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How to Criticize U.S. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (Part I)

Conflict of Laws

laws extraterritorially even when Congress wants them to. The Helms-Burton Act (one of the laws about which China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs complains) is an example of this. Congress clearly intended its cause of action for trafficking in confiscated property to discourage non-U.S. companies from investing in Cuba.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

A Connecticut man was thrown off a bridge on Thanksgiving last year after he intervened to protect a woman in an argument with her boyfriend. The Connecticut Post reported that the three fled the bridge but one of them dropped a cellphone at the scene. Rottjer allegedly admitted to police “I did it. I threw him over the bridge.” .

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