Senate Finance Committee Approves ITC Commissioner Picks

By Dylan Moroses

The Senate Finance Committee approved five nominees to serve as commissioners for the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday.

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US Trade Fraud Task Force Recovers Over $1B In 10 Months

By Dylan Moroses

In just under a year, the U.S. has recovered over $1 billion as a result of enforcement efforts led by the cross-agency Trade Fraud Task Force, and the U.S. Department of Justice will establish a new legal section to prosecute trade crimes, a department official said Tuesday. 

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9th Circ. Erases Comet's $40M Trade Secret Verdict

By Ivan Moreno

A split Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday overturned Comet Technologies USA's $40 million trade secret verdict against XP Power and ordered a new trial, holding in a precedential decision that the jury was wrongly instructed that XP had to prove Comet's claimed secrets could have been lawfully discovered or reverse-engineered.

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DOJ Drops Trade Secrets Case Against DuPont Rival Mid-Trial

By Lauren Berg

Just a few days into the start of a monthlong trial, the U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its 15-year-old criminal espionage case alleging a group of related Chinese steel companies stole DuPont Co. trade secrets for creating titanium dioxide.

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1st Circ. Backs CDC Ban On Importing Dogs Under 6 Months

By Carolyn Muyskens

The First Circuit has upheld a rule requiring all dogs imported into the U.S. to be at least six months of age, saying the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had shown it was a reasonable measure to fight rabies.

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No Block On NZ Fish Imports, But Trade Court Case Continues

By Jack McLoone

While the U.S. Court of International Trade refused to preliminarily block imports of New Zealand fish that are caught in a manner that a conservation group said harms dolphins, the court also refused to dismiss the case altogether because the group has standing to bring the suit.

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Nadine Menendez Can't Reclaim Jewelry During Appeal

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied Nadine Menendez's bid to force the return of jewelry seized from her home during a bribery investigation tied to her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, ruling that the government had lawfully taken the items and can keep them while her appeal is pending.

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Brief

EU Calls For WTO To Modernize To Handle New Issues

By Jack McLoone

Momentum must keep carrying forward to adopt much-needed changes to World Trade Organization rules that haven't been updated to deal with modern issues since being established in 1995, the European Union said Tuesday.

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US Refunded $49.2B In Tariffs Last Month, Treasury Says

By Kevin Pinner

The U.S. government issued tariff refunds totaling more than $49.2 billion in June, dragging down customs duties to account for a monthly net loss of $25.5 billion in the federal accounts, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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Key Witness In Halkbank Exec's Sanctions Trial Avoids Prison

By Stewart Bishop

A Turkish-Iranian businessman-turned-linchpin cooperator in the trial of a Halkbank executive has been spared further incarceration over his role in an alleged $20 billion scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil and gas proceeds through bribery and illicit transactions that laundered payments to Iran's government.

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'Bulletproof Hosting' Providers Indicted For Aiding Hacks

By Allison Grande

A trio of Russian nationals and the "bulletproof hosting" services they operated have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Ohio on charges that they helped facilitate cyberattacks against banks, hospitals and other critical infrastructure operators across nearly two dozen states and several countries, leading to more than $62 million in losses, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

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Md. Terminal Sues Bruks Over Failed Bulk Handling System

By Jared Foretek

A Baltimore-area marine terminal sued its bulk material handling system provider Monday in Maryland federal court, claiming that the system failed after processing less than 26,000 tons — a fraction of the 5-million-ton capacity Bruks claimed the system could handle — and seeking more than $2 million in damages.

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2 Firms Tapped To Lead Super Micro Investor Action

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge has appointed Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP to lead a now-consolidated investor class action alleging Super Micro Computer failed to disclose that a large portion of its server sales were made to Chinese companies in transactions that violated U.S. export controls and led to three arrests.

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Former Deputy Patent Commissioner Kim Joins Jones Day

By Dani Kass

A newly departed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deputy commissioner with a strong background in artificial intelligence has joined Jones Day as a partner in its global intellectual property practice, the firm said Tuesday.

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Lessons On Contingency Planning From OFAC's Iran Reversal

The Office of Foreign Assets Control‘s abrupt revocation of a recent license easing sanctions on Iranian oil products shows commercial dealings relying on OFAC licenses or with higher sanctions risks should expressly address what happens if a policy change makes performance prohibited, says Michelle Roberts at Berliner Corcoran.

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What Actually Matters To GCs During Cross-Border Disputes

A recent international arbitration forum featured an in-house perspective on dispute resolution, highlighting that relationship preservation and other factors may matter more to businesses than success on legal merits, say Michael Mutek at Womble Bond and Mark Stadnyk at Thyssenkrupp Nucera.

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Reviving Prize Law Would Reshape Maritime Seizure Risks

Recent U.S. maritime interdictions of sanctioned tankers and shadow fleet vessels raise urgent questions about whether civil forfeiture or prize law — a framework that has not been meaningfully tested since the Spanish-American War — governs and the potential impacts on vessel owners, charterers and insurers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Analysis

Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To The US Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.

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Simpson Thacher Put Co. Out Of Business, Fla. Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP put an insurance services company out of business with a poorly constructed private securities offering, the company's founder told a Florida state jury Wednesday in opening arguments for trial in his suit alleging the law firm owes him more than $100 million.

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New Conn. High Court Rules Put Filers On Hook For AI Errors

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts have published new generative artificial intelligence rules which took immediate effect this week, outlining additional paths for sanctions as the justices weigh the fate of a landlord's attorney who admitted his filings contained ChatGPT-induced errors.

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Cornyn, Tillis Still Waver On Blanche AG Bid After Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Todd Blanche had his nomination hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday and two key Republican senators still have yet to say if they will support him.

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Senate Confirms Fla. Judge Pick Tied To Trump Pulitzer Case

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, Wednesday to confirm state Chief Judge Jeffrey T. Kuntz for the Southern District of Florida.

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Apple Allowed To Question Withdrawing Hagens ICloud Client

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge has allowed Apple to impose conditions on the withdrawal of a Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP client as a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case, concluding that the consumer's information could be "relevant to spoliation sanctions" or Hagens Berman's adequacy as class counsel.

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Polsinelli, Doctor Seek Toss Of 'Bad Faith' Patent Claims

By Elliot Weld

Polsinelli PC and a doctor who has been a client of the law firm have asked Mississippi and Tennessee federal courts to throw out Zavation Medical Products LLC and Choice Spine LLC's allegations that the firm and its client violated respective state laws by bringing "bad faith" patent infringement claims, saying the statutes the medical device makers rely on can't be brought by distributors or manufacturers.

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Trump Swiftly Fires Court-Appointed Seattle US Atty

By Lauren Berg

Almost immediately after being sworn in as Seattle's new U.S. attorney Wednesday morning, former King County Superior Court judge and federal prosecutor Roger Rogoff was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Dems Probe Clayton's Independence, 2020 Election Views

By Tom Lotshaw

During a Wednesday confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick for national intelligence director, Democratic lawmakers pressed Jay Clayton to explain whether predecessor Tulsi Gabbard should have traveled to Georgia to oversee a search warrant executed at a Fulton County election facility, which she testified the president asked for.

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