Latin America
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The U.S. special envoy to Haiti has resigned after just a few months on the job, citing the Biden administration’s “inhumane” and “counterproductive” deportation of Haitians to the crisis-wracked island nation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The operators of purported luxury development Sanctuary Belize will have to pay more than $120 million in addition to facing bans from certain business sectors after a Maryland federal judge ruled Friday that they had run a real estate scam that swindled American consumers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday that it has opened a probe in response to petitions from U.S.-based metal producers that alleged potentially unfair practices in the aluminum trade involving 18 countries from across the globe… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A First Circuit panel upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of a Brazilian man who sued for the return of his daughter after the child’s mother took her to the United States, but the appellate judges tweaked the order to avoid taking sides in a custody dispute between the parents… Read this piece in…
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A U.S. environmental advocacy organization announced on Wednesday that it has lodged a lawsuit in Mexico seeking to force the country’s natural resources regulator to add three species of hammerhead shark to its list of protected wildlife, saying the suit could be the first of its kind… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 