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August 18, 2026
Alaska Airlines Inc. has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a class action accusing it of denying vacation accrual to pilots during qualifying military leaves, according to a Washington federal judge's preliminary approval order.
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August 17, 2026
One of Ukraine's largest banks has urged a D.C. federal judge not to pause its lawsuit seeking to enforce a $1.1 billion arbitral award against Russia, saying the country overstates a French court's doubts about the impartiality of one of the arbitrators in the dispute.
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August 17, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Friday ordered a Colombian government agency to face litigation to enforce a roughly $425 million arbitral award issued after a highway contract was scuttled over environmental concerns, while allowing the Colombian government to exit the case.
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August 17, 2026
Venezuela can't skirt a more than $25 million arbitral award issued to Air Canada, after a D.C. federal judge ruled that the country was adequately represented in the arbitration despite the tribunal allowing the administration of former President Nicolás Maduro to defend the case.
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August 17, 2026
A D.C. federal judge appeared unconvinced Monday that the Russian Federation could get an early out from a Ukrainian bank's suit to enforce a $1.1 billion arbitral award by claiming that the law of international armed conflict rendered expropriation protections in the nations' bilateral investment treaty toothless.
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August 17, 2026
Clifford Chance LLP wants a high-profile partner pay dispute sent to arbitration, accusing two ex-partners who claim they're facing a $6 million clawback demand of "gamesmanship" by filing suit in New York federal court.
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August 14, 2026
Amazon customers must now take most legal claims against the retail giant to binding arbitration, the company announced Friday, unveiling new conditions of use that also include a prohibition on users bringing proposed class actions.
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August 14, 2026
A subcontractor targeted in a $110 million racketeering suit over an alleged embezzlement scheme is urging a Florida federal court to sanction the Ecuadorian utility plaintiff, saying it's being used as a "scapegoat" to cover the utility's alleged role in two soured power plant construction projects.
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August 14, 2026
A Florida federal judge on Friday rejected a proposed class of private equity investors' emergency request to lift a mandated stay on their $150 million fraud suit and won't hand down a temporary restraining order that would've prevented the sale of infrastructure assets to major homebuilder D.R. Horton.
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August 14, 2026
An international tribunal has dismissed a former Ennia Group executive's claims against the Netherlands over the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten's 2018 intervention in the Curaçao insurance group, finding that he no longer held an interest in shares that could support his treaty claims and that his claimed salary and pension rights did not qualify as protected investments under a Netherlands-Lebanon investment treaty.
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August 14, 2026
Israeli-American 3D printing company Stratasys has won more than $2.7 million in arbitration after fending off a $440 million claim stemming from its acquisition of Origin Laboratories Inc., a developer of 3D printing software, according to documents made public Thursday.
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August 13, 2026
The Seventh Circuit rejected trading firm Jump Trading LLC's bid to arbitrate a putative securities class action Thursday, finding that courts, not arbitrators, must decide whether disputes belong in arbitration when the parties haven't signed an arbitration agreement, furthering a circuit split and holding that "Jump must litigate."
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August 13, 2026
Italian construction giant Webuild on Wednesday urged a Delaware federal court to pause a Chilean construction company's lawsuit aimed at enforcing a $140 million arbitral award as Webuild looks to challenge an "unprecedented" Third Circuit decision reviving the litigation.
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August 13, 2026
The White House identified Thursday over 40 countries from which imports carry a heightened risk of transshipment, an illegal practice of misrepresenting goods entering the U.S. that originate elsewhere such as China, and government officials are working on a new artificial intelligence enforcement tool to address those concerns.
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August 13, 2026
Fieldfisher has added corporate disputes attorney Benny Wünschmann as a partner in Berlin, launching a dispute resolution practice in the German capital as the firm continues to expand its European disputes team.
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August 12, 2026
An appeals court has affirmed an arbitral award issuing a Washington, D.C., law firm zero fees in connection with efforts by defense contractor Wye Oak Technology Inc. to enforce a $120 million judgment against Iraq, rejecting the firm's argument that an underlying fee deal was coerced.
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August 12, 2026
Yasmin Al Ameen of Foley Hoag LLP helps represent Gambia before the International Court of Justice in a historic case claiming Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya people, and she also represents Armenia against Azerbaijan before the ICJ, earning her a spot among the international arbitration practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 12, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday enforced an over $2 billion arbitral award issued to a satellite communications company, ruling for the first time that the legal concept that a dispute might be better heard elsewhere does not apply in cases seeking to enforce international arbitral awards.
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August 11, 2026
A D.C. federal judge Monday denied Spain's bid to pause efforts by a pair of European renewable energy investors to enforce a years-old confirmed $156.6 million arbitral award, instead giving the investors the green light to target Spain's assets in other U.S. jurisdictions.
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August 11, 2026
Jessica Beess und Chrostin of King & Spalding LLP helped secure a favorable outcome for Turkey in a $1 billion claim brought by Canadian mining company Alamos Gold over a nixed gold mining project, helping to land her among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2026
A Washington, D.C., federal court has no jurisdiction over a contract between the Argentine government and a British inspection company, Argentina said, looking to have the company's bid to confirm a $208 million arbitration award paused, if not entirely thrown out.
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August 11, 2026
An international arbitration tribunal has largely rejected Bahrain's preliminary objections to claims brought by an Iranian state-owned oil company's trading arm over funds held in Bahraini banks, finding the company did not abuse the arbitration process by moving its corporate home to Malaysia.
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August 10, 2026
A New York federal judge agreed Monday to toss fraud charges accusing Adani Group Chairman Gautam S. Adani of misleading investors about a $250 million bribery scheme to score solar energy contracts, while sharply criticizing the U.S. Department of Justice's "highly unusual" move to drop the case.
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August 10, 2026
A Dutch company contracted by a Louisiana golf course developer asked a federal judge Monday to send its dispute with the company to the Netherlands Arbitration Institute, arguing that the terms of their disagreement are clearly covered by the arbitration provision in their contract.
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August 10, 2026
Mexico has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take another look at the D.C. Circuit's opinion refusing to vacate a $47 million arbitral award issued to a Canadian lender, saying the justices need to establish a uniform standard to determine when a tribunal exceeded its powers.