Michigan

New Registration Rules for Foreign-Invested Partnership Enterprises
Feb. 3 – The State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has released a new order on the registration of foreign-invested partnership enterprises effective March 1, 2010...

Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Australia
A recent judgment of the Supreme Court of Victoria provides a useful short summary of the operation of the Foreign Judgments Act 1991 (Cth) and the circumstances in which registration of a foreign judgment can be set aside on public policy grounds: Jenton Overseas Investment Pte Ltd v v Townsing [2008] VSC 470 (11 November 2008)...

Williams v. Bittel, Ky COA, Custody Modification and Stay of Foreign Judgment
Williams v. Bittel PUBLISHED: AFFIRMING HARRIS, SENIOR JUDGE, PRESIDING; ACREE AND CLAYTON CONCUR COUNTY: DAVIESS Child?s Aunt and Uncle (?the Williamses?) appealed from TC?s order denying their petition to modify custody of Child and cross-appealed from TC?s order denying their motion to reconsider the petition...

Establishing FICEs in China: Registration procedures explained
Feb. 5 - Since June 2004 China has permitted foreign direct investors to establish fully operational, 100 percent foreign owned retail and trading companies that can buy and sell in China, holding their own import-export licenses...

Nonrecognition of Foreign Libel Judgments
(Eugene Volokh) A California legal development from last year that I missed, in Cal. Code Civil Proc. §§ 1716?1717, amending California?s version of the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act: 1716...

New GAO Reports: Post-Government Employment Restrictions and Foreign Agent Registration, Veterans Affairs, Food Stamp Program
Post-Government Employment Restrictions and Foreign Agent Registration: Additional Action Needed to Enhance Implementation of Requirements, GAO-08-855, July 30, 2008 Examples...

Law & Order Depicts Police Procedures and Criminal Justice
Accuracy of Criminal Justice Depiction on Television

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Domestic Violence
Women's Rights

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Windows Software
Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order.

Schwan's Frozen Chicken
Recalled for Foreign Materials

Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.