Trade Court Orders Redo Of Mexican Steel Duty Rate

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce must recalculate the antidumping duty rate for corrosion-resistant steel products produced by a Mexican company without applying certain adverse facts, the U.S. Court of International Trade said, calling the previous calculation "unreasonable."

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Trade Court Takes Issue With Qatar Melamine Duty Calculation

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce must reconsider its calculation of a nearly 42% countervailing duty rate for a Qatari producer of melamine, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Monday, citing issues with the valuation of certain utility and land rights subsidies.

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FTX's $1.8B Clawback Suit Against Binance, Zhao Can Proceed

By Sarah Jarvis

A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge has allowed FTX's bankruptcy estate to continue to try to claw back a $1.76 billion payment to the cryptocurrency platform though she trimmed certain claims.

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Commerce Orders Duties On Korean Chemical Imports

By Jack McLoone

Certain monomers and oligomers imported into the U.S. from South Korea will be tagged with antidumping duties following an order by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Monday.

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Amex Bracing For Enforcement Action Amid AML Scrutiny

By Jon Hill

American Express Co. may face regulatory fines over its anti-money-laundering compliance programs and has been working to "identify and remediate deficiencies" in them, according to its latest public investor disclosures.

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NY AG Says States Must Have Power To Police Crypto, Ethics

By Aislinn Keely

New York Attorney General Letitia James called on federal lawmakers Monday to amend a pending proposal to regulate crypto markets to give states more latitude to protect consumers, go after scammers and hold government officials like the president accountable for profiting from the industry.

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Installer Sues Canadian Solar After He's Crushed By Panels

By Mike Curley

A Washington man who owns a solar component contractor is suing Canadian Solar Inc. and its affiliates in federal court, alleging poor packaging caused 1,800 pounds of solar panels to fall over and crush him.

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NASCAR Says It's 'Overwhelmed' By 'Mass Counterfeiting'

By Hayley Fowler

NASCAR is cracking down on counterfeit merchandise in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in North Carolina that seeks to block an alleged network of foreign retailers from selling knockoff clothing and collectibles through online marketplaces, social media platforms and search engines like Google.

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Oryx Says Constellis' Fee Bid Appears Hallucination-Based

By Tom Lotshaw

An Afghanistan camp operator asked a Virginia federal judge to throw out counterclaims brought by defense contractors it sued, asserting that one seeking costs and fees appears to be based on hallucinated language not found in cited agreements.

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Egyptian Travel Firm Sues Iraq For Nearly $1B Arbitral Award

By Jared Foretek

An Egyptian travel company has asked a Washington federal judge to enforce a $786 million arbitral award it won against Iraqi Airways and the Republic of Iraq itself, after a Cairo tribunal found the airline breached a 2001 exclusive agency contract when it terminated the deal following the U.S. invasion.

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Arnold & Porter Hires King & Spalding ITC-Focused Atty

By Jack Rodgers

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has hired a King & Spalding LLP partner in Washington, D.C., who will continue his intellectual property work focused on the cross-border aspects of technology and life sciences disputes, the firm announced Monday.

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USDA, Treasury Moves May Widen Agricultural Deal Scrutiny

Two agency actions that identify weaknesses in the government’s foreign investment screening architecture signal a broadening of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ jurisdiction over agricultural real estate transactions, more demanding beneficial-ownership resolutions and the coming integration of agency disclosure systems, says researcher Robert Green.

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From Order To Regulation: How EOs Are Reshaping Banking

The pattern of regulatory activity emerging in the wake of the Trump administration's first 18 months of executive orders makes clear that financial institutions should treat presidential directives as early warning signs and not wait for final rules to assess the accompanying compliance impact, says Jonathan Kolodziej at Bradley.

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Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

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Milbank Issues Bonuses To Associates, Special Counsel

By Andrea Keckley

Milbank LLP is continuing to lead the way on bonuses, confirming Monday it has issued a round of special bonuses ranging from $6,000 for the class of 2026 and 2025 associates to $25,000 for the class of 2021 associates and beyond.

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Cooley Owes $25.4M Judgment To NJ Biotech Co. Founder

By Brian Steele

A New Jersey state court on Monday entered a $25.4 million judgment against Cooley LLP after a jury found the multinational firm had committed malpractice in its representation of a biotech founder who said his own lawyers assisted in shoving him out of his company.

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ABA Says Feds' Susman Godfrey DQ Bid Is More Intimidation

By Lauren Berg

The American Bar Association on Monday urged the D.C. federal judge overseeing its lawsuit challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms to reject the Trump administration's bid to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, calling it the latest "effort to intimidate" the American legal profession.

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Quinn Emanuel's Ethics Training 'Promising,' Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Monday approved a court-ordered ethics training program prepared by Quinn Emanuel in the wake of misrepresentations the firm made concerning an expert in a false advertising suit brought by Guardant Health against its client Natera, saying the firm had designed an "extremely promising" eight-hour program.

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Simpson Thacher Atty Says Patriot Nat'l Founder Sank Co.

By Madison Arnold

A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.

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300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley and Daniel Moritz-Rabson

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

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Comey Says Seashell Post No Threat To Trump

By Abigail Harrison

Former FBI Director James Comey urged a North Carolina federal court Monday to dismiss an indictment stemming from a social media post he made last year, arguing the post doesn't constitute a "true threat" to President Donald Trump.

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