Justices Deny Samsung's Bid To Toss Minn. Battery Suit

By Mike Curley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from Samsung SDI Co. seeking to overturn a Minnesota appeals court ruling finding it must face a suit over an exploding vape pen battery.

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Justices Pass On Samsung's Texas Battery Jurisdiction Fight

By Jonathan Capriel

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review litigation regarding a Samsung SDI Co. battery that exploded in a man's pocket, leaving unanswered a multi-appellate court split over whether a company that sells products into a state can avoid jurisdiction by claiming it intended the goods to be sold to corporate clients and not general consumers.

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German Steel Antidumping Duty Misses Mark Again, CIT Finds

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce must further justify various aspects of its latest analysis reaching a new antidumping margin for a German exporter of steel forged fluid end blocks, according to an opinion published Monday by the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Petrofac Fined By HMRC For Russian Sanctions Breach

By Christopher Crosby

HM Revenue and Customs said Monday that a U.K. energy firm has paid a £569,000 ($753,000) penalty for breaching sanctions regulations which prohibited the export of industrial goods to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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ITC To Probe Bobcat Imports After Caterpillar Complaint

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. International Trade Commission has opened an investigation into whether construction equipment maker Doosan Bobcat imported certain heavy machinery that infringed rival Caterpillar Inc.'s patents.

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Australian, Norwegian Silicon Metal Face Final Duty Rates

By Jack McLoone

Australian and Norwegian silicon metal imported into the U.S. could be hit with countervailing and antidumping duties following U.S. Department of Commerce final determinations Monday.

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SEC Fines Merrill Lynch $7.5M For Unfiled Reports

By Sydney Price

Bank of America subsidiary Merrill Lynch will pay $7.5 million to settle claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it violated securities laws by failing to further investigate certain transactions processed by its suspicious activity detection system.

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Authorities Investigating €13M VAT Fraud In Paris Area

By Jack McLoone

Authorities have conducted searches in and around France's capital region as part of an investigation into a €13 million ($17.2 million) value-added tax fraud scheme involving 26 French companies, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Monday.

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Citibank Defeats Texas Man's $20M NFT Romance Scam Suit

By Hailey Konnath

A New York federal judge Monday threw out a Texas man's suit accusing Citibank NA of ignoring red flags that allowed scammers to siphon nearly $4 million from his family trusts after he fell for a social media romance scam involving nonfungible tokens.

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Chinese Broker Futu Hit With Investor Suit Over Penalty Risk

By Sydney Price

China-based brokerage firm operator Futu Holdings Ltd. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in New York federal court accusing it of concealing risks associated with its noncompliance with Chinese securities laws, causing company shares to fall by nearly a third of their value when Futu disclosed regulatory shortcomings.

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Seattle Judge Merges Amazon IEEPA Tariff Refund Suits

By Jack McLoone

A federal judge in Seattle consolidated a pair of proposed class actions brought by Amazon customers looking to recover millions of dollars in refunds for the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, as the two suits made essentially identical allegations.

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Managing Post-IEEPA Tariff Refunds, Replacements And Risks

Companies and investors reeling from the rapid changes resulting from February's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't authorize tariffs should focus on understanding the duty refund process, the likely replacement tariffs and the operational ways they can minimize their tariff exposure, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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8 Ways 2026's Market Divide Is Rewriting Real Estate Risk

As construction activity increasingly concentrates in data centers, healthcare and other resilient sectors, real estate developers and their counsel in the second half of 2026 should consider earlier risk allocation and more protective contract terms, and expect greater pressure on labor, pricing and infrastructure, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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Ill. Law Firm MSO Bill Clashes With Court Power, Ethics Rules

An Illinois bill prohibiting law firms from certain business arrangements with management service organizations, sent to the governor for signature last week, encroaches upon the courts' constitutional powers and goes beyond the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct in regulating investment in law-related services, says Matthew O’Hara at Smith Gambrell.

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Trump Nominates Just Confirmed La. Judge For 5th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Anna St. John has been on the federal bench for less than four months, and now she's being elevated to a higher court.

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High Court Scraps Caps On Coordinated Campaign Spending

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on political party spending in coordination with individual candidates, agreeing with a Republican-led challenge that the caps violate the First Amendment.

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Gordon Rees Adds 8 Partners In Northern California

By Tracey Read

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has expanded its offices in Northern California with eight new partners who have expertise in multiple practice areas, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.

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NY State Bar Wants New Bar Exam Rules For Emergencies

By Kevin Penton

Following two recent incidents that drew scrutiny over their handling, the New York State Bar Association is calling for new standardized protocols to be followed should emergencies occur during the administration of the bar exam.

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NC City Beats Ex-Paralegal's Besmirched Reputation Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina city's characterization of how a fired paralegal allegedly misused city resources is not enough to sustain her suit accusing the city of trampling on her reputation and using her as a scapegoat for her boss's misdeeds, a federal judge said in throwing out the case.

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Uber, FedEx Slam Pa. Law Firm Counterclaims In RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC and its founder have failed to support a counterclaim in Pennsylvania federal court saying Uber Technologies Inc. and FedEx Corp. filed a sham litigation and abused the legal process with their ongoing RICO complaint against the firm, the companies argued Monday.

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Buchalter Real Estate Partner Joins Holland & Knight In LA

By Adrian Cruz

Holland & Knight LLP announced that an experienced real estate finance attorney who most recently practiced at Buchalter PC has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner.

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Office Snapshot: Hogan Lovells Set To Reclaim Turf In Boston

By Chris Villani

Amid Hogan Lovells' rapid growth in multiple practice areas and ahead of its merger with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, the firm has expanded its downtown Boston office to include space for more than a dozen additional attorneys.

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NJ Assembly Passes Litigation Funding Disclosure Bill

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin after similar pending legislation in the state Senate received pushback from trial lawyers and litigation finance representatives.

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McCarter Atty Says He Didn't Know NY Law Before $20M Deals

By Brian Steele

A onetime McCarter & English LLP partner in Hartford testified Tuesday that he did not research New York's municipal contracting laws before helping two insurers enter into doomed $20 million loan repayment agreements with a Long Island town, but contended that he was under no obligation to do so.

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