Federal appeals court blocks Florida law barring contracts with Cuba, Syria businesses

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] on Monday upheld [opinion, PDF] a lower court ruling blocking enforcement of a Florida law [materials] that denies government contracts to companies that do business in Cuba or Syria. The law was challenged [JURIST report] last year by Odebrecht Construction [corporate website, in Portuguese], a Brazilian company that would be affected by the legislation. A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/05/federal-appeals-court-blocks-florida-law-barring-contracts-for-business-tied-to-cuba-syria.php

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