Fed. Circ. Pauses Trade Court Ruling Blocking Trump Tariffs

By Dylan Moroses

The Federal Circuit halted a permanent injunction issued by the U.S. Court of International Trade that was scheduled to take effect on Tuesday, which would have stopped the collection of duties under President Donald Trump's temporary global tariff from two businesses and the state of Washington.

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Over 8 Million Imports In Line For Over $35B In Tariff Refunds

By Dylan Moroses

Over 8.3 million imports are pending tariff refunds after clearing the final system processes developed by Customs and Border Protection, accounting for almost $35.5 billion in duty refunds with interest, according to the latest declaration filed Tuesday by an agency official in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Trade Court Won't Backdate Vietnamese Honey Injunction

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Court of International Trade denied a group of Vietnamese raw honey exporters' bid to backdate an injunction blocking liquidation of their products, saying the producers' reliance on a Federal Circuit precedent is misplaced.

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Commerce Details Path To Discount For 100% Pharma Tariff

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce released guidance for pharmaceutical companies looking to show they have made sufficient onshoring commitments to qualify for a discount on the 100% tariff on certain imported drugs coming this summer.

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Commerce Orders Triple-Digit Duties On Chinese Fencing

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Commerce Department hit temporary steel fencing from China with triple-digit antidumping duties along with countervailing duties of varying rates Tuesday after the U.S. International Trade Commission found imports of the fencing were harming U.S. industry.

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Ship Managers Indicted Over Baltimore Bridge Disaster

By Linda Chiem

Federal prosecutors accused the management company and a supervisor of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024 of recklessly operating the ship, forging inspection documents and misleading safety investigators, according to a Maryland federal grand jury's criminal indictment unsealed Tuesday.

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NYC China Police Station Case Is Overblown, Jury Hears

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for a Chinese American man accused of running a secret police station in New York City for China's government told a Brooklyn federal jury Tuesday that his client is being railroaded for helping out his community.

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4th Circ. Allows $3.6M Seizure In IPhone Trafficking Case

By Parker Quinlan

The Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that federal prosecutors can seize over $3.6 million in assets from a North Carolina man who was convicted on multiple counts of selling illegally obtained iPhones and other electronics to buyers overseas.

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Assessing Material Adverse Event Clauses Amid Iran Conflict

As deals signed before the current Middle East conflict come under pressure, determinations over material adverse effect clauses are arising in real time, and whether an MAE has been wrongfully invoked may be as consequential as whether it was validly established in the first place, say Amran Nawaz and Ralph Stobwasser at Secretariat.

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Understanding The Legal Risks Of Fragile Supply Chains

To ensure supply chain resilience in times of crisis — such as the recent blockage of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz — it is important for everyone involved in the chain to understand the distribution arrangements and laws applicable across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Brown Rudnick.

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4 Emerging Approaches To AI Protective Order Language

Over the last year, at least five federal district courts have issued or analyzed specific protective order provisions restricting the use of generative artificial intelligence platforms with protected materials, establishing that proactive AI-specific provisions are now standard practice and demonstrating that no single model works for every case, says Joel Bush at Kilpatrick.

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Murdaugh Murder Conviction Overturned By SC High Court

By Parker Quinlan

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a double murder conviction and ordered a new trial for disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, finding the jury in his first trial was biased by a clerk of court who allegedly sought a guilty verdict in a ploy to juice sales of her book about the trial.

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Texas Atty Must Pay $5M For Groping Opposing Counsel

By Lynn LaRowe

A Texas state appellate court on Wednesday refused to disturb a $5 million jury verdict against a San Antonio lawyer for grabbing the buttocks of opposing counsel at the courthouse where they were arguing a family law proceeding in 2019.

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DOJ Fraud Division Set To Shake Up White-Collar Enforcement

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump's administration created the U.S. Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division with a narrow focus on combating government program fraud, but a move to retain federal prosecutors focused on other types of fraud could signal a wider scope with potential ripple effects across white-collar enforcement.

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Arbitrators See Global Stakes In Trump BigLaw EO Fight

By Caroline Simson

Ahead of a D.C. Circuit hearing on Thursday in the Trump administration's effort to revive executive orders imposed against four BigLaw firms, an official at the College of Commercial Arbitrators told Law360 this week there are several things arbitrators are going to be watching for.

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Apple Targets Hagens Berman 'Gamesmanship' In ICloud Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Apple has lashed out at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for trying to withdraw a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case in California federal court without discovery into any directions she received to preserve now-deleted emails, raising concerns that the withdrawal is meant to "paper over lost evidence."

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Michigan Federal Judge Gets Probation For Drunken Driving

By Susan Smiley

Michigan federal Judge Thomas L. Ludington was sentenced by a state judge Wednesday to six months probation and fined $1,175 in after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge last month in Emmet County.

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6th Circ. Says Kentucky Judicial Hopefuls May Tout Ideology

By Emily Sawicki

Kentucky judicial hopefuls are cleared to discuss their political leanings on the campaign trail, according to a precedential ruling by the Sixth Circuit, which permanently enjoined the state's Judicial Conduct Commission from pursuing an enforcement action against two candidates who described themselves as "conservatives" and "Republicans" amid the 2022 election season.

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Judge Says LegalForce Must Pay $93K After Losing TM Suit

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge on Wednesday ordered LegalForce RAPC Worldwide PC to pay nearly $93,000 in fees and costs to the company that operates LawFirms.com, finding the case to be exceptional because LegalForce alleged facts it knew were false and took steps to obscure other facts that showed its case was meritless.

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CORRECTED: Senate Advances 13 US Attorneys In En Bloc Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 46-45, along party lines, to advance the nomination of 13 U.S. attorneys on Monday as part of a larger nominations package. Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the status of the nominees in the Senate.

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