Trump Names 2 Picks For ITC Commissioner Spots

By Ryan Davis

President Donald Trump has nominated a counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives' intellectual property subcommittee and an assistant U.S. trade representative to be members of the U.S. International Trade Commission.

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Commerce Probing Claims Of Mattress Duties Evasion

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce is opening three investigations into claims that Mexican, Malaysian and Polish exporters are dodging antidumping duties on mattresses following complaints by domestic companies such as Serta Simmons Bedding and Tempur Sealy International, the agency said Monday.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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International Trade Group Of The Year: Covington

By Dylan Moroses

Covington & Burling LLP's trade practice was able to assist a Toyota unit through a major U.S. emissions fraud dispute and secured several other significant resolutions for clients across a wide range of matters, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.

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Chinese Sugar Alcohol Faces Triple-Digit Antidumping Duty

By Jack McLoone

Chinese producers of the sweetener erythritol are generally facing an over 184% antidumping duty on their U.S. imports alongside a countervailing duty following a U.S. Department of Commerce investigation, the agency said Monday.

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Symrise, IFF Allowed Out Of DOJ Criminal Fragrances Probe

By Bryan Koenig

Symrise and International Flavors & Fragrances said separately Monday that they had been let out of a U.S. Department of Justice criminal probe looking for an anticompetitive conspiracy among fragrance giants, although it's unclear where that leaves other companies implicated.

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Cooperation Helps Ease 2 Sentences In NJ Ponzi Scheme

By George Woolston

Two of the government's key cooperating witnesses whose testimony and proffered evidence helped land the third conviction of Ponzi schemer Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein were sentenced on Monday in New Jersey federal court for their own roles in Weinstein's most recent scheme.

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Coal Exec Knew Egyptian Broker Paid Bribes, Jury Told

By Matthew Santoni

A former coal executive knew his Egyptian broker was passing along part of his commissions as bribes in exchange for $143 million in contracts, according to prosecutors' opening arguments Monday in his Pennsylvania jury trial for allegedly violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — while his attorneys said he was simply in the dark.

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NY Judge OKs $4M Bond While Wind Farm Case Is Appealed

By Joyce Hanson

A New York federal judge has stayed the enforcement of a judgment favoring a Chinese company against Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank in a wind farm dispute as the Vietnamese bank appeals an earlier order, also approving a $4 million bond tendered with OCB's motion to stay.

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US Backs Bid To Halt Line 5 Shutdown On Wis. Tribal Lands

By Crystal Owens

The government is backing a bid by Enbridge Energy Inc. to stay an order requiring the partial removal of its Line 5 pipeline that runs through Wisconsin tribal lands, saying that while it has an interest in protecting federal trust lands, the case implicates significant interests in foreign affairs.

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US Sets 19% Tariff On Bangladeshi Imports In Framework Deal

By Dylan Moroses

Certain imported goods from Bangladesh will enter the U.S. exempt from the 19% U.S. tariff applied to most merchandise from the country, according to a fact sheet published Monday along with the signing of the framework trade agreement between the two countries.

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The Little Tucker Act's Big Class Action Moment

The Little Tucker Act, which allows claims against the government for illegally exacted fees, is transforming from a niche procedural mechanism into a powerful vehicle for class action litigation, with more than $500 billion in such fees — including President Donald Trump's tariffs — now ripe for challenge, says Dinis Cheian at Susman Godfrey.

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EEOC, Law Students End Legal Battle Over Firm DEI Letters

By Lynn LaRowe

A proposed class action brought by law students last year challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's requests for diversity data from 20 law firms ended Monday with the government agreeing compliance "was not mandatory, and that most law firms did not provide any of the requested information."

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Ill. Legislation Targets Outside Investments In Legal Sector

By Emma Cueto

Two bills introduced in the Illinois state Legislature seek to place restrictions on the use of private equity-backed managed service organizations in the legal industry and on any fee-sharing between Illinois lawyers and firms owned by nonlawyers in states like Arizona.

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Goldstein's Defense Questions Missing Tax Emails

By Jared Foretek

Document retention at the outside accounting firm for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm took center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court lawyers' tax fraud trial Monday, as the defense claimed that the accountants' internal emails about Goldstein's tax returns were never produced despite being sought in subpoenas.

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Conn. Atty Sanctioned For Another Case Of AI Misuse

By Emily Sawicki

A Connecticut labor litigator's vow to permanently cease using generative artificial intelligence tools in his practice after he allowed AI-generated errors to appear in separate but similar June filings has weighed in his favor as a Bridgeport federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorney.

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High Court Asked To Take Up Malpractice Case Against Akin

By Adam Lidgett

A former Cornell University graduate student wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review the dismissal of his suit accusing Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys of manipulating patent litigation to steal his DNA sequencing intellectual property.

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Sentencing Commission's Reform Ideas May Cut Prison Time

By Stewart Bishop

Proposed new amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines could lead to shorter prison terms for many offenders, including by revising loss calculations for financial crimes and providing a first-of-its-kind path to reward defendants for post-offense, pre-sentence rehabilitative efforts.

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10th Circ. Ends Civil Rights Suit, Sanctions Atty For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A self-represented Maryland attorney could not revive her $15 million racial discrimination suit against Denver-based Frontier Airlines after a Tenth Circuit panel found the district court had not erred in its dismissal, in a ruling that also sanctioned the lawyer for misusing generative artificial intelligence.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's chancellor has rejected a bid for dismissal of a derivative suit accusing Coinbase Global Inc. insiders of massively unloading shares ahead of a steep stock drop, stressing a special litigation committee's failure to meet independence standards.

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