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Gay Man Faces Deportation Despite Marriage to U.S. Citizen

January 12, 2012

Frederic Deloizy, a French national, and Mark Himes, a Harrisburg, PA native, are a happily married couple with four young children. The couple met in 1990 in Pennsylvania and wed in California in 2008. Their happiness could soon be over, however. Deloizy spent the past two decades in and out of the United States leapfrogging…

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Blocking of Amendment Against Shariah Law

January 11, 2012

As previously reported on our blog, a ban on U.S. courts considering Sharia, or Islamic, law in any proceedings passed overwhelmingly in Oklahoma on November 2, 2010. One day later, on November 3, 2010, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced that it plans to file a lawsuit against Oklahoma for passing the “Shariah law…

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Bloggen kann teuer sein

January 11, 2012

Eigentlich wollte er nur ein lustiges Bild auf seinem Blog einstellen. Dieser Spass kam dem Blogger Carsten Herkenhoff nun teuer zu stehen. Für das Weiterreichen eines Fotos des Fotografen Heinrich von Schimmer hat der Blogger 250 Euro an den Fotografen bezahlt, um einer Abmahnung zu entgehen. Den ganzen Artikel finden Sie hier. (c) Picture: freedigitalphotos.net…

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I.R.S. Revives Voluntary Disclosure Program for Offshore Accounts

January 10, 2012

At the beginning of last year we reported on our blog about the amnesty program of the Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) for offshore accounts. Yesterday, the I.R.S. announced that it would revive its so-called voluntary disclosure program for offshore accounts. The I.R.S. collected $4.4 billion in two previous programs The program’s revival is part of…

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Von Kanada in die USA mit iPad statt Reisepass

January 10, 2012

Gnadenlos und finstere Miene, so kennt man die U.S. Grenzbeamten. Eine andere Art von Grenzbeamten hat nun jedoch der 33-jährige Kanadier Martin Reisch kennengelernt. Dem jungen Mann gelang es ohne Reisepass in die USA einzureisen. Erst an der Grenze bemerkte der aus Montreal stammende Mann, dass er seinen Reisepass zu Hause vergessen hatte. Statt umzudrehen…

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Telekom und AT&T: Gemeinschaftsfirma statt Verkauf?

December 1, 2011

Zu Beginn des Jahres hatten wir auf unserem Blog über den Plan der Deutschen Telekom, seine Mobilfunktochter T-Mobile USA für 39 Milliarden Dollar an den Marktführer AT&T zu verkaufen, berichtet. Der Deal stieß jedoch bei den US-Kartellbehörden auf Widerstand. Das US-Justizministerium klagte wegen einer Verletzung von Wettbewerbsregeln vor Gericht, die Telekommunikationsbehörde FCC äußerte ebenfalls massive…

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Settlement Reached between F.T.C. and Facebook over Privacy Issue

November 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission in Washington announced a broad settlement with Facebook that requires the company to respect the privacy wishes of its users. The order requires Facebook to obtain its users’ “affirmative express consent” before it can override their own privacy settings. Facebook is also obliged to undergo an independent privacy audit every…

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USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2012 H-1B Cap

November 30, 2011

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced last week that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2012. USCIS is notifying the public that Nov. 22, 2011, was the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation petitions requesting an…

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Alabama Cracks Down on (Illegal) Immigration

November 29, 2011

In the past we reported about controversial immigration laws in Arizona, Georgia and South Carolina. Another state cracking down on illegal immigration is Alabama. Last weeks arrest of a German Mercedes-Benz executive by Tuscaloosa police for driving without identification required by the law raises the question, however, whether such laws hurt hurt economic development of…

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3rd Annual AmCham Business Day

November 11, 2011

As previously reported on our blog, on November 1, 2011 the 3rd Annual AmCham Business Day was held in Atlanta, GA. The BridgehouseLaw Charlotte team – Managing Partner Reinhard von Hennigs, Attorney Nicole M. Dickey and Attorney Judith S. Haensel – joined the amazing event which addressed Global Changes – Transatlantic Challenges: how political uprisings…

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