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Supreme Court Issues Narrow Reading of the FSIA’s Expropriation Exception in Republic of Hungary v. Simon

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Last week, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Republic of Hungary v. Simon, a case concerning the scope of immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s (FSIA) expropriation exception....more

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New Minnesota Law Aims to Curb Foreign Influence in State Elections, But May Have Biggest Impact on Domestic Businesses

Last week, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Democracy for the People Act (DPA), a sweeping new law that substantially changes the state’s campaign finance and voting rules. The DPA establishes a new automatic voter...more

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Are You a Foreign Agent? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 21

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The Maria Butina case cast a spotlight on once-obscure laws known as 18 USC Section 951, and the Foreign Agent Registration Act, or FARA. The government has revived these laws to target political actors, foreign...more

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Resolving TikTok’s Data Issues Country by Country

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India’s Reliance Industries is considering acquiring TikTok’s business in India from ByteDance. We recently discussed the growing distrust by companies and countries of TikTok because of the perceived vulnerability of user...more

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Chinese and Russian Hackers Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine Research

The latest development in the Department of Justice’s “China Initiative” occurred earlier this month, as the DOJ unsealed an 11-count indictment charging two Chinese nationals with stealing hundreds of millions of dollars’...more

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What Companies Can Learn from the DNC Hack

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In summer 2015, the spies of a foreign country gained access to a private company’s domain name – pick any company you like, or several, since we don’t know which ones or how many. And within those domains, they created false...more

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