U.S. District Court Rules Freeze against Charity Violates Due Process Rights

On August 18, 2009, U.S. District Judge James Carr issued a sweeping order, declaring the U.S. Treasury and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) wrongly froze the assets of an Ohio-based charity in 2006 it suspected of having links to the Islamic group Hamas because it acted without giving the organization proper notice either before or after the freeze and deprived it of due process...(more)