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May 12, 2026
Federal prosecutors accused the management company and a supervisor of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024 of recklessly operating the ship, forging inspection documents and misleading safety investigators, according to a Maryland federal grand jury's criminal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
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May 11, 2026
President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Federal Circuit to block the U.S. Court of International Trade's order last week deeming his temporary global 10% tariffs unlawful, arguing the trade court misinterpreted the legislative history of the Trade Act.
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May 11, 2026
The mayor of Arcadia, California, agreed to plead guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China by operating a website that seemingly provided news for the local Chinese American community while spreading the Chinese government's propaganda, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
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May 11, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday upheld a decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission barring imports of some Tineco wet-dry vacuums found to infringe Bissell patents, while clearing redesigned products, as arguments by both sides challenging those findings fell flat.
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May 11, 2026
A Chinese "internet of things" provider says it's been unlawfully and incorrectly designated as a "Chinese military company" despite having no connection to the Chinese military, according to a suit filed in D.C. federal court Monday.
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May 11, 2026
Former Florida Congressman David Rivera, who was found guilty this month of failing to register as a foreign agent, is now facing a nearly $1.4 million sanction in New York, where the U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state-owned oil company sued his consulting firm over a $50 million agreement that fell apart.
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May 11, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission said Monday it will investigate whether a chemical imported from China used in rubber production that is allegedly being sold at unfair prices is harming U.S. domestic industry.
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May 11, 2026
The U.K. government sanctioned on Monday 85 individuals and companies linked to Russia's "abhorrent" forced deportation and militarization of Ukrainian children and interference with Armenian elections.
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May 08, 2026
The Endocrine Society has convinced a D.C. federal judge that the Federal Trade Commission's motivation for targeting it with a subpoena was likely retaliation for the guidelines the nonprofit produced regarding gender-affirming care.
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May 08, 2026
Venezuela's state-owned oil company is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit a D.C. Circuit opinion ordering the company to face long-pending allegations of unlawfully seizing an Oklahoma-based oil drilling company's rigs, arguing the ruling upends decades of precedent on the act of state doctrine.
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May 08, 2026
Poland has asked the D.C. Circuit to affirm a lower court's decision denying confirmation of Mercuria Energy Group's annulled $40 million arbitral award, saying the Cypriot commodities trading firm's disappointment with the annulment doesn't mean the appeals court should deviate from controlling precedent.
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May 08, 2026
A group of Nike customers on Friday joined the growing number of proposed class actions looking to secure legal rights to refunds of costs tied to President Donald Trump's now-invalidated global tariff regime, saying they were the ones who actually bore the costs.
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May 08, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration on Friday appealed the U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling deeming his temporary global tariff unlawful to the Federal Circuit, where judges may view the executive action with more deference than the measures it immediately replaced.
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May 08, 2026
Communal video streaming app Rave has filed five separate lawsuits against Apple, including in a New Jersey federal court, accusing the technology giant of booting it from iPhones and Macs under pretextual claims of fraud and spreading malware, which the app says were invoked to protect Apple's SharePlay and its iPhone monopoly.
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May 08, 2026
The IRS should issue more guidance on what kind of debt arrangements can limit a development project's access to clean energy tax credits under new prohibited foreign entity requirements as uncertainty over financial liability and ownership becomes a major market concern, practitioners said Friday.
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May 08, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission has issued a limited exclusion order barring the importation of semiconductors made by Innoscience prior to an approved redesign, terminating an investigation that was started at the behest of a rival.
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May 08, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel on Friday largely let attorneys do the talking while attempting to suss out whether the U.S. Department of Commerce properly justified blocking the country's largest vegetable canner from securing tariff exclusions for its imported tin.
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May 08, 2026
The European Union's highest court has maintained sanctions against the widow of Mohammed Makhlouf, the uncle of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as it upheld findings that her family exercised direct influence over the Assad regime.
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May 07, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission's proposed rule to require disclosure of litigation funding in intellectual property cases could bring more transparency to disputes and promote settlements, but it could also discourage some suits if it's not carefully tailored, attorneys say.
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May 07, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice is correct that having a patent included in a standard does not necessarily give the patentholder market power, Netlist said in defending itself against Samsung's lawsuit accusing it of exploiting a standard-setting process.
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May 07, 2026
The receiver overseeing The Traders Domain, a brokerage accused by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of orchestrating a $283 million scheme, pushed Thursday for sanctions against a commodities trader accused of funding a lavish lifestyle with $3.4 million from an entity that is supposed to be part of the receivership.
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May 07, 2026
President Donald Trump's temporary global 10% tariffs are unlawful because the narrow set of economic conditions required for the measure to be imposed were not met, the U.S. Court of International Trade said Thursday in a divided opinion.
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May 07, 2026
While a World Trade Organization committee said it "welcomed the transparency" of the U.S. for submitting official notice of President Donald Trump's temporary 10% global ad valorem tariff, some members have expressed concerns about the effects it could have on global trade.
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May 07, 2026
The top Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee sent letters to major Wall Street firms Thursday about their activity in buying the rights to importers' tariff refund interests at a discount following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in February striking down President Donald Trump's emergency tariff regime.
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May 07, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade improperly restrained the Commerce Department's discretion to determine countervailable subsidies during a South Korean exporter's administrative review, U.S. steel giant Nucor Corp. told the Federal Circuit on Thursday.