http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Arent Fox Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134666 Sidergas SpA of Italy has fired back in Lincoln Electric Co.'s suit over welding wire equipment patents, rebuking allegations of infringement and saying Lincoln committed fraud in its patent applications. http://www.law360.com/articles/134666 http://www.law360.com/articles/133777 Lincoln Electric Co. is urging the U.S. International Trade Commission to declare as moot various summary judgment motions filed by respondent Sidergas SpA of Italy in a patent case over welding wire equipment. http://www.law360.com/articles/133777 http://www.law360.com/articles/133085 Northrop Grumman Corp. has said it will sell its advisory services business TASC Inc. for $1.65 billion in cash to an investor group led by private equity firms General Atlantic LLC and affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP. http://www.law360.com/articles/133085 http://www.law360.com/articles/132874 Essar Steel Ltd. has asked the U.S. Court of International Trade to order the government to reconsider duties on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products imported from India in 2007. http://www.law360.com/articles/132874 http://www.law360.com/articles/132466 Najarian Furniture Co. Inc. has lost a bid to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from reliquidating imports of Chinese furniture at a new, higher rate, despite a federal judge's determination that the Department of Commerce may have reassessed the rate arbitrarily to correct a previous mathematical error. http://www.law360.com/articles/132466 http://www.law360.com/articles/132036 The American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade has wedged itself into an anti-dumping dispute over wooden bedroom furniture from China, arguing that importer Najarian Furniture Co. Inc. is seeking an improper windfall through an injunction on duties. http://www.law360.com/articles/132036 http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 A District of Columbia appeals court has kept a case against Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless Inc., AT&T Corp. and others alive, reversing in part a lower court's decision to dismiss consolidated suits claiming older phones emitted dangerous amounts of radiation. http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 http://www.law360.com/articles/131501 Plaintiffs in a long-running dispute over pension plans for employees of agricultural giant Monsanto Corp. and two spinoff health care companies have appealed a district court decision tossing their class action claims that the pension plans improperly calculated their benefits in violation of federal law. http://www.law360.com/articles/131501 http://www.law360.com/articles/130511 The U.S. Court of International Trade has remanded a suit brought by PSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corp. over a magnesium anti-dumping duty back to the Department of Commerce, finding the DOC should take into account an expert affidavit filed by the Russian metals giant. http://www.law360.com/articles/130511 http://www.law360.com/articles/129606 Arent Fox LLP has reached a settlement with Gietz Master Builders ACC and Superior Home Services Inc. in a breach of contract suit over more than $76,000 in unpaid legal expenses stemming from the firm’s defense efforts in a fraudulent conveyance action initiated in the bankruptcy case of Doctors Community Healthcare Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/129606 http://www.law360.com/articles/117760 America's export control system, created during the Cold War, has long been in need of a major overhaul, according to lawyers, many of whom are optimistic that those changes may finally be made now that the Obama administration has placed reform high on its agenda. http://www.law360.com/articles/117760 http://www.law360.com/articles/127679 An American furniture importer has sued the U.S. Department of Commerce, alleging that it illegally jacked up the company's anti-dumping rate for wooden bedroom furniture from China months after an administrative review was completed. http://www.law360.com/articles/127679 http://www.law360.com/articles/126583 The creditors committee is objecting to a disclosure statement filed by Building Materials Holding Corp., saying it does not have enough time to review the document. But the debtors have countered that the creditors are simply unhappy with the lesser distribution they will receive and are trying to delay the proceedings. http://www.law360.com/articles/126583 http://www.law360.com/articles/124431 Arent Fox LLP has revoked some of the employment offers it made to its incoming associate class, a firm representative confirmed Thursday. http://www.law360.com/articles/124431 http://www.law360.com/articles/123890 The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Sinochem Modern Environmental Protection Chemicals (Xi'an) Co. Ltd. did not violate a consent order it agreed to with Ineos Fluor Holdings Ltd., which had accused Sinochem of infringing a patent related to coolants. http://www.law360.com/articles/123890 http://www.law360.com/articles/123148 The creditors committee in the Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. bankruptcy has expressed concerns about the reasonableness of fees incurred by the debtors' counsel, Hunton & Williams LLP, and the debtors' special litigation counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/123148 http://www.law360.com/articles/122078 A number of law firms earned high marks in a Human Rights Campaign Foundation survey that rated more than 590 businesses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace benefits and policies, with 43 percent of the 200 largest firms in the U.S. receiving a perfect score for their LGBT-friendly practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/122078 http://www.law360.com/articles/117761 More than seven months into the Obama administration, numerous posts in the federal government dealing with international trade have yet to be filled, and while it's not unusual for such posts to take some time to fill, the number of vacancies has slowed the progress of some trade initiatives, according to attorneys. http://www.law360.com/articles/117761 http://www.law360.com/articles/120849 Arguing that the weakened U.S. steel industry is vulnerable to an influx of new imports, three domestic steel producers have urged the U.S. International Trade Commission to retain anti-dumping duties on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from China, Russia and Ukraine. http://www.law360.com/articles/120849 http://www.law360.com/articles/120850 Lifestyle Enterprise Inc., Orient International Holding Shanghai Foreign Trade Co. Ltd. and other importers have sued the U.S. Department of Commerce, arguing that a recent administrative review of anti-dumping duties on wooden bedroom furniture from China came after the legal deadline. http://www.law360.com/articles/120850