Trade Court Again Finds China Chlorine Duty Review Lacking

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Court of International Trade on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce to try again to justify its use of Romania as a surrogate for determining market prices of a Chinese pool chemical for purposes of an antidumping order.

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CIT Blocks Customs From Rejecting Golf Cart Co.'s Imports

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Court of International Trade granted a preliminary injunction blocking the federal government from compelling certain actions on imports entered by a Florida electric golf cart company while a duty investigation is ongoing, according to an opinion published Friday.

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House OKs Bill Letting CBP Share Counterfeit Shipment Data

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. House passed a bill Monday that would allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection to share detailed shipment information with brands, online marketplaces and logistics companies when agents suspect imports are counterfeit.

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Justices Nix $50M Zimbabwe Immunity Feud

By Caroline Simson

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opted not to take up a petition asking it to resolve whether countries that agree to arbitrate an international dispute are also waiving their right to assert sovereign immunity in subsequent litigation to recognize a foreign judgment confirming an arbitral award.

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Justices Turn Away Lebanese Bank Terrorism Suit

By Caroline Simson

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review the Second Circuit's finding that a Lebanese bank is subject to the personal jurisdiction of New York courts on claims over alleged assistance to Hezbollah by a bank it acquired, a case the Lebanese bank had argued raises due process questions.

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DC Circ. Questions Alstom's Shot At Brightline Rail Deal

By Jared Foretek

A panel of the D.C. Circuit Monday questioned how competitive Alstom actually was in its bid to build train sets for Brightline West's forthcoming high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California, as the locomotive manufacturer argued it would have had a shot if not for a Buy America waiver granted to rival bidder Siemens.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week tackled a fresh mix of deal litigation, procedural disputes and fiduciary duty claims, with several rulings and filings underscoring the court's continued focus on contractual precision, forum enforcement and the limits of stockholder challenges.

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UK Industry Group Calls For Countermeasures To US Tariffs

By Josh White

A U.K. industry group urged the country's government to prepare a "trade bazooka," including a package of countermeasures to safeguard the economy from outside shocks such as U.S. tariffs and the economic fallout from the Iran war.

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Democratic Sen. Presses Retail Giants On Tariff Refund Plans

By Dylan Moroses

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate small business committee sent letters last week to major retailers and shipping carriers asking whether they planned to pass on to consumers tariff refunds they receive.

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Brief

Indian Solar Cells Face Steep Early US Duties

By Jack McLoone

Indian solar cells entering the U.S. are facing potential triple-digit antidumping duties, while those cells from Laos and Indonesia could be hit with lower duties, after the imports from all three countries were preliminarily found Monday to be sold at unfair prices.

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Texas Rep. Says Rivera Wanted Political Change In Venezuela

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told jurors in Florida federal court on Monday that his meetings with Venezuelan officials set up by former Florida Congressman David Rivera were part of a larger attempt to negotiate an exit for then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and usher in free and fair elections for the country.

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Commerce Probes Pipes From Austria, Taiwan, UAE For Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce said Monday that it has opened an investigation into whether imports of pipes known as oil country tubular goods from Austria, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates are being sold in the U.S. at unfair prices.

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Fed. Circ. Spurns Crocs' Rehearing Bid In ITC Appeal

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Monday declined to rehear a mixed appeal from Crocs Inc. seeking an import ban against companies it claims were importing footwear that infringes its trademarks.

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Canada Provinces Back Hockey League's Antitrust Dismissal

By Matthew Perlman

The governments of four Canadian provinces have urged the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal from junior hockey players accusing the National Hockey League and its developmental organizations of suppressing compensation.

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Pool Co. Wins Extra $1.3M In Atty Fees For Unpaid Judgment

By Hayley Fowler

Attorneys from McCarter & English LLP, Womble Bond Dickinson and Georgiou Partnership LLP who represent a U.S.-based swimming pool parts manufacturer won an additional $1.3 million in attorney fees for their efforts to collect a more than $17 million judgment against a Chinese rival.

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Chipmaker Says Chinese Military Co. Label Lacks Evidence

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Chinese chipmaker has told a D.C. federal judge that the U.S. Department of Defense lacks evidence to support labeling the company a Chinese military company, saying its products are designed solely for civilian commercial and industrial uses.

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Boise Cascade Pleads Guilty To Buying Tariff-Dodging Wood

By Rae Ann Varona

Wood products giant Boise Cascade Co. must pay a fine of more than $6.3 million after pleading guilty Monday in Florida federal court to purchasing Chinese plywood that it knew a company had illegally transshipped to evade countervailing and antidumping duties.

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Judge Flags Lead Plaintiff Issues In McDermott Merger Suit

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge Monday questioned whether a shareholder group is too large and whether a late-buying individual investor could represent a subclass of investors in a suit accusing energy industry engineering giant McDermott International Inc. of misleading investors during its $6 billion merger with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. NV in 2018.

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Reed Smith Targeted In Eletson Gas Ownership Fracas

By Caroline Simson

Reed Smith LLP and two of its partners are facing a $262 million lawsuit in a long-running and bitter dispute over ownership of an international gas shipping company, as well as other issues that remain unresolved following the vacatur of an underlying $102 million arbitral award for fraud.

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DOJ's Superseding Policy Muddies Trade Crime Disclosures

The U.S. Department of Justice’s first agencywide voluntary self-disclosure policy is intended to standardize approaches across DOJ components, but the shift may prove difficult in trade controls cases under the National Security Division, which has long viewed sanctions and export control offenses as uniquely serious, say attorneys at Covington.

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ABA Settles Scholarship Suit After Disavowing Racial Criteria

By Grace Elletson

The American Bar Association struck a deal to end a suit claiming a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities discriminated against white applicants, in line with a vow it made last year that its programs would be race-neutral, according to a filing Monday in Illinois federal court.

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2nd Trump Judicial Nominee Questioned Over Fla. State Case

By Courtney Bublé

For the second time in a year, a judicial nominee for a Florida federal court is under scrutiny for allegedly presiding over a state level case involving President Donald Trump while being considered for a federal judgeship.

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Alabama Justices Toss Case Over Atty's AI-Hallucinated Briefs

By Lauren Berg

The Alabama Supreme Court tossed an appeal and sanctioned a Mobile, Alabama, attorney for filing "grossly deficient" briefs that contained multiple inaccurate legal citations that the justices attributed to artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Justices Deny Ramey Appeal Of Sanctions In Google IP Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review $255,000 in sanctions on embattled attorney William Ramey and a client for bringing what a California judge said was a frivolous patent suit against Google, turning down his appeal arguing the decision used the wrong legal standard.

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Analysis

How A Rush To Trial Paid Off With A Rare FCPA Acquittal

By Phillip Bantz

A defense strategy to fast-track the trial in a yearslong criminal foreign bribery case against a Mexican businessman in Texas appeared to backfire when he was convicted and sent to prison last year, but the gamble ultimately paid off when a judge permanently tossed the case earlier this month.

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Toss Of Atty's LVMH Claim 'Problematic,' 2nd Circ. Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Second Circuit judge said Monday that he is having a "hard time" understanding how the firing of a LVMH lawyer wasn't connected to her earlier harassment allegations, indicating a willingness to revive retaliation claims against the luxury goods giant.

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