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August 20, 2025
Masimo Targets CBP Over Latest Apple Watch Import Ruling
Masimo sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection in D.C. federal court Wednesday, arguing the agency defied the law by issuing a ruling that found a newly redesigned version of Apple's smartwatches is not subject to an import ban in the companies' patent dispute.
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August 20, 2025
Fed. Circ. Upholds Chinese Wire Duties Amid Commerce Flub
The Federal Circuit has upheld a U.S. Court of International Trade decision affirming antidumping duties on an American company importing aluminum wire and cable from China, finding the government was able to reject an effort to reduce the duty rate despite a purported procedural error.
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August 20, 2025
Nutter Welcomes Tax Atty In NY From Fox Horan
Less than a month after announcing it had grown its ranks by 8% with the addition of 13 attorneys in three states, Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP said earlier this week that it has hired a New York-based tax attorney from Fox Horan & Camerini LLP.
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August 20, 2025
Commerce Floats 200% Duty On Chinese Plastic Bins, Totes
The U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily determined that imported polypropylene corrugated boxes from China could be subject to countervailing duties of up to nearly 200%, according to a notice published Wednesday.
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August 20, 2025
DLA Piper Adds Another Investment Funds Atty From Kirkland
DLA Piper announced another addition to its investment funds practice from Kirkland & Ellis LLP on Tuesday, this time a New York-based partner with a range of multibillion-dollar matters under his belt.
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August 19, 2025
Texas Co., Exec To Pay $12.4M In Customs Evasion FCA Suit
A Dallas-based countertop and cabinetry product supplier and its president agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $12.4 million to settle a False Claims Act suit alleging they conspired to evade import duties on quartz products from China, with more than $2.1 million designated for a whistleblower.
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August 19, 2025
Calif. Man Gets 8 Years For Shipping Firearms To North Korea
A Chinese national has been sentenced in Los Angeles federal court to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea in exchange for $2 million, prosecutors said Monday.
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August 19, 2025
Fed. Circ. Won't Revisit Steel Duties On German Companies
The Federal Circuit denied Tuesday a request for it to reconsider a precedential opinion upholding steel duties on German companies imposed after the U.S. Department of Commerce applied adverse facts available in an antidumping investigation.
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August 19, 2025
Trump Tariff Suit Belongs In Trade Court, Gov't Tells DC Circ.
Suits challenging President Donald Trump's imposition of emergency tariffs belong in the U.S. Court of International Trade and a D.C. federal judge improperly considered a case lodged by Illinois-based toy makers in his court, the government told the D.C. Circuit.
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August 19, 2025
Trump Signs Bill To Boost Export Control Transparency
President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that aims to provide more transparency in the U.S. Department of Commerce's export control system, which restricts foreign adversaries from obtaining critical U.S. technologies and software.
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August 19, 2025
Home Depot To Raise Some Prices Due To Tariffs
Home Depot expects to raise prices for some of its products as tariffs weigh its costs, while Congress' latest tax package will boost its cash flow, executives said Tuesday.
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August 18, 2025
Crypto Game Co. Accuses Jump Trading Of Pump-And-Dump
A crypto video game developer has accused high-frequency trading firm Jump Trading of engaging in a pump-and-dump of its token after striking a deal to provide market making services.
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August 18, 2025
Mexican Bank Sues Treasury Over Opioid Order Death Knell
Mexico-based bank CIBanco has sued the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its criminal enforcement wing for cutting off its access to the U.S. financial system through an order aimed at combating opioid trafficking, arguing it faces an "imminent demise" if it doesn't get the chance to show the regulator's allegations are false.
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August 18, 2025
Judge Won't Pause Pipeline Suit For Top Court Review
A Michigan judge on Monday said the state attorney general's legal fight over an Enbridge Energy LP pipeline in the Great Lakes can continue, even while the U.S. Supreme Court mulls whether the case belongs in state or federal court.
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August 18, 2025
GrafTech Investors' Plant Contamination Suit Gets Tossed
An Ohio federal judge threw out a shareholder lawsuit against GrafTech International Ltd. on Monday, ruling that allegations the company hid environmental contamination problems at a Mexican plant amounted to "fraud by hindsight."
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August 18, 2025
Investors Can't Yet Tie Logan Paul To CryptoZoo Claims
A Texas magistrate judge recommended that a proposed class action over Logan Paul's CryptoZoo project should be dismissed, writing that the group hadn't adequately connected the influencer to their claims that they were ripped off when the project failed.
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August 18, 2025
Treasury Seeks Input On Tech To Combat Crypto Crimes
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday asked the public to share feedback on how novel technologies might be used to detect and thwart illicit crypto activity, fulfilling a directive under a recently signed bill to regulate stable value tokens.
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August 18, 2025
Fox Corp. Sues Mexican Broadcaster Over Use Of 'Fox Sports'
Fox Sports has filed a lawsuit in New York federal court accusing a Mexican media company of misusing its sports-related intellectual property rights and trying to interfere with its other business relationships in Mexico after Fox nixed their trademark agreement.
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August 18, 2025
Morgan Lewis ITC Lawyer Joins Weil In DC As Group Leader
An intellectual property litigator with almost 30 years of experience has left Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to lead the U.S. International Trade Commission practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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August 15, 2025
Argentina Can Stay YPF Stake Turnover, 2nd Circ. Says
The Second Circuit on Friday paused a New York federal judge's order requiring Argentina to give up its 51% equity stake in the nationalized oil company YPF SA to partially pay off a $16.1 billion judgment in investor litigation, while the country appeals.
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August 15, 2025
TikTok Judge Leans Against Discovery Sanctions In IP Case
A California federal judge overseeing a Chinese company's case accusing TikTok of stealing video-editing tool trade secrets and infringing the tool's copyrights said Friday she wasn't inclined to grant TikTok's request for sanctions ending the litigation over alleged discovery misconduct, adding she hasn't been "keen" at times on TikTok's behavior.
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August 15, 2025
Mich. Bank Keeps Arbitration Win Against Scammed Law Firm
A marijuana industry-focused law firm must pay its bank nearly $373,000, a deficit sustained after a Nigerian scammer tricked the firm into cashing fraudulent Canadian checks, a Michigan appeals court ruled, rejecting arguments that the bank had a duty to protect the firm "from its own mistakes."
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August 15, 2025
Defense Attys Predict Rise In Shareholder Suits, Report Says
Nearly three-quarters of defense attorneys surveyed by high-risk insurance firm Inigo believe there will be an increase in private securities litigation over the next year, especially in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a report released by Inigo.
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August 15, 2025
Construction Co. Says Webuild Can't Duck $147M Award
A Chilean construction company is fighting back against efforts by Webuild SpA to duck its lawsuit seeking to enforce a more than $146 million arbitral award, arguing that the Italian construction giant cannot claim the Connecticut federal court is the wrong venue for the case.
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August 15, 2025
Trump's Divisive 'China Initiative' May Get A Vigorous Reboot
The Trump administration's ongoing battles with major universities may soon include the revival of an initiative that, with mixed success, targeted professors with ties to China during the president's first term, and experts told Law360 the second incarnation may be even more aggressive.
Expert Analysis
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The Ins And Outs Of Consensual Judicial References
As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Dutch Ruling Adds To EU Consensus On Investment Arb.
The Gerechtshof Amsterdam's recent decision in LC Corp. v. Poland marks a decisive development in the turbulent landscape surrounding intra-European Union bilateral investment treaties, exemplifying the growing judicial resistance to the enforcement and continuation of intra-EU arbitration proceedings, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square.
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Staying The Course Amid Seismic DOJ White Collar Changes
While some of the big changes at the U.S. Department of Justice during the second Trump administration — like an embrace of cryptocurrency and more politicized prosecutions — were expected, there have also been surprises, so practitioners should advise clients to stay focused on white collar compliance in this unpredictable environment, say attorneys at Keker.
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Opinion
The BigLaw Settlements Are About Risk, Not Profit
The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.
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House Bill Tax Tweaks Would Hinder Renewable Projects
Provisions in the budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would rapidly phase out clean energy tax credits, constrain renewable energy financing arrangements and impose sweeping restrictions on projects with foreign ties, which may create compliance and supply chain issues for many developers, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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State Tort Claims May Help Deter Bribes During FCPA Pause
As the U.S. pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, companies that lose business due to competitors' bribery should consider using state tortious interference suits to expose corruption, deter illegal practices and obtain compensation for commercial losses, says Jason Manning at Levy Firestone.
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Series
Brazilian Jiujitsu Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr of Barnes & Thornburg.
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Key Steps For Traversing Federal Grant Terminations
For grantees, the Trump administration’s unexpected termination or alteration of billions of dollars in federal grants across multiple agencies necessitates a thorough understanding of the legal rights and obligations involved, either in challenging such terminations or engaging in grant termination settlements and closeout procedures, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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DOJ Export Declination Highlights Self-Reporting Benefits
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to prosecute a NASA contractor, despite a former employee pleading guilty to facilitating unlicensed exports, underscores the advantages available to companies that self-report sanctions violations, cooperate with investigations and implement timely remediation, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Review Risk Is Increasing For Foreign Real Estate Developers
Federal and state government efforts have been expanding oversight of foreign investment in U.S. real estate, necessitating careful assessment of risk and of the benefits of notifying the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, say attorneys at Troutman.
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Customs Fraud Enforcement In The Age Of Tariffs
In the wake of the Trump administration’s new approach toward tariffs, two recent Justice Department developments demonstrate aggressive customs fraud enforcement, with the DOJ emphasizing competitive harm to American businesses, and signaling that investigations will likely involve both civil and criminal enforcement tools, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz and London & Naor.
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What's At Stake As Trump Admin Targets Carbon Markets
Trading in greenhouse gas emissions and reductions has long been touted as a way to leverage market forces to tackle climate change cost-effectively, and that theory may be put to the test amid momentous progress and fresh challenges, particularly as the Trump administration takes aim at climate initiatives, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Series
Power To The Paralegals: An Untapped Source For Biz Roles
Law firms looking to recruit legal business talent should consider turning to paralegals, who practice several key skills every day that prepare them to thrive in marketing and client development roles, says Vanessa Torres at Lowenstein Sandler.
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The Legal Risks Of US Restrictions On Investments In China
The second Trump administration has continued to embrace a more restrictive economic policy toward China, including an ongoing review of further restrictions on the flow of U.S. capital to China, so early planning and enhanced diligence can reduce exposure to the challenges resulting from further restrictions, say attorneys at Cleary.
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How Trucking Cos. Can Keep Rolling Under Tariff Burdens
Recent Trump administration tariffs present major challenges for the transportation and logistics sector — and, in particular, trucking — but providers who focus on operational efficiency, cost control, customer relationships, creative contract structures and unique offerings will stand out from the competition, say attorneys at Benesch.