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1. Duty Rate On Chinese Bedroom Furniture Is Correct: US

Friday, Mar 12, 2010

The U.S. government is defending its decision to impose a 216 percent anti-dumping duty on certain wooden bedroom furniture from China, arguing the results are correct and should be maintained despite new data introduced on remand.

2. Arnold & Porter Snags Arent Fox White Collar Team

Thursday, Mar 11, 2010

Arnold & Porter LLP has lured three laterals from Arent Fox LLP, including two former assistant U.S. attorneys, to bulk up its white collar criminal defense practice.

3. CIT Stays Koyo Byrd Amendment Suit For Test Case

Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010

The U.S. Court of International Trade has granted a domestic bearing manufacturer's request to stay its suit accusing the government of violating the First Amendment by disbursing anti-dumping proceeds based on speech, anticipating a ruling in a high-profile test case on the constitutionality of the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000.

4. Crowell & Moring, Ex-Worker Resolve Age Bias Suit

Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010

Following a federal judge's ruling that a 54-year-old former Crowell & Moring LLP employee could not voluntarily dismiss her age discrimination suit against the firm, the parties have agreed to end the suit through a stipulation of dismissal.

5. Crowell & Moring Worker Can't Pull Age Bias Suit: Judge

Monday, Mar 01, 2010

A federal judge has rejected former Crowell & Moring LLP employee Mona R. Saunders' bid to voluntarily dismiss her age discrimination suit, saying the firm has already responded to the complaint.

6. Creditors Appeal Fight With Steve & Barry's Owners

Friday, Feb 26, 2010

The unsecured creditors of BH S&B Holdings LLC, which purchased the Steve & Barry’s clothing store chain out of bankruptcy in August 2008, took their case to district court Friday, after a bankruptcy court rejected their argument that the hedge fund conglomerates that owned BH S&B ran the retailer into the ground.

7. Jones Day Employment Atty Jumps To Arent Fox

Thursday, Feb 25, 2010

Arent Fox LLP has continued to expand its Los Angeles office, adding a partner from Jones Day to its labor and employment practice.

8. Baker Hostetler Snags Arent Fox Bankruptcy Partner

Monday, Feb 22, 2010

Veteran bankruptcy attorney Christopher Giaimo has left Arent Fox LLP to join Baker & Hostetler LLP.

9. Winston Commercial Litigator Jumps To Chadbourne

Thursday, Feb 11, 2010

Chadbourne & Parke LLP has pulled in a commercial litigator from Winston & Strawn LLP who specializes in trying technology, securities and financial services cases.

10. Sanctions, Damages Reversed In Software Patent Suit

Monday, Feb 08, 2010

A federal appeals court has reversed sanctions against attorneys for ResQNet.com Inc. stemming from the alleged bad-faith inclusion of certain patents in its infringement suit over software technology, while remanding the damages calculation against defendant Lansa Inc.

11. Arent Fox Antitrust Partner Makes Move To Chadbourne

Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010

Chadbourne & Parke LLP has snagged Arent Fox LLP antitrust and e-commerce partner David H. Evans for the firm's Washington office.

12. ITC To Weigh In On Impact Of Duty-Free Sleeping Bags

Friday, Jan 29, 2010

The U.S. International Trade Commission is reviewing whether certain types of sleeping bags should be duty-free as part of the U.S. trade representative's inquiry into the effects of the policy on a domestic sleeping bag maker.

13. Judge Pauses DOC Liquidation Of Chinese Bearings

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010

A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Commerce from liquidating tapered roller bearings from China with duties of more than 24 percent until a Chinese company's challenge to the duties — as well as any appeals — has been resolved in court.

14. USTR To Rethink Duty-Free Status Of Sleeping Bags

Thursday, Jan 21, 2010

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to look into the economic impact of removing sleeping bags from the list of articles eligible for duty-free treatment under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences.

15. Lincoln Abusing ITC Resources In Wire Spat: Sidergas

Friday, Jan 15, 2010

Sidergas SpA has rebuffed discovery requests by Lincoln Electric Co. in a patent dispute over imported bulk welding wire containers, saying Lincoln has posed more questions than allowed and is abusing the resources of the U.S. International Trade Commission.

16. US Catfish Farmers Drop Bid For Rehearing On Duties

Friday, Jan 15, 2010

A group of U.S. catfish farmers has dropped its request for the U.S. Court of International Trade to reconsider an order affirming the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision not to charge anti-dumping duties on two Vietnamese frozen fish fillet exporters.

17. International Trade Cases Of The Decade

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010

Rulings by the World Trade Organization that had a significant impact on U.S. trade law and cases that reshaped the way the U.S. deals with trade from China topped lawyers' list of the most notable trade cases of the past decade.

18. Koyo Latest To Call Byrd Amendment Unconstitutional

Friday, Jan 08, 2010

In the latest suit challenging the constitutionality of the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000, bearing manufacturer Koyo Corp. of USA has accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection of violating free speech by denying anti-dumping duty proceeds to companies that oppose duty investigations.

19. Commerce Affirms Anti-Dumping Rate On Furniture

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009

In another blow to importers, the U.S. Department of Commerce has affirmed a 216 percent anti-dumping duty rate on wooden bedroom furniture from China but also decided that combination rates are not called for in the matter.

20. Law360 Ranks Largest IP Practices

Friday, Dec 04, 2009

Finnegan Henderson LLP, Fish & Richardson and Morrison & Foerster LLP topped the Law360 IP 100 this year, boasting the largest intellectual property practices in the United States, as measured by the number of practicing lawyers.