Home Depot, Others Fight Bid To Merge Tariff Refund Suits

By Jack McLoone

Home Depot said it opposed combining every proposed customer class action over increased costs from tariffs into multidistrict litigation, claiming there are too many economic differences between the suits. 

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Canada, China OK 2-Year Preferential Trade Extension

By Dylan Moroses

Canadian exports of peas, canola, lobsters and crabs will continue to benefit from an extended preferential market access deal with China, Canada's international trade minister has announced.

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ITC Issues Fish Tape Import Ban Against Milwaukee Electric

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. International Trade Commission has issued an import ban on glow fish tape sold by Milwaukee Electric Tool, following an administrative law judge's decision earlier this year that cleared the company of claims alleging it infringed Klein Tools' patents but found Milwaukee's safety helmet system was violating another Klein patent.

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Brief

Chinese Rubber Chemical Facing 285% US Antidumping Duty

By Jack McLoone

Imports of a chemical from China primarily used in rubber production are facing a possible major antidumping duty after the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday preliminarily found the chemical is being sold at less than fair value.

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Brief

US Finalizes Duty Evasion Findings For Cambodian Hangers

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday finalized its findings that steel wire clothes hangers completed in Cambodia using components from China or Vietnam are circumventing duties on those products from the two countries.

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Google Looks To Nix Foreign Developers' Play Store Claims

By Matthew Perlman

Google told a California federal court that foreign developers cannot bring antitrust claims targeting allegedly inflated Play Store fees because any harm felt would be in their home countries, not in the U.S.

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Series

Open-Water Swimming Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Swimming long distances in open waters is not necessarily an escape from my intellectual property practice, but a complementary discipline that similarly rewards sustained attention, intellectual curiosity, resilience and the ability to pursue a distant objective without losing command of the immediate task, says Christina MacDougall at Morgan Lewis.

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Controversial DOJ Civil Rights Division Leader Steps Down

By Alison Knezevich

Harmeet K. Dhillon, a U.S. Department of Justice official who instituted dramatic changes as leader of the Civil Rights Division, has stepped down from her role.

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Sullivan & Cromwell Brings On Weil Capital Markets Leader

By Isaac Monterose

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's capital markets team for a capital markets partner role in its New York City office, the firm announced Thursday.

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Analysis

Racing Against Whistleblowers Could Cost Companies

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice's new cash rewards program for tips on criminal fraud threatens to ramp up the pressure on companies to hurry internal investigations and quickly report suspected misconduct to the government before whistleblowers do, which could backfire in some cases, according to experts.

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Judge Albright's Do's And Don'ts For Patent Trials

By Dani Kass

Two months after former ​U.S. District Judge Alan Albright returned to private practice, he regaled a room of attorneys at the University of Texas School of Law on Thursday with lessons from his time on the bench.

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Trump's Hush Money Conviction Examined By Wary NY Panel

By Frank G. Runyeon

A New York State appellate court Thursday quizzed attorneys for President Donald Trump and state prosecutors over his hush-money conviction, exploring defense counsel's claims that the district attorney trespassed into federal jurisdiction by charging election violations and trampled on presidential immunity in a case "infected with multiple fatal errors."

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