May 11, 2020
A Florida federal judge on Monday extinguished a Miami man's suit alleging Amazon and a charcoal producer trafficked in property confiscated by Cuba's communist government in violation of the Helms-Burton Act, concluding the law does not allow claims based on ownership obtained through inheritance after its 1996 passage.
May 04, 2020
A Miami man slammed Amazon's and a charcoal producer's bids to toss his revised suit alleging they trafficked in property confiscated by Cuba's communist government in violation of the Helms-Burton Act, saying their position that he failed to assert a sufficient ownership interest would nullify the law.
April 17, 2020
Amazon and a charcoal producer urged a Florida federal judge Friday to toss a Miami man's revised suit alleging they trafficked property confiscated by the Cuban government, arguing that he failed to fix problems from his original complaint.
March 11, 2020
Amazon and a Cuban charcoal importer escaped claims that they were illegally trafficking property confiscated by the Fidel Castro regime after a Florida federal judge found that the Miami man who brought the claims under a recently activated law hadn't shown the property was rightfully his.
March 10, 2020
A Miami man's lawsuit claiming Amazon and a local importer of Cuban charcoal have illegally trafficked in property confiscated by the Castro regime was doused with criticism by a federal judge Tuesday, but the judge left a flicker of opportunity for him to repair deficiencies in his complaint.
November 20, 2019
Amazon Inc. didn't know the origins of imported Cuban charcoal sold on its website by a third party, and therefore couldn't be liable in a Miami man's lawsuit claiming the retailer and an importer violated a ban on knowingly trafficking in property the Cuban government had seized from Americans, according to briefs the companies filed Tuesday in a Florida federal court.
September 27, 2019
Amazon.com Inc. became the latest major corporation to be hit with a claim of trafficking of stolen property in Cuba under the Helms-Burton Act when it was sued over its sale of charcoal produced on farmland that was expropriated by the island's communist government.