Analysis

New Risks For Importers As US Steps Up Tariff Enforcement

By Dylan Moroses

Importers and trade lawyers have seen an upswelling of tariff enforcement efforts that is transforming the compliance relationship between businesses and the government since President Donald Trump took office a second time.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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OCC Greenlights Brazil Banking Giant's Bid To Form US Bank

By Katryna Perera

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Thursday preliminarily approved a charter application from Brazil-based Itaú Unibanco SA, guided by Arnold & Porter, to establish a national bank in the United States.

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11th Circ. Saves Delta-Aeromexico Joint Venture

By Linda Chiem

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday handed Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico a decisive win by vacating a U.S. Department of Transportation order directing them to dismantle their nearly decadelong joint venture, saying the DOT applied a skewed standard and made unsupported findings about the partnership's purported anticompetitive effects.

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Instagram Algorithm Czar Tells Jury Safety Helps Profits

By Cara Salvatore

The Instagram executive responsible for the algorithm kicked off Meta's defense case Thursday over Tennessee's claims it concealed harm to youths' mental health, testifying the company's efforts to protect children also protect its bottom line.

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Mich. Gov. Hopeful Loses Bid For Fee-Based Ballot Access

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge Thursday dismissed a would-be gubernatorial candidate's challenge to the state's ballot-access requirements, rejecting his bid to require Michigan to offer candidates the option of paying a fee instead of collecting petition signatures. 

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Quakers Say Everglades ICE Site Teardown Needs Review

By Carolina Bolado

A southeastern regional Religious Society of Friends group filed a brief Wednesday in the ongoing suit over the now-shuttered immigrant detention center in the Everglades, arguing that environmental review is just as necessary when tearing the facility down as when it was being built.

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Suit Says 'Animus' Driving Feds' Push To Gut Climate Work

By Tom Lotshaw

An environmental group asked a Colorado federal judge to block a Trump administration push to end climate research programs at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and shutter its Mesa Lab headquarters in Boulder, calling it "the antithesis of reasoned decision-making."

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Latest Squires Order Grants 2 Patent Petitions, Denies None

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has issued a brief bulk order instituting a pair of America Invents Act petitions, including a Google challenge to a Valtrus Innovations patent, and saying he would assess the merits of four other patent challenges.

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Meta Atty 'Absolutely Wrong' On Client Privilege, Judge Warns

By Dorothy Atkins

With trial dark Thursday due to juror illness, a California judge overseeing states' claims that Meta Platforms Inc. hid social media's harms heard arguments over evidence, at one point criticizing Meta's efforts to assert attorney-client privilege and calling the company's in-house lawyer "absolutely wrong" about the appropriate standard.

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Selig Says CFTC Will Propose Crypto Rules If Clarity Act Stalls

By Aislinn Keely

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said Thursday that he's directed agency staff to begin crafting crypto rules in the event that crypto market structure legislation fails to move forward in September.

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Ruling Clears Path For Nov. 3 Vote On Miami Marina Project

By Nate Beck

A Florida state judge has declined to block a November voter referendum on a developer's proposed $80 million overhaul of a city-owned Miami marina site in a July lawsuit aiming to invalidate the deal brought by the marina's operator.

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Colo. County's Union-Law Suit Tossed Over Lack Of Standing

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge dismissed a county board of commissioners' complaint Thursday for lack of standing after finding that the county sought prospective relief only from a state law expanding county employees' right to unionize and that the county failed to allege any potential injury.

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Jury Finds Okla. Highway Contractor Guilty Of Price-Fixing

By Matthew Perlman

A federal jury in Oklahoma found a highway runoff contracting business and two of its employees guilty of antitrust violations for a price-fixing conspiracy that allegedly impacted $100 million in publicly funded construction contracts in the state.

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Ex-SMU Basketball Player Challenges NCAA Transfer Rules

By Spencer Brewer

A former player for the Southern Methodist University women's basketball team told a Texas federal judge that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's rules for athletes seeking to switch schools breach antitrust laws, saying she should be allowed to play for another team.

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CFPB Rips 'Baseless' CashCall Bid To Ax $157M Judgment

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged a California federal court to reject lender CashCall Inc.'s bid to wipe out its more than $157 million enforcement judgment, slamming its claims of a settlement bait-and-switch by the agency as "baseless."

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Sens. Call On FINRA To Update Rules To Curb Transfer Fraud

By Sarah Jarvis

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to boost consumer protections to prevent brokerage fraud through the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service, pointing to "structural weaknesses" in the system they say bad actors are exploiting to drain customers' brokerage accounts.

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Nintendo Customer Fights To Keep Tariff Refund Suit Alive

By Kevin Pinner

A Washington federal court should deny Nintendo's attempt to escape a proposed class action seeking reimbursement of costs that customers paid toward President Donald Trump's since-invalidated global tariff regime now that the company is pursuing refunds, a customer told the court.

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Ticket Buyers Ask 2nd Circ. To Nix Live Nation Arbitration

By Matthew Perlman

Concertgoers who purchased tickets on the secondary market are asking the Second Circuit to vacate a lower court's decision forcing them to arbitrate their antitrust claims against Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit.

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Senator Questions CBP Over Lifted Ban On Dominican Sugar

By Dylan Moroses

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee asked the Customs and Border Protection commissioner on Thursday why President Donald Trump's administration chose to allow imported sugar products from the Dominican Republic that were previously prohibited due to the company's alleged use of forced labor.

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Customs Must Free 1 Of 2 Chinese Tire Shipments, CIT Says

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. Customs and Border Protection must release one of two Chinese tire shipments it withheld for years initially due to a lack of identifying requirements, according to a Thursday opinion by the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Brief

Commerce Orders Duties On Aussie, Norwegian Silicon Metal

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday ordered antidumping and countervailing duties on silicon metals from Australia and Norway after the goods were found to be sold at unfair prices and to be harming domestic industry.

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Colo. Court Affirms Boulder Stormwater Fees Aren't Taxes

By Sanjay Talwani

Stormwater fees in Boulder, Colorado, that were used in part to repay $66 million in bonds are not taxes subject to voter approval under the state's Taxpayer Bill of Rights, an appeals court said Thursday, affirming a state district court.

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Dems Push For Probe Of LNG Tanker Tax Breaks At IRS

By Tom Lotshaw

Democratic senators Thursday urged a government watchdog to investigate whether the Internal Revenue Service has determined that liquefied natural gas exporters who use the fuel to propel their tankers can claim an alternative fuel tax credit.

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Illinois Must Face US Suit Over Immigrant Protection Laws

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to move ahead with its legal challenge to two state laws allowing private parties to sue civil immigration officers and barring civil immigration arrests at courthouses, saying the government has plausibly alleged that the threat of personal liability could impede officers charged with enforcing federal law.

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Judge Frees ICE Detainee Over Repeated Bond Missteps

By Britain Eakin

A Florida federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release a Colombia native from detention, finding an immigration judge's repeated denial of bond was based on factual inaccuracies.

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Group Demands Docs Over Feds' Immigration 'Propaganda'

By Ganesh Setty

A legal advocacy nonprofit accused the Trump administration in Washington, D.C., federal court Thursday of failing to provide information on the extent that taxpayer dollars were used to "fund propaganda while thwarting legitimate journalism" over its immigration enforcement efforts.

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Ethics Complaints Barred In Mass. Sheriff's Pot Extortion Trial

By Julie Manganis

The government cannot use records of past state ethics commission complaints against a Massachusetts sheriff in an extortion trial set to get underway next week, a federal judge said Thursday.

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Tax Biz Owner Charged In Scheme That May Have Bilked $65M

By Zak Kostro

A federal grand jury charged an Alabama tax preparation business owner with preparing and filing fraudulent returns for clients and himself in a scheme that may have caused the federal government a tax loss of more than $65 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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Fla. Panel Says Tribe Can Intervene In Parental Rights Case

By Joyce Hanson

A Florida appeals court has reversed a lower court's denial of the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians' request to intervene in a parental rights case, saying the tribe has the right to intervene under the Indian Child Welfare Act at any point in the proceeding.

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DOJ Pot Shift Changes LA Licensing Challenge, 9th Circ. Told

By Sam Reisman

A California attorney who has challenged state and local cannabis licensing policies across the country on the grounds that they discriminate against out-of-state entrants told the Ninth Circuit that recent federal shifts on medical marijuana mean the dormant commerce clause should apply to the once-federally illicit industry.

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Brief

Deutsche Bank Freed From Fed's 2017 Forex-Rigging Order

By Katryna Perera

The Federal Reserve has terminated a 2017 enforcement action that required Deutsche Bank to pay nearly $137 million over its alleged role in Wall Street's foreign exchange rate-rigging scandals.

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Series

Being In A Band Made Me A Better Lawyer

Playing shows in storied New York City venues and rehearsing with my bandmates in poorly ventilated rooms helped develop the professional qualities I rely on as a litigator, including an ability to collaborate with strong-minded equals and the determination to treat each client with singular focus, says Eliad Shapiro at Herrick Feinstein.

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CFPB Complaint Portal Overhaul Signals Changing Priorities

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's updates to its consumer complaint portal and decision to cease publishing consumer complaint narratives should be viewed by companies as one component of a larger recalibration of how the CFPB collects information and allocates its supervisory and enforcement resources, say attorneys at Cooley.

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Monitor Exposure, Stay Flexible Amid Tariff Uncertainty

To navigate an unstable trade environment, businesses must evaluate their exposure to new tariffs invoked under a patchwork of statutory authorities and be prepared to adapt to further changes that may be on the horizon, says Bhargav Prajapati at Capital Trade.

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SEC Rulemaking Radar: The Rubber Meets The Road

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rulemaking agenda shows its regulatory reset taking shape, with sweeping crypto proposals that could bring the biggest changes it has made to broker-dealer, exchange and trading compliance in decades, says Christopher Grobbel at Goodwin.

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DOJ Healthcare Declination Offers Self-Disclosure Checklist

The U.S. Department of Justice's declination of criminal charges against Campus Eye Management signals that its new self-disclosure policy provides a real path for healthcare companies to avoid criminal exposure, but that path is paved with speed, transparency and operational remediation, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

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Uber Gets Greenlight On Most Fraud Claims Against LA Firms

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Wednesday largely rejected two Los Angeles personal injury firms' attempts to ditch Uber's suit claiming it's being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims, finding Uber has plausibly alleged that the firms schemed with a surgeon to rack up medical costs.

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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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