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EU relaxes sanctions against Syria, including oil embargo, and ends economic sanctions against MyanmarBurma

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Myanmar, Syria
  • -
  • May 13 2013

On April 22 the Foreign Affairs Council of the EU agreed to soften sanctions against Syria and to introduce further waivers in a calculated move to

How do you search the cloud?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2013

A federal magistrate judge recently rejected a government request for a search warrant that would allow it to surreptitiously install data extraction

Google wins third round of DMCA fight with Viacom

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2013

A federal district court in New York has once again granted Google and its subsidiary YouTube summary judgment on Viacom's claims of copyright

Lessons from the New York ATM heist

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The announcement yesterday of charges in New York against eight members of a cybercrime ring that stole $40 million from ATMs in 24 countries, all

DOR issues guidance on Arizona’s sales tax rate reduction for contractors

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

Arizona's state sales and use tax rate is scheduled to go down by 1 effective June 1, 2013, as a result of the automatic sunset of the temporary

The doctrine of frustration in English law

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 10 2009

In English law, "a contract may be discharged on the ground of frustration when something occurs after the formation of the contract which renders it physically or commercially impossible to fulfil the contract or transforms the obligation to perform into a radically different obligation from that undertaken at the moment of the entry into the contract."

New York court rules that an insurer may reserve its rights after underlying litigation has commenced

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

According to a New York appellate court, insurers may still disclaim coverage years after underlying litigation commenced, if the insurer's delay in

Yes, I really am Angela Merkel

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • May 4 2013

Facebook can keep forcing its German users to disclose their real names in order to register for and continue using the social network, after an

Arkansas gets social

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 4 2013

Last month, Arkansas became the latest state to bar employers (Act 1480) and educational institutions (Act 998) from requiring or requesting that

Minority shareholder protection in investments

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 9 2012

In any joint venture arrangement or co-investment in a company between two or more parties, the balance of power and therefore control as between those parties will, in the absence of any investment or shareholders’ agreement, depend to a great extent on their relative equity interests in the company and the extent to which they are represented on the board of directors