon any fundamental liberty or important public policy of the state of Oklahoma is as innocuous and conducive to the "freedom to contract" and the liberty inherent in private property as it sounds.
When restrictive foreign exchange laws held up the completion of New Delhi's first modern hotel that was fully air-conditioned in 1965, he secured a loan from the U.S. Ex-Im Bank.
In other words, Foreign Asset Protection Trusts do not rely on the U.S. courts finding that the laws of the foreign jurisdiction will apply, and in fact there is an implicit assumption that the U.S. courts will not make such a finding those trusts are designed to be effective even in the face of an adverse ruling by a U.S court.
This is precisely the loophole that PROTECT IP and SOPA are intended to plug: apply existing laws to the operators of foreign rogue websites that blatantly and intentionally skirt these laws for their own profit and give our courts and enforcement agencies a tool to cut these sites off from the U.S. market.
Above all, they oppose any serious easing of the laws on foreign ownership of property.
Experts say the increase was related to a recent drive to enforce U.S. tax laws concerning foreign accounts.
The existing laws discourage foreign investment, by allowing non-Iranians only 49% of the shares in any venture and no right to own property.
Critics accused the Malawian government of sidestepping laws banning foreign adoptions in order to allow the celebrity to take 13-month-old David home with her.
Second, institute laws that protect foreign investments and guarantee the repatriation of profits and dividends.
In devising ever-more complicated tests to determine whether U.S. laws apply to foreign conduct, judges have muddied the economic waters with uncertainty, the Supreme Court said.
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Today, by contrast, individual countries may pass laws like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but the overarching strategy that drives anticorruption must be multi-national in the truest sense.
Our present tax laws absurdly favor foreign-headquartered companies.
In this high-tech age -- when computer programmers are in short supply (don't forget the Year 2000 problem) and when Congress may liberalize immigration laws to lure foreign programmers to our shores -- this ban on programmers' becoming individual entrepreneurs is absurd.
For changes to immigration laws that would allow foreign entrepreneurs and businesspeople to stay and work and contribute.
In any event, Maliki said the United States and Iraqis are working to revise the old laws to make sure foreign security companies are accountable in the future.
The OECD said it was "seriously concerned about the UK's continued failure to address deficiencies in its laws on bribery of foreign public officials and on corporate liability for foreign bribery".
In government, however, the only sure way to break that power up is by promoting competition, removing remaining barriers to trade and foreign investment, and stiffening antitrust laws and their enforcement.
If American policymakers are looking for legal models on which to base new laws restricting immigration and expelling foreign lawbreakers, they have a handy guide: the Mexican constitution.
Mayor Reepalu notes that Sweden has toughened anti-discrimination laws and is working to validate foreign qualifications.
Indian laws currently restrict investments by big foreign retailers, but that could change, making Fabindia a prime target.
Furthermore, a limited number of mainland laws "relating to defense and foreign affairs as well as other matters outside the limits of the SAR's autonomy" as specified by the Basic Law apply to the SAR.
It says the buyout was a purely foreign affair to which U.S. securities laws do not apply.
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