U.S. pharmaceutical giants aren't expected to face various tariff rates up to 100% on certain imported patented drugs and ingredients beginning Friday, but all importers must begin to classify their goods that will eventually be subject to the duties, according to customs guidance published Thursday.
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CBP Outlines Rates, Classifications For Pharma Tariffs

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. pharmaceutical giants aren't expected to face various tariff rates up to 100% on certain imported patented drugs and ingredients beginning Friday, but all importers must begin to classify their goods that will eventually be subject to the duties, according to customs guidance published Thursday.

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Airbus Pays HMRC £6.4M Over Export Control Breaches

By Josh White

Aerospace giant Airbus reached an agreement with the U.K. tax authority to pay £6.4 million ($8.6 million) to settle claims that the company breached export control rules, the agency announced Thursday.

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Trade Court OKs Pipe Fitting Duty Scope After 2 Remands

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce properly concluded that certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings were in scope of antidumping duties after the U.S. Court of International Trade remanded issues with contrary results twice, according to an opinion sustaining the government's latest redetermination.

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Trade Court Rejects Chinese Carbon Duty Surrogate Choice

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce used flawed reasoning to select Malaysia over Romania as the surrogate market for determining the value of certain carbon used for filtration from China during an antidumping duty review, the U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled, ordering a redo.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

Chinese Truck Beds' Covers Face Possible Triple-Digit Duties

By Jack McLoone

Chinese truck bed covers manufactured by certain exporters could be hit with triple-digit countervailing duties when exported to the U.S. after the U.S. Department of Commerce found Thursday that the products are subsidized.

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LITIGATION

Enbridge Loses 7th Circ. Wis. Trespass Row, Gets $5.2M Redo

By Crystal Owens

The Seventh Circuit upheld a decision holding that Enbridge Energy is trespassing on Wisconsin tribal lands, but vacated and remanded a $5.2 million restitution order and timeline for a portion of the Line 5 pipeline's removal, saying the company needs a "reasonable opportunity" to complete the proposed reroute.

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ADMINISTRATIVE DISPUTES

Squires Erases PTAB Ax Of Dermatology IP Upheld At ITC

By Adam Lidgett

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has thrown out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that Biofrontera Inc. had shown that all the challenged claims of a Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. patent on a photodynamic dermatology device are invalid as obvious.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Teaching SEC Investigations Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Instructing a law school course on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigations has made me a more thoughtful, deliberate practitioner because it requires me to continually reassess and challenge what I know about securities law enforcement, how I know it and how best to explain it, says David Chase at Miami Law.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Advocacy Group Says Law Firm Fellowship Program Biased

By Patrick Hoff

A legal advocacy group said Thursday it had lodged U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges against a nonprofit and law firms including Jones Day, White & Case and Morgan Lewis, claiming Muslim and Middle Eastern students were getting unlawful preference in a fellowship program.

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ABA Eyes Nixing School DEI Standards To Sway Trump Admin

By Emma Cueto

The American Bar Association is poised next week to eliminate the first of multiple diversity-related law school standards, a controversial move that it hopes will allow it to remain an accreditor despite an uncertain outcome in the face of a Trump administration increasingly wary of the association's role in legal education.

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WilmerHale Sued Over Accidental Client Data Disclosure

By Andrea Keckley

A proposed federal class action filed Wednesday accuses WilmerHale of failing to protect clients' personal information after an employee allegedly disclosed sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, to an unauthorized person who misrepresented their identity back in May.

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2 Traders Admit Guilt In Stolen BigLaw Info Scheme

By Chris Villani

Two men pled guilty Thursday in Massachusetts federal court to their roles in a sweeping scheme to trade on inside information stolen from huge corporate law firms about upcoming deals.

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Ill. Atty Sanctioned For AI Slop In Starbucks Bias Suit

By Adrian Cruz

A unanimous Illinois appeals court sanctioned an attorney representing a former Starbucks employee in a workplace discrimination suit after determining that he submitted briefs using false citations and quotations hallucinated by artificial intelligence software.

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Trump May Renominate Blanche If GOP Holdouts Block Vote

By Courtney Bublé

With Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., still on the fence about acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation to be attorney general, President Donald Trump said Thursday he might renominate Blanche next year when the two senators are no longer serving in the Senate.

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DA Says Trump's NY Hush Money Conviction Must Stand

By Frank G. Runyeon

New York prosecutors told a state appellate court that President Donald Trump's 34-count felony conviction for falsifying business records is "unaffected" by the U.S. Supreme Court's watershed presidential immunity decision and should be upheld.

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Judiciary's Bid To Control Courthouses Gets Senate Push

By Courtney Bublé

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Thursday that would create a pilot program for the federal judiciary to obtain direct authority to maintain its buildings, which the judiciary says is desperately needed.

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Bronx Legal Aid Organization's Union Rejects New Pay Offer

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders' executive director said on Thursday that the union representing the organization's over 300 attorneys and staff has rejected an updated offer on wages, with both sides still at odds over the prospect of separate salary scales for lawyers and social workers.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Clement & Murphy

Cole Sadkin

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

David R. Chase PA

Davis & Leiman

Debevoise & Plimpton

Desmarais LLP

Fine Kaplan

Foley Hoag

Fox Rothschild

Goodwin Procter

Hooper Hathaway

Husch Blackwell

Jones Day

Jones Walker LLP

Kanji & Katzen

Kelley Drye

Latham & Watkins

Milberg PLLC

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Neville Peterson

Patterson Belknap

Polsinelli PC

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Sidley Austin

Squire Patton

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Troutman

VCL Law

Venable LLP

Wachtell Lipton

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

Biofrontera Inc.

Brooklyn Defender Services

Burke Inc.

Calgon Carbon Corporation

Citrix Systems Inc.

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

Enstar Group Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson

Line 5 LLC

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

New York University

Pfizer Inc.

Poshmark Inc.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc.

Stanford University

Starbucks Corp.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Bronx Defenders

United Auto Workers

University of Miami

YouTube Inc.

iRobot Corporation

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe

Bureau of Industry and Security

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Trade Commission

HM Revenue & Customs

Illinois Attorney General's Office

Illinois Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Administration

International Trade Commission

Judicial Conference of the United States

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court