The Federal Circuit shouldn't stay an injunction blocking the collection of Section 122 tariffs from two businesses and Washington state while the federal government appeals the trade court ruling because the appeal is likely to fail, the businesses and 24 states said Thursday.
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States Say Fed. Circ. Should Keep Tariff Block During Appeal

By Jack McLoone

The Federal Circuit shouldn't stay an injunction blocking the collection of Section 122 tariffs from two businesses and Washington state while the federal government appeals the trade court ruling because the appeal is likely to fail, the businesses and 24 states said Thursday.

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Squires Scrutinizing Grant Of Asus IPR Over Sotera Concern

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has ordered a review of his own decision to institute a challenge by ASUSTeK Computer Inc. and Asus to a Nokia patent, citing Nokia's allegations that the U.S. International Trade Commission might be considering the same invalidity arguments.

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ITC Investigating Welch's Rival's Fruit Snack Imports

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission opened an investigation into claims by the manufacturer of Welch's Fruit Snacks that a rival company, Cibo Vita, is importing patent-infringing yogurt-covered snacks into the U.S.

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INVESTIGATIONS & REVIEWS

Brief

ITC Finds Tin Mill Imports Harming US Industry

By Jack McLoone

Tin mill products imported from China, Taiwan and Turkey that are allegedly being sold at unfair prices are harming domestic U.S. industry, the U.S. International Trade Commission preliminarily found Thursday.

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LITIGATION

Judge To Alter Critique Of Investor Vying To Be Lead Plaintiff

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge on Thursday acknowledged a potential "black mark" against an investor who vied to be lead plaintiff for a subclass of investors who allegedly bought McDermott International Inc. stock at artificially inflated prices, agreeing to amend an order critical of him.

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PEOPLE

Commerce Department Senior Counsel Joins MoFo In DC

By Jack Rodgers

A senior counsel in a U.S. Commerce Department office focused on providing legal support to the Bureau of Industry and Security has moved to Morrison Foerster LLP's national security group in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Wednesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.

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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

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King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."

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Parents Demand 'Bad Faith' Sanctions In Camp Mystic Case

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Dem Sens. Ask DOJ To Preserve Trump-IRS Settlement Docs

By Jack McLoone

Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Fried Goldberg

Allegaert Berger

Arnold & Itkin

Baker Botts

Carlton Fields

Castagna Scott

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Finnegan

Fish & Richardson

Freedman Normand

Freiwald Law

Gilmartin Magence

Gupta Wessler

King & Spalding

Lennon Murphy

Ligris & Associates

McCarter & English

McKool Smith

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Nix Patterson

Pomerantz LLP

Reynolds Frizzell

Robbins Geller

Ross LLP

Schall Law

Townsend Law Firm

Watts Law Firm

Wiggin & Dana

Wolf Haldenstein

Wright Close Barger & Guzman

Yetter Coleman

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services

Audi AG

Banyan

Basic Fun Inc.

Boston University

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CATIC Financial Inc.

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. NV

Cibo Vita

Citigroup Inc.

Council on Criminal Justice

Fun

Genworth Financial Inc.

Gerald Holdings LLC

Google LLC

Harvard University

LinkedIn Corp.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McDermott International

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Nokia Corp.

Quince

Snap Inc.

Stavvy Inc.

The Florida Bar

The Promotion In Motion Cos. Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Miami

Volkswagen AG

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Florida Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Oregon Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Supreme Court of Nevada

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Army

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

Washington Attorney General's Office