(2) James Rosen, Chinese Firm Gets Big Cache of US Government Documents in Unprecedented Exchange Over Wind-Farm Dispute. McClatchy, Nov 26, 2014 www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/11/26/2 ... s-big-cache-of.html
(US Department of Justice, representing the federal agency, Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), delivered 3,487 pages of government documents to Ralls Corp (a subsidiary of Sany) by Friday (Nov 21, 2014))
Note:
(a) "In an order earlier this month [Nov 6, 2014], Jackson directed the government to provide unclassified documents behind its decision."
(b) The VOA report quotes an attorney and describes him this way: "华盛顿市律师克里斯托弗·布鲁斯特(Christopher Brewster) 曾经在美国参议院以及联邦贸易委员会担任过法律顾问。" He is not entirely neutral: The McClatchy dispatch states: "Christopher Brewster, a Washington lawyer with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan who represents Chinese and other firms seeking to buy American companies, said the document dump was significant even though the materials were unclassified." Mr Brewster may not represent Ralls (judging from the quotation), he certainly roots for Ralls.
(3) Karlee Weinmann, In Rare Move, CFIUS Hands Over Cache Of Ralls Docs. Law360, Nov 26, 2014 (blog) www.law360.com/articles/599760/i ... cache-of-ralls-docs
(3,487 pages of documents were handed over "according to a Tuesday [Nov 25, 2014] court filing, an unprecedented turn in an ongoing dispute over the agency's rejection of the deal. Attorneys for Ralls Corp told a Washington, DC, federal court that CFIUS, the government group responsible for weighing national security risks in foreign investments, withheld as privileged just two unclassified documents linked to the scuttled deal. Classified documents, likely key to the CFIUS review, were not part of the exchange")
My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest of the blog.
(b) From another Law360 blog: "The case is Ralls Corp v Committee on Foreign Investment in the US et al, case number 1:12-cv-01513, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."