Chávez expropriated businesses on a whim, sometimes on live television.
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During the Communist era, the house and store were expropriated.
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Then President Benito Juarez expropriated much of the church&aposs holdings.
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Chávez expropriated and redistributed wealth to weaken enemies and woo allies.
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One morning in 2202, just like that, it was expropriated. Taken.
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Within six years, all private property, down to corner shops, was expropriated.
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"They fear it could be expropriated," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Talk of attorneys raises another consideration: the issue of claims for expropriated properties.
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Morales has expropriated a series of foreign holdings since taking office in 2006.
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You can't expect the expropriated rich to show up for a second cutting.
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There are critical periods, large parts of family wealth was expropriated in the 2409th century, then after the second world war, biggest part of the family wealth was in what is now the Czech Republic , was expropriated then after the war.
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If adopted, the proposals mean land could be legally expropriated without compensation being paid.
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Chavez led a long nationalization wave that expropriated ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp operations.
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A Senate panel on Thursday advanced the bipartisan Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act.
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Their land was expropriated without compensation and sold at low prices to white farmers.
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In 2004, the local government expropriated the family's land and gave it to an investor.
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That included having their home expropriated and his children being taunted at school, he said.
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But after World War II the watch companies were expropriated by the Soviet-supported regime.
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In China, compensation for expropriated homes is based on the area that the dwelling occupies.
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Conoco's assets in Venezuela were expropriated in 2007 following the nationalization of the country's oil industry.
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After U.S. oil companies in Cuba refused to refine the oil, Castro expropriated their Cuban operations.
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An Exxon Mobil spokesman confirmed the suit is seeking to recover $280 million from expropriated assets.
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The change enraged hedge funds who had bought Fannie and Freddie's shares and found themselves expropriated.
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Venezuela expropriated a Crystallex gold mining project in 2011, which led to the 2016 arbitration award.
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The state expropriated 6,292 parcels, or 80 percent of Sur, in March pledging an "authentic rebuilding".
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A few months after the earthquake, then-President Rene Preval expropriated the land for the state.
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They expropriated and confiscated businesses, factories and farms by the thousands and bankrupted most of them.
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Oligarchs and other wealthy businessmen, mostly Ukrainian, lost billions of dollars in properties expropriated after annexation.
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The government has expropriated more than 1,400 private businesses since 22015, according to the State Department.
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They called for big landlords' properties to be expropriated and rents to be frozen in the capital.
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Pemex has been a symbol of sovereignty and national pride since Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated oilfields in 20173.
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As is often the case with expropriated land and companies, an army colonel was put in charge.
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His companies refused to sell properties needed for a new customs plaza until Michigan's government expropriated them.
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Property is expropriated, land records destroyed and much of the population uprooted from traditional land holding systems.
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"All your assets must be expropriated," he added, stressing that the money should go to state coffers.
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We don't see any homes being taken over, or land being expropriated or anything of the sort.
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In 0003, Mexico expropriated foreign-owned oil assets and created Petroleos Mexicanos, as Pemex is formally known.
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People from whom these objects were expropriated always knew this, from the moment of initial dispossession onward.
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Title IV bans executives and their families from the United States if they profit from expropriated properties.
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Americans can now sue people or companies that do business involving property expropriated after Cuba's revolution in 1959.
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In early 1945, de Gaulle's government expropriated the company and effectively made it an arm of the state.
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In the 1970s a leftist military government expropriated 15,208 rural properties and 21.6m hectares (25m acres) of land.
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Congress must act during the lame-duck session and pass the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act (S.
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Not long before the blast, their land had been expropriated and they were preparing for a forced relocation.
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These would allow Americans to pursue claims in the United States against companies "trafficking" in properties expropriated by Cuba.
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This would allow Americans to sue some foreign companies that use assets expropriated after the Cuban revolution of 1959.
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The state expropriated the field at the end of the '22011s, since Hasbún was not cultivating anything on it.
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The original panel had concluded that the Russian state illegally expropriated Yukos, using tax-evasion charges as a pretext.
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Productivity collapsed and the aristocracy's far-flung assets were expropriated, while Rome's trade networks and fiscal structures were destroyed.
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"If the decision goes against him, his sympathizers will feel that their right to vote has been expropriated," said Torres.
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Your grandfather started one of Germany's most successful textile businesses before the Nazis expropriated it and he fled the country.
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And he officially transferred to them his main possessions, including the family apartment, so that they could not be expropriated.
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Governments expropriated church property as early as 1859 and fought a war against Catholic rebels in central Mexico in the 1920s.
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Conoco's assets in Venezuela were expropriated in 2007 following nationalization of the country's oil industry led by then-President Hugo Chavez.
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One is that the TPP would, to an extent, protect foreign investors from having their investments expropriated — commandeered by foreign governments.
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Peru issued the bonds as compensation for land expropriated and redistributed to the poor in the 1970s by leftist dictator Juan Velasco.
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Conoco's assets in Venezuela were expropriated in 2007 following the nationalization of the country's oil industry led by then-President Hugo Chavez.
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The land bonds were issued decades ago under Peruvian law and in local currency as compensation to landowners whose property was expropriated.
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In another, Kurds and Arabs spoke of the day their homes were bombed by the Syrian Air Force, or expropriated by ISIS.
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Six pipelines snake across the farm, including one built by a company that expropriated his land to build the right of way.
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"We are claiming that Romania has expropriated our project and we are left with no alternative but to seek compensation," said Henry.
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The ruling came after the Brazilian construction company sued the Andean country last year, alleging the nation illegally expropriated assets during the investigation.
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Actress Dame Helen Mirren arrives to testify at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing to discuss the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act on Tuesday.
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The days of skulduggery in paleontology have not passed; DePalma was deeply concerned that the site would be expropriated by a major museum.
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The housing shortage has become a hot political topic in Germany, with some left-leaning politicians calling for private landlords to be expropriated.
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Most expropriated residents were offered — and accepted — relocation, usually to new residential towers up to an hour's metro ride from their old homes.
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Scores of international and domestic oil service companies have been expropriated since President Hugo Chávez, who was elected in 2100, came to power.
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Burford, for example, scored a 736 percent return by selling for $107 million its entitlement in a case against Argentina over two expropriated airlines.
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Under Mr. Chávez, many companies were expropriated in industries like telecommunications, banking, steel, cement and dairy processing, as was the nation's largest supermarket chain.
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The court said that the case launched by PJSC Ukrnafta seeking damages for expropriated petrol stations is covered by a bilateral Ukraine-Russia treaty.
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The South American country has debts worth around $200 billion to a diverse group of bondholders, commercial suppliers and companies whose assets were expropriated.
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But South Africa is manifestly not Zimbabwe: The Mugabe regime expropriated, without compensation, private land using vigilante violence and ignoring the rule of law.
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The local authorities in Franco's home region, Galicia, want to block the sale of a family estate because it stands on land he expropriated.
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The South American country has debts worth around $200 billion to a diverse group of bondholders, commercial suppliers and companies whose assets were expropriated.
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That is a big change in a nation that just six year ago expropriated Spanish oil firm Repsol's stake in state-owned YPF YPFB.
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But on July 603st Mr Ramaphosa said the ANC would propose an amendment to the constitution that clarifies when land could be expropriated without compensation.
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Canadian miner Crystallex is attempting to seize shares in the company as compensation for an unpaid arbitration award after Venezuela expropriated its gold mining project.
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Under President Allende, hundreds of companies were expropriated, the copper industry was nationalized, and an extensive program of agrarian reforms redistributed lands among the poor.
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In the 1930s he argued that Mexicans needed to protect their natural resources from foreign control and expropriated the oil industry, pushing out foreign investors.
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In 2012, the Argentina expropriated 51 percent of YPF's shares, all from Repsol S.A., but declined to tender an offer to buy out other shareholders.
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It's important to note, however, that the U.S. Justice Department has certified more than 5,900 claims for expropriated properties worth more than $1.9 billion (1960s dollars).
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Since Lázaro Cárdenas, a former president, expropriated the oil sector in 1938, state control over oil reserves has become knitted into Mexican notions of national sovereignty.
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Stalin expropriated, expelled or exterminated many of the most prosperous and sophisticated farmers (the "kulaks"), requisitioned grain at low prices and tried to nationalise draught-animals.
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Ecuador had said that the consortium abandoned the area illegally in a dispute over taxes, whereas the companies argued that the Correa government expropriated their assets.
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The Yukos shareholders have been trying to recover damages from Russia in various courts around the world, claiming that Moscow expropriated Yukos's assets for political reasons.
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Francisco Villa, better known to history as Pancho Villa, stormed over the border into Columbus, N.M., in 1916, and in 1938, Mexico expropriated American oil companies.
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The constitutional amendment he is seeking, he said, would strengthen the existing rules by making explicit the conditions under which land could be expropriated without compensation.
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It was part of a nationalistic push by Mexico, 12 years after the government expropriated foreign oil assets and created Pemex, to assert economic and industrial might.
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The fact that wealth is driven by intangible ideas, institutions and relationships, rather than tangible goods and land, means that it can't be expropriated by an invader.
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Most of the KMT's assets, the DPP believes, should be returned to the state, or in some cases to people or companies from which they were expropriated.
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The land, near the town of Paraiso, where the new refinery is planned was planted with coconut and citrus fruit in the 1970s and expropriated by Pemex.
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Lemma Teshome, the 24 year-old son of a farmer in Goticha whose land is being expropriated this year, worked for three years at a soap factory.
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From 733.413 to 2015, the city expropriated about 400 hectares of inner-city land and tore down a total of 23,151 dilapidated houses, according to UN-Habitat.
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A parliamentary committee will consider that testimony and other contributions before recommending whether or not to change the constitution to allow land to be expropriated without compensation.
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Other potential claimants include ConocoPhillips, which has been awarded over $10 billion by international tribunals for its Venezuelan projects expropriated by Mr. Chávez, who died in 2013.
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Since then, more than 950 companies have been expropriated, all of them purportedly linked to Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric who Turkish leaders say masterminded the putsch.
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Woodrow Wilson, under laws passed to support involvement in the first world war, nationalised railways, canals, telegraph lines and arms production, and expropriated American subsidiaries of German firms.
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He became a spectral presence in his compound in Siboney, a leafy enclave in the west of Havana of mansions built by the sugar barons he had expropriated.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the government issued what are now known as Peruvian Land Bonds to pay for land expropriated in a series of land reform initiatives.
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He expropriated and razed medieval houses to build a new headquarters for the Paris Guard and the Fire Brigade, a massive structure still occupied by the Paris police.
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They expropriated bones from two very different sources -- one was the thigh bones of fierce and flightless birds called cassowaries, and the other, the bones of their ancestors.
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The gold reserves were once controlled by a Canadian company before President Hugo Chávez expropriated them and pledged to use their profits to fund his Socialist-style revolution.
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Their concerns are fueled by a similar experience 20 years ago, when the government expropriated land to build the dam, paying below market value and devastating local farms.
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Conoco's assets in Venezuela were expropriated in 2007, after the late President Hugo Chavez nationalized several oil projects by forcing their conversion into joint ventures controlled by PDVSA.
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The air conditioned vaults of philistine businessmen will be broken open and the contents expropriated and your wretched art journalists will be stoned to death with fake Etruscan bronzes.
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Ten per cent of companies' equity would be expropriated and put in funds managed by workers' representatives, that would become the largest shareholders in many of the biggest firms.
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Separately, Venezuela's $1.3 billion settlement in October with Rusoro Mining of Vancouver, also over expropriated mining assets, has been upended by U.S. sanctions on Caracas, a source told Reuters.
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Earlier this year, President Guelleh unilaterally ended the contract with DP World of Dubai, one of the biggest port operators in the world, and expropriated the Doraleh Container Terminal.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has spoken approvingly of the need for reparations, potentially for Native Americans whose land was expropriated by European settlers as well as for African-Americans.
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The four senators are pushing the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which would break down legal barriers Jewish families often face when attempting to recover the stolen art.
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For me, a different moment of change came in 1996, when my company and the headquarters in which I'd invested more than $1 million was expropriated by President Yeltsin.
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The lawyer, Roger Wakefield of Werksmans Attorneys, said the Tanzanian government owes the farmer $33 million, including interest, in compensation awarded to him after having his land in Tanzania expropriated.
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While parliament has opened the way to a change of the constitution to allow land to be expropriated without compensation, a final decision is not expected until after the election.
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Even Fidel Castro's close friend Max Marambio, a Chilean with impeccable socialist bona fides, had his company and assets expropriated after a financial dispute with his government partners in 2010.
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With Israel's victory in the Six-Day War in 1967, the army took over, restricted the herders' movements and expropriated the area as state land — without yet evicting the Bedouins.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Brazilian construction company Odebrecht is suing the Colombian government for $1.3 billion alleging the nation illegally expropriated assets during a bribery probe, a government official said on Thursday.
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A lawyer for Canadian mining company Crystallex International Corp said on Tuesday Venezuela had breached the $1.4 billion November agreement that resolved a long-running fight over an expropriated gold mine.
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THE FOCUS, THOUGH, OF WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM YOU AND OTHERS IN THE ADMINISTRATION DOES SEEM TO BE ON THE THEFTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, THE EXPROPRIATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON THESE JBs.
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Property that has been expropriated but not yet demolished is rented out informally by their former owners to Syrian refugees for between TL 450-650 ($125-180) a month, residents say.
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Ar'ara, where the artist still resides, borders lands formerly owned by its inhabitants, including her family, but expropriated by Israel after the war and distributed to surrounding Jewish kibbutzim and towns.
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After the original Pool Room location was expropriated by the city in 2010, it relocated further up the street, right across the street from trans-friendly strip club Café Cléopâtre, appropriately enough.
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But the measure, which grew out of earlier trade provisions to compensate corporations after a foreign government expropriated their assets, does allow them to seek a range of damages, including unrealized profits.
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In a statement, Crystallex Chief Executive Officer Bob Fung said the company was "pleased" by the decision" and looked forward to "proceeding with our lien to recover our expropriated investment in Venezuela.
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He expropriated thousands of businesses, established byzantine controls on consumer prices and foreign exchange, let cronies loot the public purse and turned PDVSA, once a cash cow, into a make-work scheme.
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The U.S. government expropriated land from Native Americans and issued it for free to settlers under the 1862 Homestead Act, on the condition that they built homes and ran farms or ranches.
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Under Mugabe, the government argued that it would only pay for buildings and equipment on farms but not the land, which it said had been expropriated from locals during the colonial era.
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While parliament has opened the way to a change of the constitution to allow land to be expropriated without compensation, a final decision will not be made until after the elections next year.
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A federal judge denied Germany's motion to dismiss a lawsuit regarding the recovery of the Guelph Treasure — the first such case to be impacted by the recently enacted Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act.
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Our $28500 million power generation facility, located in Australia, was expropriated with no compensation whatsoever under circumstances that violate Australia's obligations to us as a U.S. investor in Australia under the existing AUSFTA.
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The South American country has debts worth around $200 billion to a diverse group of bondholders, commercial suppliers to state-owned firms with unpaid accounts receivable, and companies whose Venezuelan assets were expropriated.
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No progress is likely to be made on resolving official claims for expropriated property, the status of Guantánamo Naval Base, or on eliminating the embargo, which has become emblematic of a failed policy.
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To this day, Israel has refused to allow these Palestinian refugees from Jerusalem to return to their properties, which Israel expropriated and re-inhabited with Israeli Jews without paying compensation to their owners.
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Farmers suing a local factory for polluting their fields, citizens claiming police abuse, or residents objecting to having their homes expropriated — most of these cases are rejected outright by local courts and never heard.
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The tribunal ruled that Serbia indirectly expropriated Mytilineos's investment without compensation and frustrated its legitimate and reasonable expectations as an investor to be afforded fair and equitable treatment by the Serbian state, it said.
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On July 31st he went on television to affirm that his party, the African National Congress (ANC), would amend the constitution so as to clarify under what circumstances land can be expropriated without compensation.
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Responding to the report, Bankia said in a statement to Spain's market regulator that it was in talks to sell a portfolio of expropriated real estate and doubtful loans, but gave no further details.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Carnival Corp on Thursday became the first company sued for profiting from expropriated Cuban property as the Trump administration piles new sanctions on the Communist-run nation for supporting Venezuela's embattled government.
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"My wife got this for me after I lost my wedding ring—well, after it was expropriated without compensation," he said, at a café in Cape Town, a block from his office in Parliament.
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However, President Ramaphosa announced on July 31 that the ruling African National Congress would seek to change the country's constitution to explicitly allow land that was seized during apartheid to be expropriated without compensation.
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Tracts of land expropriated by Mr. Maduro's firebrand predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chávez, from the landowning elites in the name of the country's "Bolivarian Revolution" are being leased to anyone willing to work them.
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Today, I bring up the Kohinoor Diamond often, as the massive jewel, which was expropriated and remains unreturned, is just one example of how we were mistreated and how that mistreatment has been denied.
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The exhibition reflected beyond the artistic practice itself and made visible social problems that as a country are evident but not spoken about, such as linguicide, the forced catellinization and displacement of expropriated territories.
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After the end of the Cultural Revolution, monks whose land had been expropriated co-operated with local authorities and businesses keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.
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It was fueled by the forced labor of prisoners and "kulaks," wealthier peasants who had been expropriated and labeled class traitors, who like all workers in the Soviet Union, were pressured to meet exaggerated quotas.
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"It grieves us to see the lands of indigenous peoples expropriated and their cultures trampled on by predatory schemes and by new forms of colonialism, fueled by the culture of waste and consumerism," Francis said.
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"It grieves us to see the lands of indigenous peoples expropriated and their cultures trampled on by predatory schemes and by new forms of colonialism, fueled by the culture of waste and consumerism," Francis said Friday.
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HAVANA, May 2 (Reuters) - Carnival Corp on Thursday became the first company sued for profiting from expropriated Cuban property as the Trump administration piles new sanctions on the Communist-run nation for supporting Venezuela's embattled government.
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Three environmental groups that are fighting a proposed 162-mile pipeline across southern Louisiana have petitioned a state court to order the pipeline company to release records about land it expropriated and communications with government officials.
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It was briefly resurrected as an Armenian church in 1919 before the modern secular Turkish state expropriated it in 1921, eventually turning it into a petroleum depot, then into a museum, then again into a mosque.
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The race against time is much more immediate for Ken and Arlene Boon, farmers whose third-generation, 400-acre property is being expropriated for a Site C-related highway realignment that goes right through their house.
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Guaido said his team has also been in touch with companies whose Venezuelan assets were expropriated by the late former President Hugo Chavez, Maduro's mentor and predecessor, about returning to the country should Maduro leave power.
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Before he executes the professors, the protagonist of Mr. Lind's novel expounds on his theory to their faces: "Classical Marxists, where they obtained power, expropriated the bourgeoisie and gave their property to the state," he says.
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And I learned that the two golden coins my mother kept inside the toy stove of the dollhouse she'd built for me was all that remained of her great-grandfather's haberdashery business, expropriated by the Bolsheviks.
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Soon after, women living on these parcels began organizing, and in 2009 about 500 from all over the country protested in front of Parliament to demand equal rights to ownership, and compensation if land was expropriated.
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Cruise operator Carnival Corp became the first company sued for profiting from expropriated Cuban property last week under Title III of Helms-Burton by U.S. citizens who hold titles to the Santiago de Cuba and Havana ports.
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Washington's recent decision to allow lawsuits by U.S. citizens against firms deemed to be trafficking in property expropriated by the Cuban government is also impacting the foreign companies working in Cuba's tourism sector, with several facing claims.
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The hedge fund filed a US$1.6bn arbitration claim against Peru on June 2, alleging that the Andean country had indirectly expropriated its investment in violation of the Trade Promotion Agreement between Peru and the United States.
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While it made sense for an expropriated investor to be awarded compensation, Kern said that if unlimited future earnings were included in the calculation of damages, that could lead to claims against governments worth billions of euros.
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Public hearings are currently underway to gauge support for a policy proposal by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to change the constitution to allow for land to be expropriated without compensation for redistribution to poor blacks.
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Two decades ago, Ms. Romero voted for Mr. Chávez and saw the benefits of his reforms: She received a master's degree that his government paid for and a parcel of land that had been expropriated, she said.
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So although I'm not bitter in the slightest, I do find myself wishing for a revolution in which every single item of Our Legacy clothing this man owns is violently expropriated and then given to me, personally.
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On Thursday it was confirmed that proposed changes to the country's constitution to allow land to be expropriated without compensation will be officially published next week, setting the stage for a conflict between the government and commercial farmers.
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Yet in 1937, when Fritz Hauschild, the head chemist for the Temmler firm in Berlin (expropriated from its Jewish co-owner in 1934), synthesized the drug patented and marketed as Pervitin, the company received free rein to advertise.
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The heirs of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish entertainer and art collector murdered by the Nazis, are citing the recently passed Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act as part of an effort to claim two drawings by Egon Schiele.
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Only the most credulous investors will trust a currency issued by Venezuela's socialist regime, which has debased the bolívar, expropriated private enterprises, ridden roughshod over the country's constitution and faces sanctions from the United States and the European Union.
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Yukos Oil went bankrupt in 2006 after its former chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky fell out with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the Russian government began demanding billions in back taxes that ultimately resulted in its being expropriated by the state.
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The United States has said it is considering activating a long-dormant law that would expose companies and individuals to lawsuits for trafficking in expropriated Cuban property, as well as placing the country on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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Roger Wakefield, of Werksmans Attorneys, said his client, an elderly farmer who asked not to be named, was owed $33 million, including interest, in compensation from the Tanzanian government after his land in the country was expropriated several decades ago.
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But labor unions wield a greater influence at VW than at other German companies, a situation whose origins lie in the 1930s when the Nazi regime used expropriated union funds to build the massive plant at its home town of Wolfsburg.
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"What steps is your administration taking to ensure that trademarks belonging to U.S. companies are not adversely affected, or possibly further exploited or expropriated, by your policy of allowing imports of rum and tobacco products?" the lawmakers wrote to Obama.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party aims to test clauses in the constitution to see if they allow for land to be expropriated without compensation to address racial disparities in ownership that persist more than two decades after apartheid's demise.
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Seven years ago, former populist President Cristina Fernandez - who is Alberto Fernandez's running mate in this year's election - expropriated Repsol's stake in Argentina's state-owned oil company YPF SA in a move that dented foreign appetite for energy investment in Argentina.
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CAPE TOWN, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Proposed changes to South Africa's constitution to allow land to be expropriated without payment will be officially published next week, potentially setting the stage for a conflict between the government and commercial farmers and the opposition.
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After fighting stopped in Sur, the oldest district of Diyarbakır, the regional and local government (supported by the AKP) expropriated much of the land in the destroyed areas, displacing many residents and forcing them to move to other areas of Turkey.
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Tenor, for example, is financing two other arbitration cases for Canadian companies with allegedly expropriated mining projects: a $4.4 billion claim by Gabriel Resources Ltd against Romania, and a $764 million claim by Eco Oro Minerals Corp against Colombia, according to company records.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 21 (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party aims to test clauses in the constitution to see if they allow for land to be expropriated without compensation to address racial disparities in ownership that persist more than two decades after apartheid's demise.
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But Ramos ruled against him, citing the 2016 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) act, which extends the statute of limitations in which a claim on Nazi-stolen art may be brought to six years from the time the claimants discover the artworks.
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In the 1830s, to help pay off Spain's public debt, the country's monasteries, along with their artwork, were expropriated, and some of those pieces later found their way into the Prado's collection after it was declared the national museum in the 1870s.
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American officials also cited two hotels affiliated with Melia in the region of Holguin, claiming that they are on a plot of land expropriated by the state in the 1950s, said Melia, which ranks among Europe's largest hotel companies with 380 hotels in 40 countries.
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The idea is that India will become more efficient, as more people and more money enter the banking system; counterfeit currency will become worthless; India's woefully low tax base will expand; and government coffers will enjoy a windfall of cash expropriated from the corrupt.
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But the building, which was expropriated by the Beirut municipality in 2003 and renovated with over $18m of public funds, is opening on a temporary basis, with no board, no director, no cultural policy, no permanent collection and no staff—not even a maintenance team.
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A lawyer for the plaintiffs said he believed the case was the first against a bank that allegedly "trafficked" in property expropriated by the Castro regime, since the Trump administration said in April it would begin letting U.S. nationals sue companies for such conduct.
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Germany and Norway have suspended donations to a $1.2 billion fund to back sustainable projects in the Amazon after the government shut down the steering committee that selects projects and planned to use it to compensate farmers who had land expropriated in protected areas.
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Noor was the only jihadi in his family—he told me that he had joined ISIS without his parents' knowledge or permission—but, last year, members of a Hashd group arrested his relatives, expropriated their home and property, and sent them to detention camps.
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The great-great-grandson of the last Kaiser has been in talks for years with the federal government, as well as the state governments of Berlin and Brandenburg, about the return of possessions expropriated by the Russians at the end of the second world war.
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Writing for a three-judge panel, Chief Judge Robert Katzmann recognized that the federal Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 and other recent measures respected the need to provide "some measure of justice, albeit incomplete," to victims of Nazi brutality and their heirs.
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Environmental groups said the government was seeking to reduce the number of representatives of civil society on the steering committee, including the removal of a seat for indigenous people, and planned to use funds to compensate farmers whose lands were expropriated in protected areas.
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The roughly 10-mile stretch of Route 443 that runs through the West Bank, constructed on land that was expropriated from the Palestinian villages, has a military checkpoint at each end, and for many Palestinians it has become a symbol of the injustices of Israeli occupation.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Turkey's Seizure of Property for War Restoration Alarms Armenians" (news article, April 24): It has been made abundantly clear, at the highest levels, that places of worship will not be expropriated and that the right of ownership will not be infringed upon.
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For Palestinian refugees, the key is a crucial symbol of the UN-sanctioned right to return to the homes and lands expropriated with the creation of Israel in 1948 (often referred to as ), and again in the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank in 1967.
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He said the exhibition showed some Germans became Nazis as they stood to gain personally when the property of Jews was expropriated, while others were attracted to the Nazis because they were unhappy about the Versailles Treaty and "followed Hitler because he promised to make Germany great again".
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A Spanish court last year dismissed a 10 million euro ($11 million) lawsuit lodged by a Cuban-American family over the two hotels in Holguin, after the Trump administration implemented long-dormant legislation allowing U.S. citizens to sue foreign and Cuban entities over their use of expropriated properties.
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The paintings, which were acquired by the museum in 1971, had been expropriated by the Nazis during World War II. The Museum Association's Ethics Committee ruled that it found no violations of its Code of Ethics in emails and memos sent between BP and a number of British museums.
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Chevron and other firms aim to avoid a repeat of what happened to Exxon Mobil Corp and ConocoPhillips in Venezuela in 2007, when the government of then-President Hugo Chavez expropriated their assets after they could not reach an agreement to convert their projects into PDVSA-controlled joint ventures.
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The FDA aggressively expropriated the control of genetically engineered animals in 2009 with publication of a "guidance" document that required all "genetically engineered" animals, from whales to mosquitoes, to be regulated by its Center for Veterinary Medicine like "new animal drugs" such as antibiotics, pain relievers or flea medicines.
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Luxembourg-based Tenaris, the world's top producer of seamless steel pipes for the energy industry, and its Talta Lda subsidiary had approached the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 2012 after its investments in Tubos de Acero de Venezuela SA and Complejo Siderurgico de Guayana were expropriated.
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Once upon a time, "entitlement" was, quite literally, something granted by a higher authority: A "noble" person pleased the sovereign, perhaps by acquiring land or fighting bravely, and in return the sovereign bestowed upon him special rights and privileges, perks not afforded to a commoner, including the right not to have their estate expropriated by the crown.
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He asks if the world would be better off if former Beatles musican Paul McCartney didn't have a net worth of $1.2 billion: Would there be less suffering in the world if his money is expropriated and transferred to the wretched of the earth via higher taxes rather than through his own charitable donations and investments?
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Those have included restricting Americans' travel to officially approved group trips with cultural organizations, ending the allowance for American cruise ships to dock in Cuban ports, plans to reduce to $503,000 the amount of money that Cuban-Americans can send to Cuba every three months, and allowing United States citizens to sue foreign companies over the use of property expropriated by the Castro government (a provision suspended by Republican and Democratic administrations since it was passed in 1996).
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Those have included restricting Americans' travel to officially approved group trips with cultural organizations, ending the allowance for American cruise ships to dock in Cuban ports, plans to reduce to $503,000 the amount of money that Cuban-Americans can send to Cuba every three months, and allowing United States citizens to sue foreign companies over the use of property expropriated by the Castro government (a provision suspended by Republican and Democratic administrations since it was passed in 1996).
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When the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act was adopted unanimously by Congress in December, it was widely praised as a necessary tool to help the heirs of Holocaust victims recover art stolen from their families during World War II. Now the efficacy of the HEAR Act, as it is known, may get an early test in New York State Court, where the heirs of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish entertainer, are citing it in efforts to claim two valuable colorful drawings by Egon Schiele.
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The ruling Thursday, by Judge Charles J. Ramos, is one of the first successful applications of the Holocaust Expropriated Recovery, or HEAR, Act, passed by Congress in 1003, and designed to ease statute of limitations restrictions for plaintiffs seeking to recover artwork stolen during World War II. The two disputed Schiele drawings — "Woman in a Black Pinafore" (1911) and "Woman Hiding her Face" (1912) – were part of a 449-piece collection owned by Fritz Grunbaum, a well-known cabaret performer in Vienna who was also a vocal critic of the Nazis.
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