Analysis

Takeaways From US-India Interim Trade Deal

By Dylan Moroses

Trade tensions between the U.S. and India have cooled off after a deal to reduce U.S. tariffs was reached this month, but questions remain about how the interim agreement will materialize and influence future negotiations. Here, Law360 examines several takeaways from the interim deal and efforts toward a broader deal arrangement.

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CIT Orders Reconsideration Of Fujifilm Co.'s Industry Status

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission must redo its determination that a U.S. subsidiary of Fujifilm qualifies as a domestic producer for purposes of finding domestic industry has been harmed by imports from Japan and China, the U.S. Court of International Trade said.

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Delta, Aeromexico Urge 11th Circ. To Void DOT Split Order

By Linda Chiem

Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico urged the Eleventh Circuit to void a U.S. Department of Transportation order directing them to dismantle their joint venture, saying the agency had offered contrived reasoning and scant evidence for purported anticompetitive effects.

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Brief

Commerce Orders Duties On Paper Folders From Cambodia

By Jack McLoone

Paper file folders imported into the U.S. from Cambodia will be subject to a countervailing duty order following affirmative determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce that these imports are benefiting from harmful subsidies and damaging U.S. domestic industry, Commerce said Thursday.

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Brief

US Trade Deficit Dipped To $901B In 2025

By Jack McLoone

The overall U.S. trade deficit shrunk by roughly $2 billion, to $901 billion, in 2025, with a 2.1% increase in the goods deficit being somewhat balanced out by a nearly 9% increase in the services surplus, the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday.

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ITC Says Indian Springs Harm US Industry, Duties Coming

By Jack McLoone

Garage door springs imported from India to the U.S. will be hit with antidumping and countervailing duty orders after the U.S. International Trade Commission said Thursday they are causing material harm to U.S. domestic industry.

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Judge Hesitant To DQ Prosecutor In Fla. Foreign Agent Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge seemed hesitant Thursday to disqualify a federal prosecutor in the criminal case against a former Florida congressman and a lobbyist accused of failing to register as foreign agents for Venezuela but chided the U.S. Attorney's Office for not providing more information to rebut the bias accusations and "put this to rest."

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Texas AG Launches Latest Suit Over Temu Data, China Ties

By Hailey Konnath

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday accused online bargain app Temu of secretly stealing customer data and exposing it to the Chinese Communist Party, calling it "spyware disguised as a shopping app" in a suit filed in federal court.

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Cisco Warns Justices Of 'Serious Risks' In China Torture Case

By Y. Peter Kang

Cisco has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to toss a suit alleging that the tech company aided the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful torture of Falun Gong members, saying a green light would pose "serious risks" to foreign relations and foreign policy.

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NY Judge Rejects 1st Amendment Challenge In FARA Case

By Ganesh Setty

A New York federal court refused to toss an indictment accusing an ex-Central Intelligence Agency analyst of aiding the South Korean government without proper registration, rejecting her position that criminal enforcement under the Foreign Agents Registration Act chills protected speech.

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Car Sensor Co. Can't Shed Investors' Post-IPO Margins Suit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Chinese autonomous-vehicle sensor maker Hesai Group must face proposed class action claims that its investors were blindsided by a "massive" decline in gross margins the company reported on the heels of its February 2023 initial public offering.

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FERC Won't Restore Ban On Pipeline Work During Appeals

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday stood by its elimination of a rule barring construction activities on gas infrastructure projects when approvals are being challenged, saying that burgeoning U.S. energy demand justifies the move.

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Squire Patton Boggs Hires K&L Gates Trade Atty In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Squire Patton Boggs LLP has hired a K&L Gates LLP trade partner who focuses his practice on economic sanctions matters, export controls, national security reviews and maritime law, the firm announced Thursday.

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US-Ukraine Reconstruction Fund Tax Exemptions Uncertain

Tax provisions in the bilateral agreement to establish the U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, which recently announced it is accepting applications, are so broad and imprecise as to leave uncertainty regarding whether and when tax exemptions will apply to investors' income, say attorneys at Avellum and Debevoise.

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Series

Trivia Competition Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing trivia taught me to quickly absorb information and recognize when I've learned what I'm expected to know, training me in the crucial skills needed to be a good attorney, and reminding me to be gracious in defeat, says Jonah Knobler at Patterson Belknap.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 35 Ballard Spahr Attys, 3 Offices

By Tracey Read

Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday that it has added all 35 public finance lawyers from Ballard Spahr LLP to its government services and finance department in multiple locations around the country, including three new markets in Baltimore, Denver and Phoenix.

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DOJ Atty Fined $500 A Day Over Withheld ICE Detainee ID

By Hailey Konnath

A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer to pay $500 a day until an immigrant recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention gets his identification documents returned, according to the case docket.

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8th Circ. Pick Joins List Of Personal Attys Elevated By Trump

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's latest appellate pick has served as the president's personal attorney and bills himself as "an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values" on his LinkedIn profile.

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Analysis

Attys React To Test Of Free Speech At Winter Olympics

By David Steele

The Winter Olympics in Milan have delivered the expected drama of national and individual success and defeat, but for sports law experts, one Ukrainian athlete's expulsion stood as a test of the rules governing political protest and personal expression.

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No Verdict Thursday In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial broke for the weekend on Thursday without reaching a verdict.

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Disqualification Bids Mount For Trio Leading NJ US Atty Office

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey criminal defendant who previously challenged the legality of former interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's appointment has now moved to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the office, aligning himself with a growing bloc of defendants saying the leadership structure violates federal appointment laws.

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Del. Chancery Court Saw Record Number Of Filings In 2025

By Rose Krebs

Delaware's nationally important Chancery Court saw a record number of case filings in 2025 and has relied on the state's Superior Court to help ease its judges' caseload, the First State's chief justice told legislators on Thursday.

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Doc Fight Delays Trial In $22M McCarter & English Loan Suit

By Brian Steele

The delayed disclosure of thousands of documents has created "a lot of prejudice" against McCarter & English as it fights a $22.5 million professional malpractice lawsuit, and the impending trial must be pushed back again, a Connecticut state judge said Thursday.

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Ill. Justices Face Judge's Suit Over Removal For MAGA Op-Ed

By Emily Sawicki

A retired Illinois state judge who had published a MAGA-leaning opinion column, then was temporarily reinstated to the bench amid a judge shortage, has sued the justices of the state Supreme Court, alleging they deprived him of due process in ordering his removal.

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