Folks are gonna run out of black toner printing that one off…
Geez. The readable parts basically say “No, nuh-uh, not even close”.
At least they disclosed that the opinion about the requirements of Country A’s law came from an official collaborating on the case. Concealing that fact can get you indicted.
It’s GREAT NEWS to my eyes!
Nothing stops the Mueller Bus!
Beep beep motherfuckers, BEEEEEP!!!
(Quick pause while everyone checks the pdf quick workarounds for blacked-out redaction)
When does the fine of $50,000 a day for refusing to comply with the subpoena start accumulating?
My guess is that Vladimir Putin for all practical purposes is the owner of Company A and will sell out Trump for $50,000 a day, $350,000 a week, $1,500,000 a month.
We learned one more piece of information from the concurrence: This company has at least one office in the US. How much, I wonder, does that narrow down the list of suspect companies?
The most important line is lost at the end
“On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said it was lifting the order halting the fine.”
That is the news. So the fine is running at $50K/day against the company, and the Supreme Court has lifted its stay… that means (in effect) the petition will be rejected.
Whomever it is (Russia? Saudi Arabia) which owns the company with an american office, needs to either pay up fast or cough up the documents on their paid agent (“Individual 1”)
What great fun !
“The Supreme Court has upheld the fine. Now let them come collect it.”
Apparently, Vnesheconombank does have a Manhattan office, so they remain #1 on my suspect list.
Let the fine build for 274 years and trump will have his $5 billion dollars for his goddamned wall.
“Whoever it is,” not “whomever it is.”
Per the post, it is a bank. They will pay, otherwise they are going to get cut out of Swift… 
If they’re sanctioned under Magnitsky they’re already cut out of Swift.
If they’re sanctioned, what are they doing with a US office?
It could be a sequence of events thing, that they had the office before being sanctioned. But I now believe I was mistaken to reference Magnitsky, there don’t seem to be any instances of corporations being sanctioned under Magnitsky. I’m likely conflating it with some other type of sanction, such as those that were just lifted on Deripaska’s Rusal.
Yeah I certainly thought that they buried the lead there. I scrolled through the PDF looking for the SCOTUS order which seems like a bigger deal to me than the D.C. Circuit issuing another (?) opinion on the issue. SCOTUS lifting the stay is a vote of no confidence in the appeal.
From SCOTUSblog:
Just a few hours after the unnamed corporation appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices denied the company’s request to put the lower court’s order requiring it to provide the information or pay penalties on hold. The justices also vacated the temporary stay that Chief Justice John Roberts had imposed on December 23. There were no recorded dissents from the order, and no explanation for the ruling. However, one factor in the decision whether to grant such a request is whether there is a “reasonable probability” that at least four justices will vote to grant review, and another is whether there is a “fair prospect” that at least five justices will agree that the decision below was wrong. Taken together, these factors suggest that the unidentified corporation could face an uphill battle in getting the Supreme Court to take up its case and reverse the D.C. Circuit’s decision.
The Vnesheconombank @polysyllabic mentioned above has been sanctioned in the US since 2014, yet per polysyllabic does have a manhattan office. I guess they can have an office, so long as they don’t do any business with US persons.