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4 Aug 2008, 8:00 am
As the EFF website notes,   Developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Switzerland is an open source software tool for testing the integrity of data communications over networks, ISPs and firewalls. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 8:57 am by Carrie Schimizzi
[JURIST] The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland [official website, in French] announced [press release] Wednesday that $4.6 million seized from the bank accounts of former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier [BBC backgrounder] must be returned to his family. [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 12:02 pm by Hillary Stemple
[JURIST] The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland [official website, in German] ruled Friday that the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) [official website, in German] violated the law in February 2009 when it ordered UBS [corporate website] to disclose information to the US on more than 250 of the bank's clients. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 2:06 am
[JURIST] Credit Suisse [corporate website], Switzerland's second largest bank, agreed [DOJ press release] Wednesday to pay more than $500 million in fines to both the US government and New York state for violating US sanctions against Iran and other countries. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 2:15 am
[JURIST] The government of Switzerland [official website; JURIST news archive] on Sunday announced that voters in a referendum have approved a measure [official materials, in German] making the country's heroin assisted treatment program (HAT) [official website] permanent. [read post]
4 Apr 2015, 9:29 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
from CNET:The launch of Apple Watch could be delayed in Switzerland, known as the birthplace of luxury watches, due to a patent owned by watch brand Leonard, which bars the tech titan from using the image of an apple or the word "apple" within the country, according to Swiss broadcaster RTS.link: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-watchs-swiss-debut-delayed-by-patent-snag/ [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 8:40 am by Brian D. Zuccaro, Esq.
Background: The TN visa applicant in this case was a citizen of Mexico and Switzerland. [read post]
” The post Switzerland Attorney General indicts former Syrian Vice President Rifaat al-Assad for war crimes in Syria appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 9:17 am by Miracle Jones
The referendum was sponsored by the Green party of Switzerland [official site, in German] who hoped to remove nuclear power options from the country citing a transition to renewable energies was better... [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 7:09 am by Matt Belenky
[JURIST] Swiss authorities on Thursday said that the United States has asked Switzerland to extradite seven FIFA [official website] officials who were arrested on corruption charges in late May. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 11:00 am by Mark Casper
While Switzerland is a country where the right to privacy is considered very important, the new law will allow security agents to tap phones and computer networks. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 10:26 am by Elizabeth Lowman
Switzerland gives foreign firms lower taxes [Reuters report] than domestic firms, which was criticized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [official website]. [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 11:14 am by Steven Wildberger
[JURIST] Switzerland's lower house of Parliament on Tuesday narrowly approved a bill [text, in German] that would amend the nation's federal constitution to include a ban on "concealing ones face" in public under most circumstances. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 9:16 am by Sung Un Kim
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Switzerland [official website, in German] announced [official statement, PDF, in German and English] Friday that it has ruled partially for Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] in a case over privacy violations through its Street View service. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 8:37 am by lisaspearman@mercerhole.co.uk
Changes have been made to the tax agreement between the UK and Switzerland in respect of undisclosed Swiss bank accounts held by UK taxpayers. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 4:00 am by Gerry W. Beyer
In the popular imagination, the main tax havens of the world are in exotic locals like the Cayman Islands or the snow capped peaks of Switzerland. [read post]
15 Feb 2015, 5:19 am by INFORRM
On 29 January 2015, the Grand Chamber held a hearing in the Article 10 case of Perinçek v Switzerland. [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 9:15 pm
The United States and Switzerland continue to dicker over the proper  resolution of the offshore tax haven scandal. [read post]