EU Lawmakers Agree To Include Safeguards In US Trade Deal

By Dylan Moroses

The Parliament and Council of the European Union reached a provisional agreement Wednesday morning to strengthen safeguards to the trade deal reached last year with the U.S., according to a press release.

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Ikea, Mondelez Customers Seek Tariff Refunds In Illinois Suits

By Lauraann Wood

Furniture chain Ikea and snack giant Mondelez are the latest companies to get hit with Illinois lawsuits seeking refunds of tariffs customers say they ultimately paid through inflated product prices before the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately found the tariffs illegal.   

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DOJ, Canadian Steel Cos. Settle Duty Evasion Claims

By Dylan Moroses

Two Canadian steel companies settled the U.S. government's False Claims Act allegations that the exporters knowingly avoided U.S. duties on Asian and European flat-rolled steel products, agreeing to pay $19 million to resolve the dispute, according to a press release issued Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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ITC Clears Way For Duties On Imported Chassis

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission found chassis imported from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam and sold at unfair prices to be harming U.S. industry, setting the stage Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Commerce to order duties against the products.

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US Finalizes 91% Vietnamese Steel Pipe Duty On Review

By Jack McLoone

Welded steel pressure pipes imported from Vietnam into the U.S. will be subject to a 90.8% antidumping duty rate after the U.S. Department of Commerce finalized a review of the over-decade-old original duty order.

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La. Defends Challenged LNG Project Air Permit At 5th Circ.

By Tom Lotshaw

A Louisiana regulator told the Fifth Circuit environmental groups have no ground to support their challenge of a preconstruction permit approved for a major liquefied natural gas export terminal in Cameron Parish.

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Binance Libel Suit Doesn't Show Actual Malice, Dow Jones Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Dow Jones urged a New York federal judge to toss a defamation suit brought by Binance over a Wall Street Journal article saying the cryptocurrency exchange fired internal investigators who uncovered transactions that purportedly went to sanctioned Iranian-backed entities, arguing that Binance hadn't shown the article was published with actual malice.

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Baltimore Bridge Wreck Civil Trial Will Stay The Course

By Linda Chiem

A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday refused an eleventh-hour request from the Dali cargo ship's owner and manager to delay a trial that's starting in less than two weeks to determine the scope of liability and damages over Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, according to an attorney for certain claimants.

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Veon Investors Get Final OK For $20M Deal, Atty Fees

By Sydney Price

Telecommunications firm Veon Ltd. and its investors have received final approval of a nearly $20 million settlement to end claims the company defrauded shareholders by not disclosing it had paid bribes in Uzbekistan. 

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Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

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OpenAI Says ChatGPT Misuse Is Users' Responsibility

By Emily Sawicki

OpenAI has asked a federal judge in Chicago to end an insurance company's suit alleging it practices law without a license, arguing the complaint should be directed toward individuals who misuse the company's ChatGPT bot to file faulty motions, and not the generative AI platform itself.

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2nd Circ. Pick Questioned At Hearing On Role As Trump Lawyer

By Courtney Bublé

Matthew Schwartz, a nominee for the Second Circuit, was questioned by Democratic senators Wednesday about whether his current job as the president's personal attorney while his nomination process is underway poses a conflict of interest.

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Bad AI Citation Sanction Slashed Amid 7th Circ. Guidance

By Hailey Konnath

An Indiana federal judge Wednesday rejected a magistrate judge's recommendation that an attorney be sanctioned $7,500 for including faulty, artificial intelligence-generated legal citations in a discovery brief, pointing to recent Seventh Circuit guidance and sanctioning him $2,000 instead.

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2 Fla. County Courts Requiring AI Disclosure In Court Filings

By Sarah Martinson

Two Florida circuit courts in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are requiring attorneys and self-represented litigants to disclose when they use generative text tools to prepare their court filings and to certify they checked the generated content for accuracy.

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Hagens Berman Says Apple Smear Job Can't Stop Withdrawal

By Bonnie Eslinger

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP urged a California federal judge to allow one of its named plaintiffs to withdraw from an Apple iCloud antitrust case, saying Apple Inc.'s filed opposition is rife with "misdirection and ad hominem" attacks and not about the merits of the dispute but "smearing opposing counsel."

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Atty Withdrawals Not Limited To Fee Conflicts, ABA Says

By Emily Sawicki

Lawyers whose clients fail to hold up their end of valid engagement agreements are clear to cease their representation, so long as certain criteria are met, according to the American Bar Association's ethics committee's latest guidance, published Wednesday.

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Comey Wants Arraignment Pushed For Dismissal Bid

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI Director James Comey asked a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to postpone his arraignment on charges alleging he threatened President Donald Trump, telling a judge that he is preparing to seek to have the case thrown out on constitutional grounds.

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Mich. Supreme Court Mulls Remote Court Access Rules

By Susan Smiley

The Michigan Supreme Court held administrative hearings on Wednesday concerning several proposed amendments to Michigan court rules, including adding more specific guidelines for remote hearings, making language services free for civil cases, and allowing law students and recent law graduates to appear on behalf of indigent people in all Michigan courts.

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