Analysis

3 Questions After Justices Sink Trump's Emergency Tariffs

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act are unlawful left open questions for practitioners, including how importers may qualify and claim refunds for the illegal duties paid. Here, Law360 examines three open questions following the justices' ruling.

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Tesla Moves To Claw Back $7M, $10M Interest In Fee Fight

By Jarek Rutz

Tesla Inc. has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to force the lawyers who secured a massive derivative settlement over board pay to return more than $7 million in allegedly withheld fees and pay over $10 million in interest, arguing that they are defying a recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling that slashed their award.

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Jury Finds Co-Investors Breached Oil Terminal Project Deal

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas business court jury on Friday sided with an investor who alleged he was almost edged out of a lucrative oil terminal project, deciding that his co-investors flouted the parties' contract.

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Up Next At High Court: Cuban Seizures & Removal Deadlines

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its February oral argument session by hearing cases that could expand or limit the availability of damages for U.S. victims of property seized by the Cuban government and a defendant's chance to remove state court cases to federal court.

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US, Indonesia Sign Trade Deal Cutting Tariffs Both Ways

By Jack McLoone

President Donald Trump's administration and the government of Indonesia have finalized a trade deal in which the Southeast Asian country will eliminate nearly all of its tariffs against U.S. imports in exchange for a 19% tariff rate on Indonesian imports, with substantial carveouts.

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Groups Fight Trump Arctic Drilling Plan Over Wildlife Risks

By Ganesh Setty

Alaskan natives and environmental organizations urged an Alaska federal court to block the Trump administration's expansion of oil and gas development in the country's largest single piece of public land, arguing it hasn't satisfied procedural requirements meant to protect wildlife.

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Carpatsky Seeks Baker Hughes Docs In $150M Award Row

By Joyce Hanson

Carpatsky Petroleum Corp. asked a Texas federal court Friday to order energy giant Baker Hughes to respond to its document requests as it looks to enforce a $150 million arbitral award against Ukraine's largest oil company, OJSC Ukrnafta.

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Wash. Man Admits To Role In $100M Oil Investor Crypto Con

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state man has admitted to conspiracy to commit money laundering in a scheme that federal prosecutors say cheated victims out of nearly $100 million that they were told was going to oil and gas investments but was instead routed to co-conspirators' accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.

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Drilling Co. Accused Of Shorting Workers On Overtime

By Benjamin Morse

A drilling services company stiffs employees on wages by requiring off-the-clock work, rounding their hours and miscalculating overtime, a worker alleged in a proposed collective action filed in Utah federal court.

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PacifiCorp To Pay Feds $575M Over Calif., Oregon Wildfires

By Bonnie Eslinger

Electric power company PacifiCorp has agreed to pay $575 million to resolve claims for damages related to wildfires in Oregon and Northern California, the federal government announced Friday in declaring the end to litigation it said was worth more than $900 million.

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Siemens Seeks $2.2M From US Army Over Canceled Contract

By Elaine Briseño

Siemens Government Technologies Inc. has accused the U.S. Army of deciding not to issue the company an energy-saving task order to avoid paying for the $2.2 million in preliminary work the agency instructed the contractor to perform.

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ChargePoint Beats Shareholder Suit Over Supply Chain Issues

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge on Friday tossed, with leave to amend, a securities class action accusing ChargePoint Holdings and its top brass of misleading investors about the company's supply chain management, revenue growth and inventory value, finding the suit pleads contradictory facts and inactionable statements.

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Monetizing EV Charging Stations For Long-Term Success

An electric vehicle charging station's longevity hinges on monetizing operations through diverse revenue streams, contractual documentation of charge point operators' and site hosts' rights and responsibilities, and ensuring reliability and security of facilities, says Levi McAllister at Morgan Lewis.

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Clearing US Legal Hurdles To Biz Opportunities In Venezuela

Companies evaluating foreign investment or activity in Venezuela given the U.S. government's recently announced plans to reinvigorate its natural resources should take specific steps to minimize risks connected to interactions with restricted parties given the web of U.S. counterterrorism, anticorruption and sanctions controls, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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Calif.'s Civility Push Shows Why Professionalism Is Vital

The California Bar’s campaign against discourteous behavior by attorneys, including a newly required annual civility oath, reflects a growing concern among states that professionalism in law needs shoring up — and recognizes that maintaining composure even when stressed is key to both succeeding professionally and maintaining faith in the legal system, says Lucy Wang at Hinshaw.

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McGlinchey Stafford Files Ch. 7 With Over $10M In Liabilities

By Lauren Berg

New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, which announced last month that it's winding down operations after more than half a century, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with more than $10 million in liabilities owed to former staff and attorneys, workplace vendors, financial institutions and other creditors.

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Judge Nixes DOJ Fine In ICE Case, But Blasts 'Radio Silence'

By Hailey Konnath

A Minnesota federal judge said Friday that a U.S. Department of Justice attorney won't be fined after an immigrant's identification documents were finally returned to him, yet she tore into the DOJ's excuses and said she will "not tolerate what happened here: disobedience and radio silence from the government."

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Analysis

Deportation Policy Pushes Texas Federal Bench To The Brink

By Courtney Bublé

Texas has suffered through a shortage of judges for its federal courts for a while now, but the recent influx of immigration cases is pushing the system to the brink.

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Michigan Federal Judge Faces State's 'Super Drunk' Charge

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Michigan federal judge facing trial on drunken driving charges crashed his car on the night he was arrested, registered a 0.27% blood alcohol level and told a state trooper who asked him to recite the alphabet, "A, B, C, D, F, U," according to a police report recently made public.

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Boies Schiller Partner Faces Possible Sanctions For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner must explain why he should not face monetary sanctions for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors amid his representation of women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Danny Masterson's sexual assaults.

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Epstein's Advisers Ink $35M Deal With Sex Trafficking Victims

By Katryna Perera

A class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first OK in a settlement reached with Epstein's lawyer and accountant, who allegedly aided him in the scheme.

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Va. Judges Name New US Atty, But Blanche Says 'You're Fired'

By Lauren Berg

The federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday unanimously appointed veteran litigator James W. Hundley to serve as interim U.S. attorney, a decision immediately met with derision from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who purported to fire Hundley in a social media post.

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Class Attys Allege Lead Counsel Is Hoarding $75M Sutter Fees

By Dorothy Atkins

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP has urged a California federal magistrate judge to enforce the $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million deal resolving a decade-long antitrust fight, arguing lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP "unilaterally" and "arbitrarily" cut SWCK's fees by nearly $800,000 while boosting its own.

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Beasley Allen Can't Pause NJ Talc DQ Order, Judge Rules

By George Woolston

The Beasley Allen Law Firm can't delay an order disqualifying it from representing hundreds of women who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder while it seeks review from the New Jersey Supreme Court, a state judge ruled on Friday.

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Fake Attys, Judges, Hearings: DOJ Alleges Immigration Scam

By Hailey Konnath

A group of Colombian immigrants scammed clients out of $100,000 by pretending to be immigration lawyers at a fake firm and orchestrating phony hearings in which they pretended to be judges and federal agents, complete with fake judicial robes and uniforms, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday.

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6th Circ. Chief Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Chief Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton announced on Friday that he will take senior status on Oct. 1 after more than 20 years on the bench.

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Judiciary Preps Training On National Injunction Limits

By Courtney Bublé

Seven months after the budget reconciliation bill was enacted, the federal judiciary is making progress on the provisions to rein in what Republicans deem abuse of nationwide injunctions targeting the Trump administration's initiatives.

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Analysis

Valve's Anti-Troll Law Win Could Open New Doors

By Dani Kass

The first jury verdict in the U.S. finding a patent owner violated state law meant to curb bad faith patent suits had unique circumstances that will be hard to repeat, but attorneys say Tuesday's decision still has them considering the little-used laws more closely.

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Florida AG Defends $100K Teaching Side Gig Amid Scrutiny

By Jake Maher

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been on defense amid scrutiny over a reported $100,000-per-year teaching gig at the University of Florida law school, just as he sought to roll out a new anti-corruption unit.

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Attys Regret Unnoticed ChatGPT Errors In Conn. Court Filings

By Tracey Read

Attorneys ordered to explain errors in two January Connecticut Supreme Court briefs said ChatGPT altered legal arguments that counsel did not notice when they asked the artificial intelligence software to help limit duplicate passages, meet word count rules and format the filings.

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Brief

2nd NJ Defendant Joins Bid To Disqualify US Atty Leadership

By Carla Baranauckas

A second defendant in a New Jersey federal criminal case on Friday joined a pending bid to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, escalating a constitutional challenge to the office's leadership structure.

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Beltway Moves: Baker McKenzie, Armstrong & Bradylyons

By Alison Knezevich

The deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division returned to Baker McKenzie, while two former DOJ fraud prosecutors launched a new white collar boutique, in some of the latest legal industry happenings in Washington, D.C.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

The last week in London saw the founders of Getir sue investment fund Mubadala for more than $700 million tied to alleged breaches during the company's restructuring, the Welsh Rugby Union face a claim by Swansea Council over a proposed takeover of Cardiff Rugby, and Euro Car Parks target the Competition and Markets Authority after it was fined by the watchdog. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Several pension funds in New York City sued AT&T, alleging the illegal exclusion of their shareholder proposal requesting a corporate diversity report from the telecom giant's corporate ballot. In the meantime, the DOJ said the Trump administration is investigating federal contractors and grant recipients for potentially engaging in discrimination, rather than for their DEI programs. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Wigdor LLP and Elefterakis Elefterakis & Panek lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal judge denied the NFL's bid to force a class of National Football League coaches into arbitration.

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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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