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May 20, 2026
Nokia will still be able to import some of its foreign made routers after receiving the Federal Communications Commission's blessing and conditional approval and exemption from the agency's covered list of equipment the agency has deemed a national security risk.
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May 20, 2026
An attorney and onetime Connecticut lawmaker should be temporarily suspended after a criminal conviction for receiving campaign funds during a law firm party and further disciplined for charging an immigration client a $30,000 flat fee, some of which he called his firm's "pocket money," state ethics authorities have said.
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May 20, 2026
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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May 20, 2026
The settlement of President Donald Trump's $10 billion tax leak suit against the Internal Revenue Service — creating a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" — is a "corrupt sham," a pair of police officers present during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot told a D.C. federal court Wednesday.
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May 20, 2026
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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May 20, 2026
The U.K. will extend a tax cut of 5 pence (7 cents) per liter of fuel through the rest of the year to address higher prices linked to the war in Iran, the government said Wednesday.
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May 20, 2026
Georgia Supreme Court Justices Sarah Hawkins Warren and Charlie Bethel persuaded state voters to give them new six-year terms on the state's highest court, withstanding bids to unseat them from former state Sen. Jen Jordan and attorney Miracle Rankin.
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May 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges Wednesday against former Cuban President Raúl Castro over the deaths in 1996 of four Cuban Americans whose planes were shot down by the Cuban government, in a move that attorneys said could signal the beginning of the end for the Cuban regime.
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May 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice's increased reliance on advanced data analytics and data-mining whistleblowers to detect fraud is shrinking the amount of time that companies have to find and report potential wrongdoing to the government in order to receive leniency for voluntary self-disclosure, experts say.
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May 20, 2026
Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra's next act in government is poised to unfold on a new stage in California, but financial firms will likely recognize the script. Watch this space, attorneys tell Law360.
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May 20, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's veto of legislation to tax and regulate the sale of adult-use cannabis will keep the commonwealth in a state of cannabis legal limbo for the foreseeable future.
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May 20, 2026
Hong Kong lawmakers adopted legislation Wednesday to hike the rate of a tax on residential real estate transactions valued above HK$100 million ($12.7 million).
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May 20, 2026
A proposed class of budtenders for dispensaries run by GL Partners Inc. is suing in Missouri federal court, alleging the dispensaries are violating federal labor laws by sharing tips with managerial staff and otherwise mishandling them to use as petty cash or to balance cash registers.
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May 19, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday issued a revised policy on cooperation credit in enforcement matters, outlining how factors such as self-reporting, cooperation and remediation can help respondents secure fine reductions or potential declinations.
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May 19, 2026
The federal government's arguments to stay a permanent injunction against the collection of President Donald Trump's temporary global duties for two small businesses and the state of Washington while it appeals the ruling are overblown, a coalition of states told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
The Ninth Circuit seemed to have its doubts Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission made the wrong call in finding it had no say over a Haitian mobile carrier's decision to deactivate SIM cards that were brought into the United States and used to evade international calling rates.
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May 19, 2026
Monsanto has reached multimillion-dollar deals with Michigan and Rhode Island to end claims that the company contaminated waterways and natural resources with polychlorinated biphenyls, agreeing to pay the states as much as $240 million and $62 million, respectively, with most of that money contingent on how the company recovers from separate lawsuits.
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May 19, 2026
Intel and other semiconductor manufacturers asked a Texas federal judge to throw out claims that they negligently sold products the Russian government used to build missiles that killed Ukrainian civilians, saying Tuesday that the civilians' claims have no basis in Texas law.
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May 19, 2026
A cannabis investment company can't sue a city within metro Detroit for refusing to allow it to open a dispensary, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying a local official's alleged promise to "grandfather" the company in, despite a ban on new retailers, can't supersede a city ordinance.
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May 19, 2026
Wells Fargo asked a Colorado state court judge Friday for an early exit from a lawsuit brought by a group of Denver Public Schools parents who allege the academic system has illegally been mortgaging numerous school district-owned properties to the bank for decades, according to the bank's motion to dismiss.
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May 19, 2026
Federal prosecutors urged the Ninth Circuit Tuesday to revive lawsuits against California and Oregon claiming states are required to hand over voter registration lists that include driver's license and Social Security numbers, saying the data would be used to look for noncitizens and others not eligible to vote.
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May 19, 2026
A Washington federal judge rejected Skechers USA Inc.'s effort to throw out a proposed class action accusing the footwear giant of blasting state residents with unsolicited and misleading spam emails, ruling Tuesday that Washington's antispam law is consistent with federal law.
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May 19, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Monday revived a South Carolina widow's lawsuit alleging that freight broker Echo Global Logistics negligently selected the trucking company involved in the 2022 accident that killed her husband, days after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling established that freight brokers can face state-based tort claims.
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May 19, 2026
A New York man who raised funds for President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign avoided a prison sentence Tuesday after being found guilty at trial of charges stemming from a straw donor scheme partly intended to help Chinese nationals gain access to Trump.
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May 19, 2026
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is demanding Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould share documents and communications related to the approval of national trust charters for cryptocurrency firms, which Warren argues are "seemingly ineligible" since the firms' business plans appear to wade into traditional banking activities.