United States v. Evans
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
667 F. Supp. 974 (1987)
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Facts
The United States (US) government prosecuted Samuel Evans, Rafael Eisenberg, and Guriel Eisenberg (defendants) in federal district court for violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). The government charged the Eisenbergs with conspiring to take weapons that the US had sold to the US-friendly government of Israel and to secretly export those weapons to parties in Iran, a country controlled by a government hostile to US interests, without obtaining the prior approval of US authorities. The Eisenbergs moved to quash the indictment, arguing that the AECA had no extraterritorial application and could not reach alleged conspiratorial acts that took place beyond US borders.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Sand, J.)
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