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…from an authoritarian state to a democracy, leading to new calls from the island and from some of its immigrants in the United States for an independent Taiwan. Seeking to capitalize on the ever-larger number of mainlanders in the United States and to battle the nascent Taiwan in...

…ted subpoenaed documents, the act of producing those documents is testimonial. Two Supreme Court precedents, Fisher v. United States, 425 U.S. 391 (1976) and United States v. Hubbell, as well as Hubbell’s progeny, United States v. Ponds, 454 F.3d 313 (D.C. Cir. 2006), inform the...

…)(2). For differences from the old law, see Twist, supra note 2. 25 See 18 U.S.C. 3663(a)(2). 26 See, e.g., Hughey v. United States, 495 U.S. 411 (1990) (holding that VWPA limited "victim" to victims of the actual offense of conviction so that district court could not order res...

…se of another. And it has the capacity to act on its independent judgment, while courts are confined to ordering 6 See United States v. Gamble, 694 Fed. App'x. 750 (11th Cir. 2017), cert. granted, Gamble v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2707 (2018). Even if the Court abolishes the d...

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…ting a string of measures including the introduction of 100 air marshals on U.S. planes. "Most countries, including the United States, found effective means of dealing with piracy on the high seas a century and a half ago," Nixon said. "We can -- and we will - - deal effectively...

…ting a string of measures including the introduction of 100 air marshals on U.S. planes. "Most countries, including the United States, found effective means of dealing with piracy on the high seas a century and a half ago," Nixon said. "We can -- and we will - - deal effectively...

…overnment but criminal justice administration to state or provincial prosecutors and courts). In Australia, like in the United States, states and the federal government each have their own criminal codes. But Australian federal criminal authority is confined much more narrowly th...

…ate safeguard for the citizen against inaction on the part of the authorities." °° The only remnant of this view in the United States seems to be in Pennsylvania. Its courts view victim-initiated 6 18 U.S.C. § 3771(d)(6). Elsewhere, regarding victim complaints of rights violatio...

…Street Los Angeles, CA 90017-580o May 19, 2008 VIA FACSIMILE Honorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Judge Filip: Joe D. Whitley Alston & Bird LLP The Atlantic Buildin...

…Street Los Angeles, CA 90017-5800 VIA FACSIMILE May 19, 2008 Honorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Judge Filip: Joe D. Whitley Alston & Bird LLP The Atlantic Buildin...

…al's initiative in the long run, however, will pertain to Saudi itself Having been "shocked," as Hammond put it, by the United States' decision to pursue warmer ties with Tehran last year, and initially threatening a "major shift" in its relations with Washington as a consequence...

… groundbreaking ceremony in Summit, N.J., for Celgene, the pharmaceutical company he led until stepping down to run for United States Senate. To his right are Representative Leonard Lance of New Jersey and former Gov. Chris Christie. Mel Evans/Associated Press"},"identifier":"10...

… Efforts In recent years, there has been a growing interna- tional consensus that corruption must be combated, and the United States and other countries are parties to a number of international anti-corruption conventions. Under these conventions, countries that are parties unde...

… (Paul M. Heywood ed., 2015) (focusing on international and comparative corruption issues). Il See, e.g., McDonnell v. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2355, 2365 (2016) (describing quid pro quo requirement for federal bribery offense, 78 U.S.C. § 201, in relation to extortion and hones...