Trump Names 2 Picks For ITC Commissioner Spots

By Ryan Davis

President Donald Trump has nominated a counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives' intellectual property subcommittee and an assistant U.S. trade representative to be members of the U.S. International Trade Commission.

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Commerce Probing Claims Of Mattress Duties Evasion

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce is opening three investigations into claims that Mexican, Malaysian and Polish exporters are dodging antidumping duties on mattresses following complaints by domestic companies such as Serta Simmons Bedding and Tempur Sealy International, the agency said Monday.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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International Trade Group Of The Year: Covington

By Dylan Moroses

Covington & Burling LLP's trade practice was able to assist a Toyota unit through a major U.S. emissions fraud dispute and secured several other significant resolutions for clients across a wide range of matters, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.

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Brief

Chinese Sugar Alcohol Faces Triple-Digit Antidumping Duty

By Jack McLoone

Chinese producers of the sweetener erythritol are generally facing an over 184% antidumping duty on their U.S. imports alongside a countervailing duty following a U.S. Department of Commerce investigation, the agency said Monday.

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DOJ Scraps Criminal Antitrust Fragrances Probe

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice told a New Jersey federal judge Monday that it had closed its criminal probe looking for an anticompetitive conspiracy among fragrance giants, meaning its continued presence in private price-fixing litigation against the companies was no longer necessary.

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Cooperation Helps Ease 2 Sentences In NJ Ponzi Scheme

By George Woolston

Two of the government's key cooperating witnesses whose testimony and proffered evidence helped land the third conviction of Ponzi schemer Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein were sentenced on Monday in New Jersey federal court for their own roles in Weinstein's most recent scheme.

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Coal Exec Knew Egyptian Broker Paid Bribes, Jury Told

By Matthew Santoni

A former coal executive knew his Egyptian broker was passing along part of his commissions as bribes in exchange for $143 million in contracts, according to prosecutors' opening arguments Monday in his Pennsylvania jury trial for allegedly violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — while his attorneys said he was simply in the dark.

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NY Judge OKs $4M Bond While Wind Farm Case Is Appealed

By Joyce Hanson

A New York federal judge has stayed the enforcement of a judgment favoring a Chinese company against Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank in a wind farm dispute as the Vietnamese bank appeals an earlier order, also approving a $4 million bond tendered with OCB's motion to stay.

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US Backs Bid To Halt Line 5 Shutdown On Wis. Tribal Lands

By Crystal Owens

The government is backing a bid by Enbridge Energy Inc. to stay an order requiring the partial removal of its Line 5 pipeline that runs through Wisconsin tribal lands, saying that while it has an interest in protecting federal trust lands, the case implicates significant interests in foreign affairs.

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US Sets 19% Tariff On Bangladeshi Imports In Framework Deal

By Dylan Moroses

Certain imported goods from Bangladesh will enter the U.S. exempt from the 19% U.S. tariff applied to most merchandise from the country, according to a fact sheet published Monday along with the signing of the framework trade agreement between the two countries.

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The Little Tucker Act's Big Class Action Moment

The Little Tucker Act, which allows claims against the government for illegally exacted fees, is transforming from a niche procedural mechanism into a powerful vehicle for class action litigation, with more than $500 billion in such fees — including President Donald Trump's tariffs — now ripe for challenge, says Dinis Cheian at Susman Godfrey.

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Analysis

Circuit Split Brewing Following 5th Circ.'s No-Bond Ruling

By Britain Eakin

The Fifth Circuit's split ruling blessing the Trump administration's mandatory immigration detention policy won't be the final say on the matter, but it could supercharge efforts to concentrate detained immigrants there while other circuits weigh the policy's legality.

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Ex-McDermott Atty Fights 'Harassing' Subpoena In Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, saying the request serves no other purpose than to harass her.

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Kirkland Joins Growing Number Of Firms Launching In Tenn.

By Andrea Keckley

Kirkland & Ellis is joining a long line of firms setting their sights on Tennessee, announcing Tuesday that it would set up shop in Nashville with a team of former Butler & Snow LLP and King & Spalding LLP litigators.

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Amazon Calls FTC Allegations Of Hidden Documents 'Reckless'

By Bryan Koenig

Amazon.com assailed the Federal Trade Commission for accusing it of using auto-deleting Signal chats and improper privilege claims to hide evidence of rules that created an artificial pricing floor across online retail stores, asking a Washington federal judge to appoint a special master to handle the "inflammatory, close-of-discovery filings."

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Tom Goldstein To Testify At Tax Trial Wednesday

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein will take the stand in his tax fraud trial Wednesday, after the government rested its case with an IRS agent tallying up $3.6 million that she said went unreported on his 2016 tax return.

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Senate Confirms Burrows As DOJ Policy Chief

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Daniel Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.

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Lewis Brisbois, Ex-Paralegal Bring Dueling Suits Over Firing

By Adrian Cruz

Days after being sued to compel her to arbitrate her claims against the firm, a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP paralegal hit her ex-employer with a defamation suit claiming its actions tarnished her reputation and cost her a job at another firm.

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DOJ Pushes To Revive Comey, James Indictments

By Emily Sawicki

Criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were brought under a validly serving interim U.S. attorney and, therefore, never should have been dismissed, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in its opening brief in its consolidated appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

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