As President Donald Trump and his administration continue to negotiate with trading partners seeking to lower tariff rates, countries with digital services taxes could find those measures build some leverage with U.S. negotiators aiming to eliminate them.
As President Donald Trump and his administration continue to negotiate with trading partners seeking to lower tariff rates, countries with digital services taxes could find those measures build some leverage with U.S. negotiators aiming to eliminate them.
TikTok's Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, has sold a majority stake in the video app's U.S. operations to a new U.S.-based joint venture managed by a group of non-Chinese investors in order to comply with a congressional mandate and avoid the app's shutdown, the company announced Thursday.
A former Mars Inc. risk executive was sentenced on Thursday to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay the candy company more than $28.4 million in restitution after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion surrounding a decadelong fraud scheme.
A former Florida congressman will get to contest tax charges against him separately from a criminal indictment alleging he and a political consultant failed to register as foreign agents while lobbying on behalf of Venezuela's state oil company, a federal judge ruled.
Expedia urged a Florida magistrate judge Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the online travel company of trafficking in an island confiscated by the Cuban government, arguing that a simple assertion of ownership of a claim to the property is not enough to put Expedia on notice of potential violations.
California investment firms that hold a $1.5 billion stake in online retail giant Coupang have threatened to bring a treaty claim against South Korea over "a whole-of-government pressure campaign" initiated against the company and have asked the Trump administration to intervene, as well.
Amazon is pushing back against an intellectual property lawyer's effort to escape a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring with a Chinese company to sidestep a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule, arguing the claims were properly pled and that the Seattle federal court is the proper venue.
A Maryland federal judge Thursday allowed the manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge to press ahead, for now, with its request to invoke a nearly two-centuries-old maritime law to limit its liability for the 2024 wreck.
Mercuria Energy Group urged the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to revive the Cypriot commodities trader's bid to enforce a since-annulled $40 million arbitral award against Poland, saying the United States' commitment to its arbitration-related treaty obligations is at stake.
New securities class action filings fell overall last year, along with aggregate settlement values and attorney fees, but the emergence of tariff-related suits could present a new trend in filings in response to actions taken by the U.S. government, according to a recent National Economic Research Associates Inc. report.
The Trump administration’s continuing overhaul of the Bureau of Industry and Security has created enormous practical challenges for export compliance, but it potentially also offers a once-in-a-generation opening to advocate for simplifying and rationalizing U.S. export controls, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
As political and legal landscapes continue to shift across key global jurisdictions, with Mexico and England instituting key judicial and arbitral reforms, respectively, international arbitration parties are becoming increasingly strategic in their selection of arbitral seats, say attorneys at Cleary.
In 2025, the Federal Circuit's increased output was not enough to keep up with its ever-growing patent case load, and patent owners and applicants fared poorly overall as the court's affirmance rate fell, says Dan Bagatell at Perkins Coie.
The False Claims Act remains a powerful enforcement tool after some record verdicts and settlements in 2025, and while traditional fraud areas remain a priority, new initiatives are raising questions about its expanding application, says Veronica Nannis at Joseph Greenwald.
Opening my home to foreign exchange students makes me a better lawyer not just because prioritizing visiting high schoolers forces me to hone my organization and time management skills but also because sharing the study-abroad experience with newcomers and locals reconnects me to my community, says Alison Lippa at Nicolaides Fink.
A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.
Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.
A former lawyer at SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's firm said Thursday that Goldstein told coworkers that the more than $960,000 in cash he brought off a flight from Hong Kong — the source of which is integral to the government's case — had come from a client.
The American Bar Association said attorneys have a limited responsibility to convey information to former clients or successor counsel that was not within the client's file, when doing so is necessary to protect a client's interests and reasonably practicable, according to a new ethics opinion.
A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of federal criminal subpoenas would endanger and further traumatize victims of crime, most of whom lack legal representation to fight the invasive demands, victims' rights advocates told a federal rules advisory committee on Thursday.
Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.
National litigation news outlet Courthouse News Service has voluntarily and permanently dropped claims against a Washington, D.C., Superior Court clerk and the executive officer of the D.C. courts over filing delays, with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.
