Sanctions-related Judicial Opinion - U.S. v. Atilla (2nd Cir. 2020) (Jul. 20, 2020)

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TURBOFAC Commentary (291 words)

Notes:

1) The excerpted portion of the option is of high practical significance insofar as it undercuts the theory, advanced on several occasions by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, that a non-U.S. person may be criminally or civilly charged, under , with “evasion” or “avoidance” of secondary sanctions provisions where none of the conduct at issue is alleged to constitute the “evasion” or “avoidance” of any then-existing “prohibition.” While the 2nd Circuit dealt only with secondary sanctions provisions in this case, the reasoning would presumably extend to any allegation that a non-U.S. person has acted so as to “evade” or “avoid” the imposition of sanctions under one or more “derivative designation” criterion, at least assuming that the conduct at issue does not separately violate an actual sanctions prohibition. The court indirectly finds significance in...

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U.S. v. Atilla (2nd Cir. 2020) (Jul. 20, 2020)

TURBOFAC Commentary (291 words)