The European Commission said President Donald Trump's executive action waiving tariffs and economic sanctions against Russia last week was "regrettable" and would impede international pressures to end the country's war with Ukraine.
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EU Says Trump's Russia Sanctions Waiver Weakens Pressure

By Dylan Moroses

The European Commission said President Donald Trump's executive action waiving tariffs and economic sanctions against Russia last week was "regrettable" and would impede international pressures to end the country's war with Ukraine.

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Forced Labor Tariff Lacks Justification, Biz Group Tells Court

By Dylan Moroses

Near-worldwide tariffs deployed by the U.S. government to address imports produced with forced labor should be considered unlawful given that the underlying report for those measures fails to meet statutory requirements, a coalition of small businesses told the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Crypto Broker Gets 13 Years For Laundering Drug Money

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge hit a Colombian cryptocurrency broker with over 13 years in prison Wednesday after he copped, along with a businessman with ties to the Cartier family, to laundering $14.5 million worth of Tether that facilitated narcotics transactions.

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LITIGATION

Iran Money Trail Takes Center Stage At Huawei's RICO Trial

By Stewart Bishop

The federal jury in Brooklyn weighing Huawei's fate for days heard testimony about the money trail, or lack thereof, from the company's purported Iranian unit and the Chinese telecommunications giant's U.S. payroll, as one of its defenses in the sanctions and trade secret theft trial began to take shape.

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App Can't Get Apple Antitrust Case Sent To DOJ Case's Judge

By Matthew Perlman

A New Jersey federal judge has refused to reassign communal video streaming app Rave's antitrust case against Apple to the same judge overseeing a monopolization case against Apple from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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ADMINISTRATIVE DISPUTES

Trade Court Blesses Retroactive Korean Steel Duty Findings

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Court of International Trade adopted a Federal Circuit reversal directing the court to allow the U.S. Department of Commerce to adjust its countervailable duty rate for a South Korean steel manufacturer by reconsidering earlier determinations.

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CIT OKs Chinese Flooring Benchmark But Still Has Questions

By Jack McLoone

While the U.S. Department of Commerce has now adequately explained its pricing calculation in a review of a Chinese flooring duty, the U.S. Court of International Trade still took issue with its continued use of adverse inferences in another portion of its findings.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Industry On The Rocks: 5 Options For Distressed Alcohol Cos.

As the U.S. alcohol industry, long regarded as recession-resistant and reliably profitable, confronts an unprecedented convergence of headwinds, producers, distributors and retailers must assess their financial position and explore the range of available options, including out-of-court restructuring, bankruptcy protection and strategic transactions, say attorneys at Adams & Reese.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The Law360 Pulse Leaderboard: A Look At The Top Firms

By Rachel Reimer

What makes a firm stand out in the ever-changing legal landscape? Here's a peek at the 2026 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — the firms that can demonstrate excellence on measures of prestige and the reach and capability of their legal practice.

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Watchdog Can Pursue Jackson Walker Fees, Judge Says

By Clara Geoghegan

The U.S. Trustee's Office has standing to pursue millions of dollars in fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP in cases assigned to a judge who was in an undisclosed romantic relationship with one of the firm's ex-partners, a Texas bankruptcy court has concluded.

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6th Circ.'s Sutton Floats Class Action Limits At Judiciary Panel

By Jeff Overley

An influential federal judge is proposing new restrictions on class actions that aim to broadly block government policies, judiciary advisers heard at a Wednesday gathering, which also explored transparency ideas affecting legal finance and hard-to-access court records in the red-hot realm of immigration litigation.

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Ex-Employee Of Seyfarth Client Drops Suit Over Data Breach

By Craig Clough

A Texas woman who filed a proposed class action against Seyfarth Shaw LLP over a data hack voluntarily dropped the claims Tuesday without prejudice, according to a filing in Illinois federal court. 

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DOJ Moves To Remove Minn. Judges From Immigration Cases

By Britain Eakin

A top U.S. Department of Justice official has moved to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from immigration cases, arguing that interviews they gave to The New York Times about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts suggest they can't be impartial.

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FBI Says Fired Agents Acted in Politicized Manner

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Lawyers for the government argued in a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday that an unfair firing suit from two former FBI agents should be tossed because they worked in a politicized manner on the "Arctic Frost" investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

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Sen. Blackburn Clears Path For Trump's Tenn. Court Nominee

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has returned her blue slip for a judicial nominee for the Eastern District of Tennessee after an apparent delay.

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​​​​​​​Mamdani Taps Top Judicial Adviser Amid New Ethics Reforms

By Andrea Keckley

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that he has appointed a lawyer from the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice to lead his judicial advisory committee as the mayor's office unveils new reforms to the city's judicial selection process.

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McCarter Beats Estate's Bid To Start $9.75M Interest Clock

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge has blocked a mall developer's family from filing a formal offer to settle a malpractice suit against McCarter & English LLP for $9.75 million, standing by a November 2025 decision to pause the case while similar litigation proceeds to trial.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adams & Reese

Akin Gump

Axinn

Cooley LLP

Cooper & Kirk

Covington & Burling

Frederick M. Lehrer Attorney at Law

Gibson Dunn

Greenberg Traurig

Grunfeld Desiderio

Holland & Knight

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kirkland & Ellis

Koskoff Koskoff

Latham & Watkins

McCarter & English

Morgan Lewis

Norton Rose

Rusty Hardin

Saiber LLC

Schagrin Associates

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Steptoe LLP

Strauss Borrelli

Taft Stettinius

Walsh Pizzi

Wiggin & Dana

Wiley Rein

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Apple Inc.

Brennan Center for Justice

Burford Capital LLC

Burke Inc.

Cartier SA

China Construction Bank

Cisco Systems Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Dongbu Steel

Futurewei Technologies Inc.

HSBC Holdings PLC

Halstead International Inc.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.

International Legal Finance Association

Korea Development Bank

Lawyers for Civil Justice

Learning Resources Inc.

NFL Enterprises LLC

New York City Bar Association

New York University

Nucor Corp

Parabellum Capital LLC

Republic National Distributing Co.

Steel Dynamics Inc.

T-Mobile US Inc.

The New York Times Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Judicial Conference of the United States

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Supreme Court

United Nations