Senate Finance Committee Approves ITC Commissioner Picks

By Dylan Moroses

The Senate Finance Committee approved five nominees to serve as commissioners for the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday.

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US Trade Fraud Task Force Recovers Over $1B In 10 Months

By Dylan Moroses

In just under a year, the U.S. has recovered over $1 billion as a result of enforcement efforts led by the cross-agency Trade Fraud Task Force, and the U.S. Department of Justice will establish a new legal section to prosecute trade crimes, a department official said Tuesday. 

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9th Circ. Erases Comet's $40M Trade Secret Verdict

By Ivan Moreno

A split Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday overturned Comet Technologies USA's $40 million trade secret verdict against XP Power and ordered a new trial, holding in a precedential decision that the jury was wrongly instructed that XP had to prove Comet's claimed secrets could have been lawfully discovered or reverse-engineered.

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DOJ Drops Trade Secrets Case Against DuPont Rival Mid-Trial

By Lauren Berg

Just a few days into the start of a monthlong trial, the U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its 15-year-old criminal espionage case alleging a group of related Chinese steel companies stole DuPont Co. trade secrets for creating titanium dioxide.

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1st Circ. Backs CDC Ban On Importing Dogs Under 6 Months

By Carolyn Muyskens

The First Circuit has upheld a rule requiring all dogs imported into the U.S. to be at least six months of age, saying the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had shown it was a reasonable measure to fight rabies.

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No Block On NZ Fish Imports, But Trade Court Case Continues

By Jack McLoone

While the U.S. Court of International Trade refused to preliminarily block imports of New Zealand fish that are caught in a manner that a conservation group said harms dolphins, the court also refused to dismiss the case altogether because the group has standing to bring the suit.

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Nadine Menendez Can't Reclaim Jewelry During Appeal

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied Nadine Menendez's bid to force the return of jewelry seized from her home during a bribery investigation tied to her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, ruling that the government had lawfully taken the items and can keep them while her appeal is pending.

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EU Calls For WTO To Modernize To Handle New Issues

By Jack McLoone

Momentum must keep carrying forward to adopt much-needed changes to World Trade Organization rules that haven't been updated to deal with modern issues since being established in 1995, the European Union said Tuesday.

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US Refunded $49.2B In Tariffs Last Month, Treasury Says

By Kevin Pinner

The U.S. government issued tariff refunds totaling more than $49.2 billion in June, dragging down customs duties to account for a monthly net loss of $25.5 billion in the federal accounts, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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Key Witness In Halkbank Exec's Sanctions Trial Avoids Prison

By Stewart Bishop

A Turkish-Iranian businessman-turned-linchpin cooperator in the trial of a Halkbank executive has been spared further incarceration over his role in an alleged $20 billion scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil and gas proceeds through bribery and illicit transactions that laundered payments to Iran's government.

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'Bulletproof Hosting' Providers Indicted For Aiding Hacks

By Allison Grande

A trio of Russian nationals and the "bulletproof hosting" services they operated have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Ohio on charges that they helped facilitate cyberattacks against banks, hospitals and other critical infrastructure operators across nearly two dozen states and several countries, leading to more than $62 million in losses, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

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Md. Terminal Sues Bruks Over Failed Bulk Handling System

By Jared Foretek

A Baltimore-area marine terminal sued its bulk material handling system provider Monday in Maryland federal court, claiming that the system failed after processing less than 26,000 tons — a fraction of the 5-million-ton capacity Bruks claimed the system could handle — and seeking more than $2 million in damages.

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2 Firms Tapped To Lead Super Micro Investor Action

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge has appointed Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP to lead a now-consolidated investor class action alleging Super Micro Computer failed to disclose that a large portion of its server sales were made to Chinese companies in transactions that violated U.S. export controls and led to three arrests.

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Former Deputy Patent Commissioner Kim Joins Jones Day

By Dani Kass

A newly departed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deputy commissioner with a strong background in artificial intelligence has joined Jones Day as a partner in its global intellectual property practice, the firm said Tuesday.

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Lessons On Contingency Planning From OFAC's Iran Reversal

The Office of Foreign Assets Control‘s abrupt revocation of a recent license easing sanctions on Iranian oil products shows commercial dealings relying on OFAC licenses or with higher sanctions risks should expressly address what happens if a policy change makes performance prohibited, says Michelle Roberts at Berliner Corcoran.

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What Actually Matters To GCs During Cross-Border Disputes

A recent international arbitration forum featured an in-house perspective on dispute resolution, highlighting that relationship preservation and other factors may matter more to businesses than success on legal merits, say Michael Mutek at Womble Bond and Mark Stadnyk at Thyssenkrupp Nucera.

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Reviving Prize Law Would Reshape Maritime Seizure Risks

Recent U.S. maritime interdictions of sanctioned tankers and shadow fleet vessels raise urgent questions about whether civil forfeiture or prize law — a framework that has not been meaningfully tested since the Spanish-American War — governs and the potential impacts on vessel owners, charterers and insurers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Blanche Called Anti-Weaponization Fund 'Mistake,' Per Durbin

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday the anti-weaponization fund created as part of the president's settlement with the IRS was "a mistake," according to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after his meeting with Blanche.

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Justices Seek More Funds Over Increased Threats, Talk Ethics

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.

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Quinn Emanuel, Spiro Ousted From CoStar Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has disqualified Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its attorney Alex Spiro from representing a commercial real estate platform in a copyright infringement suit brought by CoStar, agreeing that the firm's representation of CoStar in a different case should result in its removal from this one.

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Bronx Defenders Union OKs Strike 1 Year After Last Walkout

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders has become the third New York City-based legal aid organization to authorize a strike this month, which comes just one year after the group's most recent walkout.

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Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Ky. Law Prof Wants Court To Block Judge For Dean Pick

By Hailey Konnath

A University of Kentucky law professor asked a federal court to block U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming the next law school dean, claiming that the appointment has "stripped the faculty" of their credibility on the basis of peer review.

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Calif. Bar Settles With Administrators Of 'Disastrous' Bar Exam

By Andrea Keckley

The State Bar of California has reached a settlement with the administrators of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, whose array of highly publicized technical glitches prevented hundreds of aspiring lawyers from completing the test.

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