Maduro Decries 'False Testimony,' Denies Torture Charges

By Pete Brush

Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife pled not guilty to torture and narcoterrorism charges Thursday, a week after Manhattan federal prosecutors accused the former Caracas power couple of a 25-year course of brutality against political rivals.

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Naftogaz Hit With Dutch Setback Over $4.2B Russia Award

By Caroline Simson

A Dutch appeals court has ruled that a $4.2 billion arbitral award issued to Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company after Russia seized its Crimean assets "must be" partially set aside, according to documents filed in federal court Thursday.

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Trade Court Sustains Malaysian Wind Tower Duty Calculations

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce has now properly justified various decisions it made during a countervailing duty administrative review of a Malaysian utility wind tower producer, the U.S. Court of International Trade found, rejecting many of the company's objections as baseless.

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Huawei Founder Played It Cool In FBI Interview, Jury Hears

By Stewart Bishop

A former FBI agent on Thursday told a Brooklyn federal jury about an interview he conducted with Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, saying the executive suggested that the Chinese telecommunications firm had no direct dealings with Iran and respected intellectual property rights.

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FERC Makes Further Moves To Speed Up Gas Project Reviews

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday issued a pair of proposals aimed at speeding up its approval of gas infrastructure projects by narrowing the scope of the agency's environmental reviews.

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Commerce Finalizes Duty Rates For Brazilian, Norwegian Pulp

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Deparment of Commerce on Thursday finalized its determinations that high-purity dissolving pulp imported into the country from Brazil and Norway are being sold at unfair prices, setting up possible duty rates.

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Sweden's Biggest Bank To Pay $33M NY Fine Over AML Gaps

By Jon Hill

New York's financial services regulator has ordered Sweden's largest bank to pay a $33 million fine to resolve findings of past anti-money laundering deficiencies at its Baltic subsidiaries that allegedly exposed U.S. banks to heightened financial crimes risk.

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Zoom Can't Move Ricoh Patent Suit From Delaware To Calif.

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal court denied Thursday a bid from Zoom Communications Inc. to move a patent infringement suit brought by Japanese camera and electronics maker Ricoh Co. Ltd. to California, ruling that keeping the case in Delaware was more convenient.

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Wilson Sonsini Hires Baker Botts Nat'l Security Lead In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has hired the former head of Baker Botts LLP's national security and trade risk mitigation team, who has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Wednesday.

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Importer Risk Rises As AI Enters Trade Fraud Enforcement

The Trump administration's new data-driven and artificial intelligence-enabled push against tariff evasion raises the stakes for companies with global supply chains, making it crucial that they consider strengthening response protocols, documentation and internal reporting mechanisms, say attorneys at Cooley.

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Cyber Incident Halts Bankruptcy Court Noticing Nationwide

By Hilary Russ

The nationwide system for providing notice to creditors in bankruptcy cases has been disrupted by a cybersecurity incident, and it is not currently known when the outage will end.

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Missouri AG Alumni Make Their Mark In Trump 2.0

By Courtney Bublé

Missouri is hundreds of miles from Washington, D.C., but the legal community of the Show-Me State has taken a significant hold in the second Trump administration.

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Norton Rose Beats $100M Suit Over Withdrawn Patent App

By Celeste Bott

Norton Rose Fulbright has defeated a former client's malpractice suit over a missed patent fee payment, after an Illinois state judge ruled that the deadline to sue began before the firm allegedly acknowledged its mistake and dismissed the company's $100 million lawsuit against the firm with prejudice.

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Murdaugh Tells 4th Circ. To Revive Jury Tampering Civil Suit

By Cara Salvatore

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh asked the Fourth Circuit on Thursday to revive his suit accusing a court clerk of interfering in his murder trial, arguing he has standing because the alleged tampering "destroyed the value" of his $600,000 defense.

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Judge Who Called For Philly DA Probe Rejects Recusal Bid

By Matthew Santoni

A federal judge who called for an investigation of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office will not reconsider or recuse himself from the underlying habeas corpus case, calling DA Larry Krasner's bid to undo his rulings "frivolous" and "intemperate."

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Crowell Faces DQ Bid Over AI Tool At Heart Of Client's IP Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

DeviantArt urged a California federal judge Wednesday to disqualify Crowell & Moring LLP from representing Evox Productions in litigation alleging multiple AI companies used Evox's copyrighted car photos to train artificial-intelligence image generators, arguing the firm "unquestionably" represented DeviantArt and has "sued its own client on behalf of another client."

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Gov't Urges Justices To Reject Google, Intel Fight Over Fintiv

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Intel Corp. and Google LLC's challenge to a precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to be denied based on related litigation.

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Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Slams Feds' Skewed Facts

By Lauren Berg

A woman accused of trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told the Fourth Circuit that federal prosecutors have presented a "wildly inaccurate description" of a Maryland federal judge's sentencing decision, rejecting their argument that she got off too easy because of her gender identity.

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NYC Sanctuary Policies Survive Trump Admin. Lawsuit

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge on Thursday tossed the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging New York City policies that the administration alleged unconstitutionally obstruct federal immigration enforcement, saying federal law the administration leaned on does not preempt the sanctuary provisions.

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