The European Union and the U.S. have agreed on new terms to the trade agreement to eliminate EU tariffs on U.S. industrial products and implement a 15% U.S. tariff cap for most other sectors, according to a joint statement issued Thursday.
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EU, US Agree To Eliminate Industrial Tariffs

By Josh White

The European Union and the U.S. have agreed on new terms to the trade agreement to eliminate EU tariffs on U.S. industrial products and implement a 15% U.S. tariff cap for most other sectors, according to a joint statement issued Thursday.

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SEC Taps Military Judge To Head Enforcement Efforts

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday announced the appointment of a senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to lead its enforcement division.

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NY Appeals Court Throws Out Trump's $500M Fraud Penalty

By Phillip Bantz

A divided New York state appeals court panel on Thursday tossed a nearly $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump and his sons, companies and their executives, ruling that the fine was "excessive," but kept in place a judge's finding of liability.

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Home Depot's $5.5B GMS Deal Gets DOJ Clearance

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Justice has prematurely ended a waiting period that prevented Home Depot's $5.5 billion acquisition of building products distributor GMS Inc. from closing, a day before the home improvement retailer's Friday cash tender offer expiration date, Home Depot announced on Thursday.

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Amazon Must Yield To DOL Expense Subpoena, 9th Circ. Says

By Rachel Riley

Amazon has to comply with the U.S. Department of Labor's demands for data on travel reimbursements paid to supervisors sent to New York to dissuade warehouse workers from unionizing, a Ninth Circuit panel said on Thursday, concluding the information is germane to an agency probe of potential reporting violations.  

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FTC Warns Tech Cos. To Honor Data Vows In Foreign Dealings

By Allison Grande

The head of the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday cautioned Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon and other major tech companies to refrain from weakening data security protections or censoring content in response to pressure from foreign governments, reminding them that reneging on promises they make to U.S. consumers could land them in hot water with the agency.

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Brief

Biz Groups Appeal Calif. Climate Reporting Ruling To 9th Circ.

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have appealed a court order rejecting their bid to block new California state regulations requiring large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks that they claim violate their First Amendment rights.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Democratic Sen. Urges Trump Admin To Plan For Tariff Refunds

By Dylan Moroses

Senate Small Business Committee ranking member Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., sent a letter Thursday to agency leaders in President Donald Trump's administration requesting the government prepare a tariff refund plan in case federal courts strike down Trump's emergency tariffs.

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ENFORCEMENT

GTCR Deal A 'Smokescreen' For Coatings Merger, FTC Says

By Lauraann Wood

GTCR BC Holdings LLC's $627 million bid to buy the nation's largest medical device coatings company is a blatant attempt to overwhelmingly dominate an already highly concentrated market, and the "smokescreen" of a partial divestiture shouldn't convince anyone otherwise, the Federal Trade Commission told an Illinois federal judge Thursday.

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LITIGATION

Nikola SPAC, Related Settlements Reach $33.75M In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

A multi-court string of settlements has produced a $33.75 million proposed payout for stockholders who alleged in direct and derivative state and federal actions that they were misled in deals that took electric vehicle maker Nikola Corp. public.

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1st Circ. Rejects Flyers' $34M Fee Bid In JetBlue-Spirit Case

By Lauren Berg

Passengers who launched an antitrust challenge to the since-scrapped JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger are not eligible to collect up to $34 million in legal fees, the First Circuit ruled Thursday, finding that because the deal was blocked in a parallel government case, the passengers are not actually the prevailing parties.

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Google Got App Data Profits After Pledging Privacy, Jury Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

A computer scientist testifying in a multibillion-dollar privacy lawsuit alleging Google LLC illegally collected data from 98 million cellphone users who had opted out of tracking told a California federal jury Thursday that the tech giant stores information about their app use in a "shadow account" and uses it to sell ads.

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Perplexity AI Fails To Toss Or Transfer Publishers' IP Suit

By Elliot Weld

Perplexity AI Inc. on Thursday was denied a bid to dismiss a copyright infringement suit brought by the companies that publish The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post when a New York federal judge said the court has jurisdiction over Perplexity under the state's long-arm statute.

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CVS, Drugmakers Illegally Inflated Insulin Prices, City Claims

By Aaron Keller

Drugmakers Eli Lilly and Co., Novo Nordisk Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis US LLC, pharmacy benefit managers CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx, and others have been hit with civil racketeering and state unfair trade practices law claims by the city of Torrington, Connecticut, over an alleged scheme to inflate insulin prices.

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Snap Inc. Hit With Investor Suit Over Ad Platform Glitch

By Sydney Price

Snapchat's parent company, Snap Inc., was hit with a proposed shareholder class action Thursday in California federal court accusing it of concealing the effects of a glitch on its advertising auction system that caused it to lose revenue.

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Roblox Hit With New Accusations Of Child Safety Shortfalls

By Carla Baranauckas

The Roblox Corp. prioritized growth and profits over child safety, opening the door to sexual exploitation, a North Carolina mother claimed in the latest complaint the tech giant faces over alleged safety shortfalls. 

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NC Senator Says Whirlpool Rigged TED Talk For Ad Campaign

By Abigail Harrison

Sen. DeAndrea Salvador, a Norh Carolina Democrat, accused appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corp. of using manipulated portions of her old TED Talk on energy affordability to burnish its international ad campaign, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in North Carolina federal court.

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PEOPLE

Canadian Insurer Manulife Taps Ex-JPMorgan Atty As GC

By James Boyle

Manulife, a global insurance and investment firm based in Toronto, announced Thursday it found a replacement for its outgoing general counsel, naming to the post an attorney who previously served a leadership role in JPMorgan's legal department and was general counsel for the New York-based arm of Japan's largest bank.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Assessing Federal Securities Class Action Stats In '25 So Far

The settlement amount as a percentage of damages in securities class actions has continued to decline in the first half of 2025, a trend that may be important for assessing exposure and risk in future securities litigation, say analysts at Analysis Group.

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Divest Order Shows How Security Fears Extend CFIUS Scope

A recent White House order forcing a Chinese company to divest its 2020 acquisition of a U.S. audiovisual supplier demonstrates the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ growing power to sink foreign transactions over national security concerns — and the enormous risks to U.S. companies from such reviews, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

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Opinion

Sometimes Int'l Competition Should Trump Antitrust Concerns

The U.S. Justice Department's approval of HPE's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks shows that a merger that significantly enhances innovation and competitiveness may serve consumer and national interests despite marginally increasing industry concentration, says John Reeves at Reeves Law.

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Art Market Must Prepare For More AML Scrutiny

Calls for art market regulation continue to grow, as evidenced by a recently introduced bill that would subject it to the Bank Secrecy Act’s anti-money laundering requirements, so participants should consider adopting basic, risk-based controls, says Jane Levine at The ArtRisk Group.

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NY Tax Talk: ALJ Vacancy, Online Sales, Budget

Among the most notable developments in New York tax law last quarter, an administrative law judge vacancy continued affecting taxpayers, a state court decision tested the scope of the Interstate Income Act, and Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the 2025-2026 fiscal budget containing key tax-related provisions, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

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Opinion

Aviation Watch: Liability Lessons From 737 Max Blowout

The National Transportation Safety Board's recently released report on the 2024 door plug blowout on board a Boeing 737 Max airliner helps illuminate how a company's strategic mistakes can lead to flawed decision-making and supply chain oversight failures, ultimately increasing regulatory and legal exposure, says Alan Hoffman, a retired attorney and aviation expert.

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Series

Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump Admin To Appeal Susman Godfrey Exec Order Ruling

By Adrian Cruz

The Trump administration announced Friday its intention to appeal a June ruling that struck down as unconstitutional an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey LLP, after the court said the order was issued in retaliation for its representation of clients and causes the president opposes.

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State Solicitors General Become A Trump Judge Pipeline

By Courtney Bublé

Seven months into his presidency, more than a third of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees hailed from a pool not tapped nearly as much as his predecessors: state solicitors general.

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Analysis

Habba Ruling Could Put Tighter Limits On 'Acting' Officials

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling disqualifying Alina Habba from acting as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey has the potential to end a long-standing means of filling government posts without going through the U.S. Senate.

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Trump Names 4 Nominees For North Carolina Bench

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday night four judicial nominees in North Carolina.

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DOJ Investigation Of NY AG Condemned By AGs Of 21 States

By Bonnie Eslinger

A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday issued an open letter saying the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James and condemning the probe as political payback for the financial fraud claims she pursued against President Donald Trump and his New York-based businesses.

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Ex-Calif. Judge Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Court Staffer

By Jack Karp

A former California Superior Court judge has been charged with sexually assaulting a court employee and seeking to cover up that purported incident and another alleged assault, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

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Newman Given Potential Lifeline In Suspension Appeal Loss

By Ryan Davis

While the D.C. Circuit on Friday declined to revive Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's lawsuit challenging her suspension, experts said the court provided an opening for her to seek further review, by suggesting that the precedent limiting the arguments available to her may be flawed.

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Under Trump, White Collar Crypto Defense Gets New Playbook

By Phillip Bantz

White collar lawyers are crafting new blueprints for crypto-related civil and criminal defense amid the Trump administration's embrace of the industry and the financial world’s growing acceptance of cryptocurrency as a legitimate asset.

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Ex-Mother-In-Law Painted As Mastermind In FSU Prof's Death

By David Minsky

A Florida prosecutor on Friday described the former mother-in-law of a Florida State University law professor killed by hired assassins in 2014 as the mastermind behind his murder, telling jurors that she was motivated by the desire to have her grandchildren closer to Miami after her daughter's divorce. 

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Ohio Panel Says Med Mal Damages Cap Is Unconstitutional

By Y. Peter Kang

An Ohio appeals court has declared that the state's statutory limit on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional because it violated the right to due process to a patient who suffered a severe brain disorder.

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Ex-Morgan & Morgan Client Says Arbitration Ruling Was Error

By Emily Sawicki

A former Morgan & Morgan client is pushing back on an order sending his proposed class action malpractice claims into arbitration and denying a motion to remand the suit to state court, arguing that a Savannah, Georgia, federal judge erred in her ruling by misapplying the law and failing to take all facts into account.

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Probation Granted In Chandra Levy Prosecutor's Ethics Case

By Alison Knezevich

A D.C. Court of Appeals panel has sanctioned the lead prosecutor in the Chandra Levy murder case for failing to disclose evidence, but said she should not be suspended because "her misconduct was the result of a seemingly honest mistake."

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Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Weil, Fried Frank

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, private equity firm Thoma Bravo buys human resources software provider Dayforce Inc. in a take-private deal, Lowe's buys Foundation Building Materials, Nexstar Media Group Inc. acquires fellow media company Tegna Inc., and Soho House & Co. Inc. inks a take-private deal with hotel operator MCR.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen football manager Bruno Lage sue the owner of Olympique Lyonnais and Botafogo football clubs, luxury fashion brand Christian Dior Couture target a jewelry business trading under the same name, and a Russian motorsports promoter take action against Formula One after it canceled its Russian Grand Prix in 2022.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Large-company general counsel in a survey picked lawyers at Littler, Greenberg Traurig and McGuireWoods at the top of their all-star list for exceptional service. While talks continue, the EU and U.S. have agreed to new trade agreement terms that end EU tariffs on industrial products from the U.S.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Jackson Lewis PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit upheld injunctions barring the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX and two other companies.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

Akin Gump

Andrews & Springer

Baker & Hostetler

Barnes & Thornburg

Baron & Budd

Bartlit Beck

Bass Berry

Berger Montague

Bird Marella

Boies Schiller

Bradley Arant

Browne Jacobson LLP

Buchalter APC

Butcher & Barlow

Byrne & Nixon

Carl Taylor Law

Casey Gerry

Cleary Gottlieb

Clyde & Co

Cohen Milstein

Colley Shroyer

Connolly Gallagher

Continental PLLC

Cooch & Taylor

Cooley LLP

Cotchett Pitre

Covington & Burling

DLA Piper

David Boies

Devonshires Solicitors

Dolman Law Group

Dorsey & Whitney

Edwin Coe

Eversheds Sutherland

Faegre Drinker

Farella Braun

Freshfields

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

HSF Kramer

Habba Madaio

Hill Dickinson

Holmes Athey

Hunton Andrews

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Johnson Fistel

Jones Day

Kaiser PLLC

Kirkland & Ellis

Kozyak Tropin

Kramon & Graham

Larson LLP

Latham & Watkins

Levi & Korsinsky

Levin Papantonio

Lewis Brisbois

Lewis Silkin

Littler Mendelson

McGuireWoods

McHattie Law Firm

Meritz Reddy

Milbank LLP

Miller Shah

Mintz & Gold

Morgan & Morgan

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Murphy Pearson

Nelson Mullins

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pinsent Masons

Powell Gilbert

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reminger Co.

Robbins LLP

Robert & Robert PLLC

Savage Turner

Schubert Jonckheer

Seeger Weiss

Seyfarth Shaw

Skadden Arps

Susman Godfrey

TLT LLP

TWM Solicitors

Taylor Wessing

Torridon Law

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

Weil Gotshal

Wiggin LLP

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Young Conaway

deLeeuw Law

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abercrombie & Kent

Aetna Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Economic Liberties Project

American Farm Bureau Federation Inc.

American Securities LLC

Analysis Group Inc.

Apple Inc.

Avison Young Inc.

Aviva SA

BTI Consulting Group Inc.

Bank Policy Institute

Barclays PLC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Black Hills Corporation

Boston College

Burford Capital LLC

CVS Health Corp.

Cable News Network Inc.

California Chamber of Commerce

Cantor Fitzgerald LP

Cato Institute

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V.

Christian Dior SA

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cloudflare Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

CorMedix Inc.

Covestro AG

Croda International PLC

DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc.

Dayforce Inc.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Discord Inc.

Dow Jones & Co.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Energy Transfer LP

Entain PLC

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Fordham University

Foundation Building Materials

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

GoDaddy Inc.

Google LLC

Gresham Investment Management LLC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

Incyte Corp.

Integer Holdings Corp.

Investments Ltd.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Juniper Networks Inc.

Ladbrokes PLC

LegalZoom.com Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Lowe's Cos. Inc.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Manulife Financial Corp.

Medco Health Solutions Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Methodist Hospital System

Microsoft Corp.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.

National Association of Attorneys General

Nationwide Building Society

New Civil Liberties Alliance

New York Post

News Corp.

Nexstar Media Group Inc.

Nikola Corp.

NorthWestern Energy Group Inc.

Novo Nordisk A S

Omnicom Group Inc.

Optum Inc.

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Paramount Global

Persuasion Strategies

Roblox Corp.

SRS Distribution Inc.

Sanmina Corp.

Sanofi

Skydance Media LLC

Snap Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.

Spirit Airlines Inc.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Tegna Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Cigna Group

The District of Columbia Bar

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Home Depot Inc.

The Motley Fool LLC

Thoma Bravo LLC

Trump Organization Inc.

Twitter Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

University of Virginia

Venmo LLC

Vimeo Inc.

Viterra

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Wayfair LLC

Whirlpool Corp.

Wilmington Trust Corp.

X Corp.

Yale University

YouTube Inc.

Zinc Health Services LLC

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Land Management

California Air Resources Board

Central Intelligence Agency

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Congressional Research Service

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Housing Finance Agency

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

International Trade Commission

Judicial Conference of the United States

Miami International Airport

Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida

Minnesota Attorney General's Office

Multistate Tax Commission

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Labor Relations Board

National Security Agency

National Transportation Safety Board

New York Attorney General's Office

New York City Department of Finance

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Ohio Supreme Court

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Republican Attorneys General Association

Small Business Administration

Tennessee Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Washington Attorney General's Office