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July 17, 2026
A Petrobras-managed Dutch consortium is seeking more than $700,000 in fees from a group of Brazilian entities and their counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP following their unsuccessful attempt to vacate a $76.1 million arbitral award issued in a long-running offshore oil dispute.
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July 17, 2026
A North Carolina plaintiffs firm facing a lawsuit alleging unwanted calls were made to those on the National Do Not Call Registry says a marketing company should be on the hook for damages, urging a federal court not to allow the vendor to hide behind a predecessor's bankruptcy.
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July 17, 2026
The D.C. Circuit has upheld the maximum prison sentence handed down in the case of an IRS contractor who pled guilty to leaking President Donald Trump's tax returns, along with thousands of others, ruling Friday that the punishment was "reasonable."
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July 17, 2026
The Seventh Circuit has admonished but declined to sanction an attorney for a brief that included what a judge called "an astonishing number of erroneous and even hallucinated citations."
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July 17, 2026
A federal judge in Michigan, appointed by President Donald Trump, called out the government for its apparent use of artificial intelligence to cite "nonexistent case law."
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