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February 21, 2024
White House Acts To Shore Up Cybersecurity At US Ports
The Biden administration on Wednesday moved to boost cybersecurity at U.S. ports, announcing a series of actions that include new proposed rules to establish minimum data security safeguards and an executive order requiring transportation vessels and facilities to report cyber incidents.
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February 20, 2024
Liberal Justices Hint Chevron Deference Hanging By A Thread
In the U.S. Supreme Court's latest battle royal over administrative powers, left-leaning justices at oral arguments Tuesday openly suggested that the landmark legal doctrine underpinning modern rulemaking might soon shrivel up, clearing the way for industry-led challenges to regulations on the books for decades.
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February 20, 2024
US Small Businesses Have Most To Lose From Digital Duties
The possible demise of an international moratorium on tariffs for digital products, including software and media downloads, could cut into small businesses' profits and create compliance burdens for the companies that survive.
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February 20, 2024
Wells Fargo Says SEC Has Closed Hiring Practices Probe
Wells Fargo said Tuesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed an investigation into the bank's hiring practices, following allegations that some bank managers conducted sham interviews to meet a diversity quota, while Barclays PLC has said it no longer faces an investigation into its anti-money laundering compliance.
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February 20, 2024
5th Circ. Seeks Texas Justices' Input On LNG Permit Fight
The Fifth Circuit has yanked its prior ruling that scrapped an emissions permit issued by Texas environmental regulators for a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal, saying it wants the state's Supreme Court to weigh in on how to define the best available pollution control technology under Texas law.
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February 20, 2024
WTO Says Revised Duties On Spanish Olives Still Out Of Line
The World Trade Organization called on the U.S. to fix revised countervailing duties on Spanish olives, ruling Tuesday that the duties are still not in compliance with its 2021 decision rejecting the investigation that resulted in the tariffs.
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February 20, 2024
Ericsson, Lenovo IP Row Halted Amid Federal Probe
A lawsuit alleging that Lenovo is infringing Ericsson's video technology was halted by a North Carolina federal court, which reasoned that a federal probe that will look into the same issues as the suit should be completed before the litigation can proceed.
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February 20, 2024
Akin Hires Top BIS Commerce Department Counsel In DC
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has hired the former U.S. Department of Commerce's chief counsel for the Bureau of Industry and Security, who has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
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February 20, 2024
International Trade Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP scored important wins across the international trade space last year, including shepherding bet-the-company deals through national security review, challenging fertilizer tariffs and guiding Seagate Technology LLC through a record-breaking export control settlement, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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February 20, 2024
Navalny's Death Pushes Biden To Ramp Up Russian Sanctions
The White House said Tuesday that it will introduce new sanctions on Russia later this week in response to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in custody, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin was ultimately responsible.
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February 20, 2024
Ransomware Group LockBit Hit By Coordinated Crackdown
Two suspects linked to LockBit have been arrested and dozens of servers taken down as part of a global operation to disrupt the Russia-based ransomware group's activities, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday.
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February 16, 2024
Trade Dispute Reform Draft Emphasizes Mediation
A draft agreement for overhauling the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement process circulated Friday proposes a new emphasis on the institution's alternatives to the formal litigation process that the U.S. has criticized as exclusionary and inefficient.
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February 16, 2024
You Want Judge Reyna To Have Coffee With Your Brief
U.S. Circuit Judge Jimmie V. Reyna on Friday told intellectual property attorneys that the best way to establish credibility at the Federal Circuit is through a well-written brief, saying otherwise they put him in a bad position and deprive him of coffee.
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February 16, 2024
Canada Liable Under NAFTA For Axed LNG Project, Co. Says
A U.S. company that invested at least $120 million in a since-thwarted liquefied natural gas project maintained that Canada is liable for $1 billion in damages for breaches of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and that the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes has jurisdiction over its claims.
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February 16, 2024
EU Launches First In-Depth Foreign Subsidy Probe
The European Commission is launching an investigation into whether state assistance gave a Chinese train manufacturer a leg up in its bid for a Bulgarian government contract, the authority's first investigation under the European Union's new foreign subsidies regulation.
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February 16, 2024
Ex-FBI Field Boss Gets 28 Months For Foreign Payouts
A former FBI field office supervisor was sentenced Friday to 28 months in prison for failing to disclose a $225,000 payment that he received from a former Albanian intelligence official while overseeing counterintelligence matters at the bureau.
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February 16, 2024
New IP Cases At ITC Plunged In 2023
A new report about intellectual property shows that there was a "significant downturn" in cases at the U.S. International Trade Commission in 2023, according to an agency that represents expert witnesses for litigation.
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February 16, 2024
Quartz Biz Says Customs Charged Tariffs On Duty-Free Goods
A quartz importer took U.S. Customs and Border Protection to court over its assessment of anti-dumping duties on dozens of quartz surface products that the U.S. Department of Commerce said should be imported duty-free.
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February 15, 2024
To Catch Crypto Crime, Look Offshore, Lawmakers Told
Former regulators and prosecutors now employed by crypto-focused firms told U.S. House lawmakers Thursday that law enforcement needs additional power to go after offshore exchanges and other points where U.S. dollars enter and exit the digital asset economy in order to fight illicit finance in crypto.
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February 15, 2024
Biz Groups Urge Feds To Back WTO's Block On Digital Duties
Major U.S. trade and business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Foreign Trade Council, urged U.S. officials to back the World Trade Organization's suspension of tariffs on electronic transmissions ahead of a renewal vote later this month.
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February 15, 2024
State Dept. Offers $5M For Info On 'BlackCat' Ransomware Group
The State Department is offering millions for information on the "BlackCat" ransomware, claiming that the AlphV cybercrime group has compromised over 1,000 entities globally.
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February 15, 2024
Biggest Tiremakers Sued Over Alleged Price-Fixing
An Illinois tire buyer is piggy-backing off last month's European Commission raids of tire manufacturers in a new class action, alleging that the biggest players in the industry have been colluding to artificially inflate new replacement tire prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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February 15, 2024
GSA Probed For Buying Banned Chinese Conferencing Cams
The House Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation is probing the General Services Administration's purchase of videoconference cameras made in China following a recent report by the GSA's internal watchdog the subcommittee said raised alarming questions.
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February 15, 2024
Fla. Couple Get 57 Mos. For Evading $42M In Plywood Duties
A Florida couple were sentenced to nearly five years in prison each after confessing to disguising the Chinese origin of millions of dollars' worth of plywood imports to avoid paying $42 million in import tariffs.
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February 14, 2024
Biden's OECD Pick Vows To Warren He'll Avoid Crypto Policy
A former New York congressman who's been nominated to serve as the U.S. ambassador to a global economic development body has said he'll forgo working on crypto-oriented policy if he's confirmed to the job after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D.-Mass, expressed concern over his work with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
Expert Analysis
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Perspectives
A Judge's Pitch To Revive The Jury Trial
Ohio state Judge Pierre Bergeron explains how the decline of the jury trial threatens public confidence in the judiciary and even democracy as a whole, and he offers ideas to restore this sacred right.
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What Patent Bills Would Mean For Infringement Litigation
Attorneys at Farella Braun summarize a pair of recently introduced patent bills — one that would reform patent eligibility and another that would change procedures for litigating patent invalidity — and explore the potential impact of each.
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How To Recognize And Recover From Lawyer Loneliness
Law can be one of the loneliest professions, but there are practical steps that attorneys and their managers can take to help themselves and their peers improve their emotional health, strengthen their social bonds and protect their performance, says psychologist and attorney Traci Cipriano.
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Opinion
Litigation Funding Disclosure Should Be Mandatory
Despite the Appellate Rules Committee's recent deferral of the issue of requiring third-party litigation funding disclosure, such a mandate is necessary to ensure the even-handed administration of justice across all cases, says David Levitt at Hinshaw.
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Recalling USWNT's Legal PR Playbook Amid World Cup Bid
As the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team strives to take home another World Cup trophy, their 2022 pay equity settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation serves as a good reminder that winning in the court of public opinion can be more powerful than a victory inside the courtroom, says Hector Valle at Vianovo.
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A Look At US Injunctive Relief Trends Amid UPC Chatter
While much remains to be seen regarding how the new EU Unified Patent Court will treat injunctive relief in practice, recent data shows that the U.S. framework may be turning in favor of injunction, despite a perception that it can be nearly impossible to obtain in the U.S., say Nirav Desai, Patrick Murray and Roberta Lam at Sterne Kessler.
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Potential Outcomes After E Visa Processing Update
A recent update to the Foreign Affairs Manual’s E visa provisions may help ease consular backlogs, but a policy change that will require some applicants and their family members to process renewals overseas at different times creates new administrative burdens for practitioners, say Anna Morzy and Elizabeth Przybysz at Greenberg Traurig.
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China TM Risk Shifting For Original Equipment Manufacturers
Amy Hsiao at Eligon IP explores China's trademark system's concerning rise in bad faith squatters, focusing on the risks faced by the original equipment manufacturing industry and the potential disruptions to the global supply chain.
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What's Causing EU-US Impasse On Steel And Aluminum
The EU and the U.S. have made limited progress in negotiating for a Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum, and they face high obstacles to meeting the fast-approaching October deadline, say attorneys at Akin.
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Perspectives
Mallory Gives Plaintiffs A Better Shot At Justice
Critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern claim it opens the door to litigation tourism, but the ruling simply gives plaintiffs more options — enabling them to seek justice against major corporations in the best possible court, say Rayna Kessler and Ethan Seidenberg at Robins Kaplan.
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CFIUS Clampdown Will Deter Allied-Country Investment
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ recent redefinition of transaction "completion date" is the latest in a series of steps taken in the name of U.S. security that are likely to deter investments from friendly countries and increase capital costs for U.S. startups, says Stephen Heifetz at Wilson Sonsini.
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Navigating Europe's New Game-Changing Unified Patent Court
Europe's recently opened Unified Patent Court has ushered in a new era in patent law focused on the power of provisional relief, and adapting to both broad protections and compressed timelines is essential for plaintiffs and defendants alike, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Opinion
When Corporate Self-Disclosure Threatens Individuals' Rights
The prosecution of former Cognizant executives in New Jersey federal court demonstrates how the U.S. Department of Justice’s corporate enforcement policy can contravene the constitutional rights of individual defendants who are employed by cooperating companies, says Gideon Mark at the University of Maryland.
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Courts Can Overturn Deficient State Regulations, Too
While suits challenging federal regulations have become commonplace, such cases against state agencies are virtually nonexistent, but many states have provisions that allow litigants to bring suit for regulations with inadequate cost-benefit analyses, says Reeve Bull at the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management.
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Tales From The Trenches Of Remote Depositions
As practitioners continue to conduct depositions remotely in the post-pandemic world, these virtual environments are rife with opportunities for improper behavior such as witness coaching, scripted testimony and a general lack of civility — but there are methods to prevent and combat these behaviors, say Jennifer Gibbs and Bennett Moss at Zelle.