Fed. Circ. Pressed To Immediately Release Tariff Mandate

By Dylan Moroses

Small businesses behind the successful challenge to President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs asked the Federal Circuit Tuesday to immediately issue its mandate so the lower U.S. Court of International Trade can consider how to order the government to issue refunds for importers that paid the unlawful duties.

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Singapore Court Upholds €290M NextEra Award Against Spain

By Joyce Hanson

A Singapore court has denied Spain's bid on the basis of sovereign immunity to escape litigation to enforce a €290 million arbitral award issued to renewable energy investor NextEra, saying the country agreed to arbitrate the dispute when it joined the ICSID Convention.

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Commerce Ordered To Rethink Co.'s Aluminum Sourcing

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce failed to adequately consider whether a Vietnamese company can prove its aluminum goods are sufficiently U.S.-sourced, the Court of International Trade ruled while still upholding an overall ruling finding that the company is circumventing duties on Chinese imports.

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Solar Cells From Laos, Indonesia, India Face Steep US Duties

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce has found that imported solar cells from Laos, Indonesia and India have been subsidized and preliminarily determined significant countervailing duties, according to notices published Wednesday.

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Enbridge Cites 'Painful' Risk In Bid To Delay Line Shutdown

By Corey Rothauser

Enbridge Energy LP insists that a Wisconsin federal court has the authority to pause a looming shutdown of a portion of its Line 5 pipeline, telling a judge that keeping the crude oil and natural gas liquids line running amid an appeal would prevent "painful, irreparable harm" to consumers, workers and energy markets in the U.S. and Canada.

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Levona Wants Permanent Injunction In Eletson Gas Spat

By Emily Lever

Levona Holdings urged a New York district court to permanently bar the former majority shareholders of Eletson Gas from exercising any control over the company or interfering with Levona's ownership of the preferred interests in the company, several weeks after the federal court vacated a $102 million arbitration award in the feud.

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New Foreign Bribery Guide Can Help Int'l Cos. Identify Risks

In light of growing global coordination on anti-bribery enforcement, the International Foreign Bribery Taskforce’s recent guide to foreign bribery indicators represents a step forward in the standardization of factors for evaluating corruption risks that multinational companies should consider, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.

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SEC's Morocoin Case Presents A Crypto Jurisdiction Dilemma

The allegations in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Morocoin describe serious fraud and resulting harm, but it's less clear how the facts establish that the fraud involved a securities transaction, particularly given the changes to how the SEC views investment contracts involving crypto-assets and the application of the Howey test, says Dave Hirsch at McGuireWoods.

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How Epstein Referred Clients To BigLaw Partners In His Orbit

By Aebra Coe

Billionaire and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein always had top lawyers in his orbit. He also had extensive and lasting relationships with several partners at BigLaw firms, files newly released by the Department of Justice show.

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Goldstein Placed Under Home Confinement Until Sentencing

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein was placed under home confinement by a Maryland federal judge until his sentencing, but will likely be able to keep his $3 million D.C. home after the jury that convicted him separately found there wasn't a clear nexus between the property and his mortgage fraud conviction.

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'One Way Or Another, ICE Will Comply,' Minn. Judge Vows

By Lauren Berg

The Minnesota federal court's chief judge who admonished U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for violating nearly 100 court orders concerning the Trump administration's immigration operations in the state vowed Thursday "to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law," including holding government officials in criminal contempt.

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IRS Broke Law 42K Times By Giving Info To ICE, Judge Says

By Anna Scott Farrell

The federal judge who stopped the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer addresses with immigration authorities said Thursday that a recent admission by the agency showed that it broke the law more than 42,000 times last summer when it disclosed addresses by relying on a computerized matching system.

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Calif. Atty Agrees To Discipline From State Bar Over AI Errors

By Hailey Konnath

A Los Angeles attorney has agreed to be disciplined for filing appellate briefs rife with artificial intelligence-hallucinated case law quotations, according to a stipulation approved Wednesday by the California State Bar Court, which found that he "recklessly and with gross negligence failed to perform legal services with competence."

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Reed Smith Says Atty Can't Expand Pay Bias Damages Period

By Grace Elletson

Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state court to rule that an attorney who claimed the firm unlawfully underpaid her cannot expand the time window for which she's seeking damages, arguing a legal doctrine used to revive continuing claims can't be used to collect back pay.

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Feds Seek To Toss DOJ Official's Suit Over Epstein-Talk Firing

By Lynn LaRowe

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a D.C. federal court to ax a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former DOJ official who was fired after he was surreptitiously filmed talking about Jeffrey Epstein on what he thought was a date, saying district courts don't have jurisdiction and the matter belongs in front of the Merit Systems Protection Board.

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Atty Owns 'Sloppy' Incorrect Citations Before Texas Justices

By José Luis Martínez

A Houston attorney told a Texas appellate panel Thursday that incorrect case citations in his brief were "sloppy" and "embarrassing," taking responsibility for errors that included nonexistent cases and inaccurate quotations.

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Senate Judiciary Advances Illinois US Atty

By Nadia Dreid

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Gregory Gilmore to be U.S. attorney for the Central District of Illinois in a quick vote that passed without comment.

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