Fourteen states, a U.S. senator from Missouri and others are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Second Circuit decision overturning a New York judge's $16 billion judgment against Argentina in a case that arose from its nationalization of YPF SA, the country's largest oil and gas exploration company.
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TOP NEWS

States, Others Back Argentina Sovereign Immunity Challenge

By Caroline Simson

Fourteen states, a U.S. senator from Missouri and others are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Second Circuit decision overturning a New York judge's $16 billion judgment against Argentina in a case that arose from its nationalization of YPF SA, the country's largest oil and gas exploration company.

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Trade Court Finds US Solar Coalition's Duty Challenge Moot

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Court of International Trade dismissed as moot a suit brought by U.S. solar manufacturers challenging U.S. International Trade Commission determinations regarding harm caused by Cambodian and Thai solar cell imports because the at-issue entries have already been processed. 

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Analysis

BofA's $1.2B AML Fine Shows Perils Of Tech Overreliance

By Sarah Jarvis

Bank of America's $1.2 billion deal with the U.S. Treasury Department over anti-money-laundering failures has put compliance officers at financial institutions on alert about the perils they could face if they don't have empowered in-house investigators and proper oversight of technological systems for transaction monitoring.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

China, Peru Modernize Free Trade Agreement

By Jack McLoone

China and Peru have updated their bilateral trade treaty to both update existing provisions and add new ones aimed at addressing changes in commerce and global trade since the deal was first reached in 2009, the two countries said.

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INVESTIGATIONS & REVIEWS

Brief

Oil Pipes From Austria, Taiwan, UAE Face Duties

By Jack McLoone

Pipes known as oil country tubular goods imported from Austria, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates could be hit with double-digit antidumping duties after the U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily found on Tuesday that they are being sold at less than fair value.

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LITIGATION

Energy Co. Directors Sued Over China Supply Chain Claims

By Keith Goldberg

The top brass of Bloom Energy Corp. on Tuesday were hit with another lawsuit claiming they misled shareholders by understating the extent to which the renewable energy company depended on Chinese scandium, a critical raw material used in its fuel cells.

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Tribe Says Pipeline Harm Statement Shouldn't Be Dismissed

By Joyce Hanson

A Native American tribe has asked a D.C. federal judge not to strike its natural resources director's statement about potential harm the Army Corps of Engineers will cause by allowing Enbridge Energy to reroute 41 miles of a pipeline around the tribe's lands.

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Boeing, Bell Textron Say No Jury Trial For Osprey Crash Suit

By Mike Curley

The Boeing Co., Bell Textron Inc. and Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc. are urging a Pennsylvania federal court to deny a bid for a jury trial from the families of U.S. service members killed in a November 2023 V-22 Osprey crash.

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Apple Gets Sync Streaming App's Antitrust Suit Sent To Calif.

By Rae Ann Varona

A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday granted Apple Inc.'s bid to transfer a communal streaming app developer's antitrust lawsuit against it to California, saying "court congestion" and "local interest" weigh in favor of moving the case to the Golden State.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

10 Ways AI Labs Can Limit Antitrust Risks Of Safety Pacts

The OpenAI CEO’s recent call for artificial intelligence laboratories to collectively slow development to allow safety research to catch up invites antitrust scrutiny, but the risks to coordinating competitors can be managed by carefully structuring pacing agreements and layering their approach to compliance, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Analysis

Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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Analysis

Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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Vedder Will Move NYC Staff To New Manhattan Office

By Isaac Monterose

Vedder's New York City staff will move to a new downtown Manhattan office sometime in 2027 after the law firm signed a 49,000-square-foot lease in a 2.6-million-square-foot office tower, according to landlord Rockefeller Group.

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Ogletree Adds Ex-Amazon Employment Atty To Seattle Office

By Rachel Riley

A leading in-house employment attorney for Amazon has departed to join Ogletree Deakins' Seattle office, bringing expertise helping Fortune 50 companies navigate workforce challenges to the firm.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Ashurst Perkins

Axinn

Blank Rome

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Debevoise & Plimpton

Foley & Lardner

Gagliano Law Offices

Gibson Dunn

Goldstein & Russell

Goodwin Procter

Grabar Law

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Holtzman Vogel

Hunton Andrews

Jackson Lewis PC

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Loretta A. Preska

Morgan Lewis

Ogletree Deakins

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Rigrodsky Law

Saiber LLC

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Trade Pacific PLLC

Troutman

Volkov Law Group

Walsh Pizzi

Weil Gotshal

Wiley Rein

Wisner Baum

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Express Co.

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Arcelormittal Texas HBI LLC

Bank of America Corp.

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Bloom Energy

Burford Capital LLC

Canadian Solar Inc.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Earthjustice

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

Ennis Inc.

Eton Park Capital Management LP

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

International Legal Finance Association

Line 5 LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund

Omni Bridgeway Ltd.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Panda Restaurant Group Inc.

Repsol SA

Rockefeller Group International Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Textron Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Toronto-Dominion Bank

Trina Solar Ltd.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc.

YPF SA

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

International Trade Administration

International Trade Commission

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Tennessee Department of Health

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

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

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana

Virginia Attorney General's Office

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources