New proposed U.S. tariffs meant to address goods tied to forced labor are likely to create new administrative burdens for importers, from new compliance hurdles domestically to the potential for retaliatory measures by trading partners on U.S. goods shipped abroad, attorneys told Law360.
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4 Key Questions Surrounding US Forced Labor Tariff Rates

By Dylan Moroses

New proposed U.S. tariffs meant to address goods tied to forced labor are likely to create new administrative burdens for importers, from new compliance hurdles domestically to the potential for retaliatory measures by trading partners on U.S. goods shipped abroad, attorneys told Law360.

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EU, African Countries Reach First-Of-Its-Kind Trade Deal

By Jack McLoone

The European Union and four African countries have reached a deal on the bloc's first free trade agreement with sub-Saharan African nations in the hopes of mutual economic benefits, the European Commission said Wednesday.

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Trade Court Bars Chemical Duty Hike Despite Reclassing

By Jack McLoone

U.S. Customs and Border Protection can't collect higher duties on a chemical mixture used to manufacture thermoplastics even though the U.S. Court of International Trade found the mixture meets the definition of a substance subject to a higher rate, the court ruled, citing a statutory time limit.

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2nd Circuit Rejects Nadine Menendez's Bail Bid During Appeal

By Phillip Bantz

A Second Circuit panel rejected Nadine Menendez's request for bail pending an appeal of her conviction in a bribery scheme involving her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, concluding the legal questions raised were not substantial enough to delay the start of her four-and-a-half-year prison term.

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LITIGATION

NHK Says Seagate Antitrust Revival 'Cries Out' For Justices

By Bryan Koenig

NHK Spring wants the U.S. Supreme Court to take on a Ninth Circuit decision reviving Seagate Technology LLC's hard drive component price-fixing lawsuit, arguing that U.S. antitrust law cannot touch overseas sales whose only American connection is their partial negotiation in the country.

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Tenn. Remittance Tax Is Unconstitutional, Fintech Group Says

By Jon Hill

A top fintech industry organization sued Wednesday to block an impending new Tennessee tax on outgoing international money transfers, challenging what the trade group contends is an unconstitutional toll on the billions of dollars sent abroad from the state each year.

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Container Cos. Sued For Alleged Price-Fixing Scheme

By Matthew Perlman

Shipping container buyers filed a proposed class action over an alleged conspiracy among the world's largest container manufacturers to limit production and raise prices during the COVID-19 pandemic, on the heels of a criminal indictment last month.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Alston & Bird

Altman Nussbaum

Arnold & Itkin

Bochetto & Lentz

Boies Schiller

Butters Brazilian

Castagna Scott

Cozen O'Connor

Cuneo Gilbert

Desmarais LLP

Elsberg Baker

Faegre Drinker

Goody Law Group

Groom Law Group

Husch Blackwell

Keches Law Group

Kellogg Hansen

Kirkland & Ellis

Law Office of James M. Peterson

Lite DePalma

Manatt Phelps

Mazow McCullough PC

Milbank LLP

Monahan & Associates PC

Morgan & Morgan PA

Nix Patterson

Norton Rose

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Peck Baxter

Ray Peña McChristian

Sauder Schelkopf

Schertler Onorato

Seward & Kissel

Shapiro Haber

Sherrard Roe

Sidley Austin

Stowell Crayk

Susman Godfrey

Townsend Law Firm

Walters Balido

Watts Law Firm

Wilkinson Stekloff

Wilson Sonsini

Wright Close Barger & Guzman

Yetter Coleman

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Above the Law

Brooklyn Defender Services

Center for Family Representation Inc.

China International Marine Containers Ltd.

Daybreak Express Inc.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

Financial Technology Association

Harvard University

Hutchinson Technology Incorporated

Lanxess AG

Motorola Mobility LLC

NHK Spring

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Seagate Technology LLC

TDK Corp.

Target Corp.

The Bronx Defenders

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

State of Tennessee

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of North Dakota

United States District Court for the District of Utah

United States District Court for the District of Wyoming