President Donald Trump continued the U.S. trade offensive against Canada after its northern neighbor's retaliatory tariffs went into effect, announcing a ban on Canadian imports of certain alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles starting this month.
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US Bans Canadian Alcohol, Motorcycles After Tariff Retaliation

By Jack McLoone

President Donald Trump continued the U.S. trade offensive against Canada after its northern neighbor's retaliatory tariffs went into effect, announcing a ban on Canadian imports of certain alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles starting this month.

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Economists Tell Fed. Circ. Float Rates Bar Temporary Tariff

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump's temporary global tariff lacked legal justification in the current international monetary system, a group of economists, including former U.S. Treasury secretary and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, told the Federal Circuit on Wednesday in a brief supporting challenges to the duties.

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Ford Says DOT Concern Over China Tech 'Wrongheaded'

By Jack McLoone

Ford Motor Co. pushed back on U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's "profound concern" over what he said was too close of a relationship between it and a Chinese battery manufacturer, saying the claims are unfounded and don't mesh with other administration stances.

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Roman Abramovich Loses 3rd EU Sanctions Challenge

By Sophia Dourou

Roman Abramovich failed on Wednesday in his third attempt to lift European Union sanctions against him after a court ruled that the billionaire was designated over activities "providing substantial revenue" to Russia.

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Analysis

Citi Fine Warns Firms To Stress-Test Sanctions Controls

By Christopher Crosby

Citibank's fine for violating the U.K. sanctions regime shows that the enforcer will punish companies for serious breaches even if there was no intent to break the rules, underscoring the need for firms to stress-test their screening systems, lawyers say.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

Cambodia Joins WTO Appeal Arbitration Arrangement

By Jack McLoone

Cambodia has joined a World Trade Organization appeal arbitration agreement designed as an alternative to the WTO's main appellate body, bringing the total number of participants to 62 and covering over 60% of global trade, the European Commission said Wednesday.

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ENFORCEMENT

Feds' NY RICO Case Against Huawei Packs A Punch, Jury Told

By Stewart Bishop

The Brooklyn federal jury in the landmark corporate criminal trial of Huawei on Wednesday heard a prosecutor say they'll have an insider's view of the company's vast criminal operations that relied on stolen trade secrets to grow and kept banks in the dark about its sanctions compliance, while a top executive's deal with the government will seal the fate of the Chinese telecommunications giant.

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LITIGATION

Va. Judge Tosses Bulk Of EB-5 Investors' Fraud Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A Virginia federal judge has nixed multiple claims lodged by a group of 14 Vietnamese EB-5 project investors against a law firm and other parties that allegedly refused to provide investment refunds for a "doomed" hotel redevelopment project.

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Fed. Circ. Eyes PTAB Cases That May Sink $445M Netlist Win

By Ryan Davis

A $445 million verdict against Micron Technology Inc. for infringing two Netlist Inc. computer memory patents hung in the balance Wednesday, as a Federal Circuit panel questioned Netlist's arguments that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly found claims in both patents invalid.

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PEOPLE

Munger Tolles Adds Paul Hastings IP Pro In San Francisco

By Gina Kim

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP has added to its growing San Francisco intellectual property practice with a partner from Paul Hastings LLP, whose high-profile clients include Meta, Google, Comcast and Netflix, the firm announced Tuesday. 

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Planning For The Impact Of FinCEN's CTA Rollback

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's recent rollback of Corporate Transparency Act reporting obligations should reduce compliance costs, but its plans to revisit customer due diligence rules should prompt companies and financial institutions to reassess state beneficial ownership programs, say attorneys at Sidley.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

DOJ Says Berkeley Law Is Racially Biased In Admissions

By Craig Clough

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law discriminated against white and Asian applicants in its 2024 and 2025 admissions cycles by preferring Black applicants because of their race, violating federal civil rights law and recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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Murdaugh Murder Retrial Venue Shift Fueled By Bias Concern

By Emily Sawicki

A South Carolina trial court has approved a request to move Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial to a different county, finding the disgraced attorney could not expect a fair trial in Colleton County, where his wife and son were killed and where he was previously convicted for the crimes.

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Sugar Buyers Want Paul Weiss DQ'd From Price-Fixing MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers urged a Minnesota federal judge Tuesday to disqualify Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP from representing Domino Foods in sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing the firm is conflicted out because it saw their confidential sugar-purchasing data when it was being considered as plaintiffs' counsel.

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Virginia Law Prof Says He'll Take USPTO General Counsel Job

By Jack Rodgers

A University of Virginia School of Law professor who has taught tort, administrative, patent and international intellectual property law there for more than 15 years recently said he plans to become the new general counsel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Hogan Lovells Partner Tapped For Mass. Judgeship

By Julie Manganis

A Hogan Lovells Cadwalader senior partner has been nominated to a seat as an associate justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court, the governor's office announced Wednesday.

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Kilpatrick Atty Tapped For Yakima County Bench In Wash.

By Ben Adlin

Washington's governor appointed Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP litigator Bree R. Black Horse to the Yakima County Superior Court bench on Wednesday, filling the first new position added to that court in nearly three decades.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

American International & Immigration Law

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

Fenwick & West

Finnegan

Gesmer Updegrove

Griffin Humphries

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Impresa Legal Group

Jenner & Block

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Macfarlanes LLP

MoloLamken

Munger Tolles

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Ropes & Gray

Roth Jackson

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Steptoe LLP

Sterne Kessler

Willcox & Savage

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amperex Technology Ltd.

Apple Inc.

BNP Paribas SA

Basic Fun Inc.

Boston College

Cisco Systems Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Comcast Corp.

Cornell University

Deutsche Bank AG

Duke University

EE Ltd.

Ford Motor Co.

Fujitsu Ltd.

Futurewei Technologies Inc.

Geely Automobile Holdings

General Mills Inc.

George Washington University

Google LLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

Kellanova Co.

Kellogg Co.

Lenovo Group Ltd.

LinkedIn Corp.

Mars Inc.

McKee Foods Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Micron Technology Inc.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Netflix Inc.

Netlist Inc.

Norilsk Nickel

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle University

Standard Chartered PLC

Super Micro Computer Inc.

The Hershey Co.

The J. M. Smucker Co.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

University of Virginia

VCG Holding Corp.

Yakima Herald-Republic

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Reserve System

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

General Court of the EU

International Trade Commission

New York State Department of State

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Seminole Nation

South Carolina Attorney General's Office

Stillaguamish Tribe

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana

World Trade Organization