Cooperation USA - Germany
am 28.04.2006 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
HG - Washington. United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and German Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries signed on April 18, 2006 two supplementary agreements to the Germany-United States extradition treaty of 1978 and the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, MLAT, of 2003. These agreements implement two treaties between the European Union and the United States that are supposed to conform and modernize the cooperation in law enforcement.
The extradition supplement adds rules for data protection and the simplification of the procedure of authentication and transmission of extradition files. Germany will still not extradite, however, persons who may receive the death penalty in the United …
US-German Crime Cooperation
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The German government approved a set of mutual cooperation and legal assistance agreements with the United States in a bill that implements bilateral agreements and E.U. agreements with the United States. The German text inclu…
Tax Treaty Protocol
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. On June 1, 2006, Berlin witnessed the signing of a protocol to the income tax treaty between the United States and Germany. The treaty dates back to 1989. The amendments reflect tax policy adjusting to globalization, such as t…
German-American Law Conference
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. After an encouraging and stimulating introduction by Ambassador Scharioth of the German Embassy in Washington, DC and both Ludwig Leyendecker and Georgetown University Law School Dean Alexander Aleinikoff relating German-Amer…
Tax Treaty and AMT
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / SSL - Washington. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the Tax Courts decision in the matter of Peter M. Haver v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, No. 05-1269, on the relationship of the AMT and double tax a…
Extradition Stopped
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / SWM - Berlin. The German Constitutional Court, Bundesverfassungsgericht, stopped the extradition of German citizen Mamoum D. to Spain. D. is suspected of supporting terroristic groups, including Al Quaida, since the late nineties. Most of the…
Criminal Cooperation Germany - USA
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. German attorney general Brigitte Zypries published a press release of a meeting she and her colleague Schäuble, Secretary of the Interior, had on March 11, 2008 with the American federal attorney general, Michael Mukasey…
Procedure in Germany and United States
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Criminal procedure differs greatly between Germany and the United States, an analysis discovered by Streitsache blog explains. Authored by Jupp Joachimski, the presiding judge at the Bavarian appellate court, the comparative r…
Treaty Violation?
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The United States allocated $13.3 billion for the Marshall Plan to assist European recovery after WW II. Germany received $1.47 billion from the European Recovery Plan, as the program was officially known. According to The Ec…
