Tag: us court

• Saturday, September 26th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Thousands of US companies sue the Trump administration over tariffs on trade with China

  

  About 3,500 U.S. companies, including Tesla Inc, Ford Motor Co, Target Corp, Walgreen Co, and Home Depot have sued the Trump administration in the last two weeks over the imposition of tariffs on more than US$300 billion in Chinese-made goods.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  “El Chapo” Guzmán has appealed against his life sentence incarcerated in US

  

  Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman has appealed against his life sentence handed down a year ago by a US court for trafficking hundreds of tons of narcotics into the country.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  International banks accuse Argentine major soy crusher of “diverting hundreds of millions of dollars” in a US court

  

  Banks owed money by cash-strapped Argentine soy crusher Vicentin are accusing the company of diverting hundreds of millions of dollars and have asked a U.S. court to subpoena records as part of a lawsuit, including wire transfers and bank statements.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  US court accuses ex FIFA executive members of taking bribes from Russia and Qatar

  

  Russia and Qatar offered and paid bribes to secure votes in the process that saw them awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, an indictment in the United States alleges. The document, brought by federal prosecutors in New York as part of the long-running investigation into corruption surrounding football's governing body, claims several former members of FIFA's executive committee were offered or indeed received bribes relating to their votes.

• Friday, January 4th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  YPF 2012 nationalization case reaches US Supreme Court: US$ 2.5bn at stake

  

  The US Supreme Court will hear this Friday an appeal against an intermediate court decision accepting jurisdiction over Argentina and its majority state-owned oil giant YPF, in a case relating to YPF’s 2012 re-nationalization by Argentina, then under the rule of ex-president Cristina Fernandez.