CIT Judge Orders That All IEEPA Tariffs Must Be Refunded

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. government must refund any tariff charged under President Donald Trump's now-struck-down International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariff regime, regardless of whether the affected company filed suit at the U.S. Court of International Trade seeking a refund, a CIT judge ordered Wednesday.

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US To Hike Global Tariffs To 15% This Week, Bessent Says

By Kevin Pinner

The U.S. will "likely" raise the rate of its global tariff regime to 15% this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday, all but ensuring that the country's total tariff rates will exceed agreed-upon limits in many key trade deals.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?

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Brief

Commerce Shrinks Korean Steel Firms' Subsidy Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Wednesday said two South Korean producers of cold-rolled steel could receive lower countervailing duty rates on their imports into the U.S. following a review of the benefits they receive from foreign subsidies.

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ITC Probing Patent Infringement Claims Against ASUS, Others

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Wednesday it will investigate claims made by AX Wireless that laptops, routers and computer products imported into the U.S. by ASUSTeK, TP-Link Systems Inc. and other companies are infringing five patents.

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ITC Investigating Electric Unicycle Imports For IP Infringement

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday opened an investigation into Inventist Inc. and partner Alien Rides' claim that five Chinese companies are importing into the U.S. electric unicycles that violate a pair of patents.

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Japanese Man Gets 20 Years For Trafficking Nuclear Materials

By Elaine Briseño

A New York federal judge has sentenced a Japanese national believed to be a leader in the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate to 20 years in prison for his role in conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar to other countries.

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50 Cent's Liquor Boss Gets 2nd Delay Of Fraud Sentencing

By Carla Baranauckas

A former executive at rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's liquor brand got his fraud sentence delayed for a second time when a New Jersey federal judge questioned Wednesday whether the executive's hypothetical cooperation with the government could get fair consideration under his plea deal.

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Housing Groups Slam $68M Colony Ridge Fair Lending Deal

By Jon Hill

Public interest groups are urging a Texas federal judge to reject the Trump administration's proposed settlement of a Biden-era predatory lending case against a Houston-area developer, arguing it would improperly bankroll immigration enforcement while stiffing harmed borrowers.

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NH Tech Co. Sues Rohde & Schwarz Over Signal Patents

By Elliot Weld

A New Hampshire technology company has sued a U.S. subsidiary of Rohde & Schwarz, claiming it infringed a set of patents covering wireless network optimization and requested at least $136 million in damages. 

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: In Court, It's About Storytelling

Law school provides doctrine, cases and hypotheticals, but when lawyers step into the courtroom, they must learn the importance of clarity, credibility, memorability and preparation — in other words, how to tell simple, effective stories, say Nicholas Steverson and Danielle Trujillo at Wheeler Trigg, and Lisa DeCaro at Courtroom Performance.

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Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."

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DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.

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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.

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Analysis

Trump's FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk

By Sarah Jarvis

In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.

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SEC, PCAOB Auditor Enforcement Plummeted In 2025

By Sarah Jarvis

Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.

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Comey, James Urge 4th Circ. To Reject Indictment Revival Bid

By Emily Sawicki

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.

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Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.

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