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July 29, 2026
A California federal judge said an ex-Tencent worker must arbitrate her claims that the company fired her after she complained that a male colleague sexually harassed her, ruling that the behavior she protested wasn't sufficiently severe or sexual in nature to trigger a law that could have kept her case in court.
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July 28, 2026
An international tribunal has awarded U.S.-based construction aggregates company Vulcan Materials "negligible" damages in its arbitration accusing Mexico of improperly clamping down on its limestone quarrying activities in Quintana Roo, the company said Monday.
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July 28, 2026
A New York Life Insurance Co. unit defeated a lawsuit alleging it breached Pennsylvania law when it denied disability benefits to 17 Kosovo citizens who supported the U.S. military in Afghanistan, with a federal judge ruling the claims are preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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July 28, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to send fiduciary duty claims against LG, its U.S. subsidiary and several executives to arbitration, ruling that an investor's derivative lawsuit over the governance of advertising technology company Alphonso must remain in the Delaware court.
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July 28, 2026
The Brazilian government filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against U.S. tariffs placed on Brazilian goods, arguing that the measures run afoul of global trade rules, it said Monday evening.
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July 28, 2026
A London judge expressed "surprise" on Tuesday that Nokia had delayed its patent licensing dispute with Asus and Acer by challenging their proposed use of confidential documents in upcoming arbitration between the companies.
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July 27, 2026
The D.C. Circuit has substantially vacated its ruling ending long-running litigation brought by the descendants of a Hungarian Jewish art collector seeking the return of a priceless art collection looted by the Nazis, citing the passage of a new law.
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July 27, 2026
The Professional Tennis Players Association pushed back Friday on assertions by professional tennis' governing bodies that an internal PTPA power struggle shows that it has no members and thus no standing to sue them in New York federal court for allegedly blocking competing tournaments.
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July 27, 2026
An Egyptian travel company has asked a Washington federal judge to enforce a $786 million arbitral award it won against Iraqi Airways and the Republic of Iraq itself, after a Cairo tribunal found the airline breached a 2001 exclusive agency contract when it terminated the deal following the U.S. invasion.
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July 24, 2026
A New York federal judge concluded Thursday that an arbitral tribunal did not disregard the law by allowing claims asserted by a Mexican cement company to proceed despite a statute of limitations issue, in a long-running dispute stemming from the 2011 sale of a Bolivian cement company.
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July 24, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Friday enforced $441 million in arbitral awards issued to European investors whose property in Zimbabwe was seized under a controversial program aimed at returning land to the Indigenous population, pointing to the court's limited mandate for reviewing such awards.
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July 24, 2026
Cotton futures traders want a New York federal judge to keep their certified class action moving toward trial, arguing that Louis Dreyfus Commodities BV has no basis to force some class members into arbitration or to disqualify the named plaintiff and undo certification.
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July 24, 2026
The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday announced that it would hear the appeal by Senegal's national soccer federation of the decision to take away its Africa Cup of Nations championship game victory and award it to Morocco.
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July 23, 2026
Bankruptcy claims agent Kroll Restructuring Administration LLC should be able to arbitrate claims over a 2023 data breach affecting FTX Trading customers, but claims from a BlockFi user should be tossed, according to recommendations from a Texas magistrate judge.
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July 23, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has enforced a $1 billion arbitral award that found South Sudan defaulted on a $700 million loan agreement from its civil war era, saying the Bank of South Sudan's "vague" allegations of corruption underlying the deal fell short.
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July 23, 2026
A New York federal judge ruled Thursday that a former Debevoise & Plimpton associate must arbitrate his disability discrimination and retaliation claims against the firm, finding that a broad arbitration provision in a confidential settlement agreement covering his earlier termination delegates questions about the scope of arbitration to the arbitrator.
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July 23, 2026
The U.S. trade deal with the European Union may be undermined by European Commission actions against Google owner Alphabet, including penalties totaling over $1 billion and claims that the U.S. technology giant unfairly favored its own services in certain applications, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday.
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July 22, 2026
A group of international arbitration scholars are pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal law determines whether a nonsignatory to an international arbitration agreement can force arbitration of a dispute, saying a Fifth Circuit decision erroneously applied state law and contributes to unpredictability.
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July 22, 2026
Russia is urging a D.C. federal court to pause litigation filed by one of Ukraine's largest banks to enforce a $1.1 billion arbitral award, pointing to a French court decision questioning the impartiality of one of the arbitrators who co-authored an amicus brief critical of the Kremlin.
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July 22, 2026
A New York federal judge has refused to grant a motion to suppress four laptops and two recordings involving Huawei employees that the government obtained during its lengthy investigation of the Chinese telecommunications company.
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July 22, 2026
The U.K.'s top court on Wednesday upheld a $1.85 million arbitral award over the aborted $15 million sale of a vessel, ruling that buyers can recover "loss of bargain" damages where sellers negligently fail to deliver on time under a standard ship sale contract.
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July 21, 2026
A New York federal judge refused to remove a "side-switching" arbitrator from a dispute over coverage for millions of dollars' worth of asbestos bodily injury claims, ruling that Truck Insurance Exchange's lawsuit is barred under a "hold harmless" pact it inked with the counterparty, a group of foreign reinsurers.
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July 21, 2026
The full slate of Federal Circuit judges will not reconsider a panel's determination that Apple has infringed Masimo Corp.'s blood oxygen monitor patents in a high-profile case that led to some Apple Watch imports being banned.
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July 21, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the enforcement of a $391 million arbitral award issued against Argentina in a 17-year-old dispute over the renationalization of its state-owned airline, rejecting arguments that the petition was filed too late.
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July 20, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday urged the D.C. Circuit to closely evaluate a Russian court's determination that an underlying arbitration agreement is invalid as it weighs whether to enforce a nearly $5 billion arbitral award against the Kremlin, saying circumstances surrounding the ruling should be a factor.