UK To Raise Pharma Spending For US Tariff Protection

By Dylan Moroses

The United States and United Kingdom announced a deal Monday that includes a commitment to exclude U.K. pharmaceutical imports from any future U.S. tariff actions while the U.K. will pay higher costs for certain drugs.

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Trump Tariff Refund Rights Should Be Preserved, Costco Says

By Dylan Moroses

The federal government should have to refund President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs paid by Costco Wholesale Corp., the company told the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Venezuela Will Challenge $5.9B Sale Of Citgo Parent

By Alex Wittenberg

Venezuela, the country's state-owned oil company and others have appealed a Delaware federal judge's order approving the $5.89 billion sale of Citgo Petroleum's parent company to an affiliate of hedge fund Elliott Investment Management LP, potentially delaying the long-awaited sale of Venezuela's most significant seizable asset.

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Brief

ITC Clears Way For AD/CV Duties On CORE Steel Imports

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. International Trade Commission finalized a determination that domestic producers were harmed by subsidized corrosion-resistant steel products imported from several countries and sold at less than fair value, according to a notice published Monday.

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Harman Settles Claims It Skipped Duties On Chinese Products

By Carolyn Muyskens

Audio electronics company Harman International Industries Inc. has agreed to pay $11.8 million to settle allegations that it evaded U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties on imported electronic components from China.

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PTAB Cuts Some Claims In GoPro Camera Patent

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated a pair of claims in a GoPro camera aspect ratio patent challenged by a China-based camera company but refused to throw out the first claim of the patent.

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Rare Tariff Authority May Boost US Battery Manufacturing

Finalizing preliminary tariffs on active anode material from China — the result of a rare exercise of statutory authority finding that foreign dumping hampered the development of a nascent U.S. industry — should help domestic battery manufacturing, but potential price increases could discourage related clean-energy use, say attorneys at MoloLamken.

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Takeaways From First Resolution After FCPA Pause Was Lifted

The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent deferred prosecution agreement with TIGO Guatemala — its first Foreign Corrupt Practice Act corporate resolution after issuing new guidelines and resuming enforcement — highlights several aspects of the administration’s approach to corporate foreign bribery enforcement, say attorneys at Cleary.

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Why Justices Must Act To End Freight Broker Liability Split

The Sixth Circuit's recent ruling in Cox v. Total Quality Logistics Inc., affirming states' authority over negligence claims against transportation brokers, deepens an existing circuit split, creating an untenable situation where laws between neighboring states conflict in seven distinct instances — and making U.S. Supreme Court intervention essential, says Steven Saal at Lucosky Brookman.

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Series

The Law Firm Merger Diaries: How To Build On Cultural Fit

Law firm mergers should start with people, then move to strategy: A two-level screening that puts finding a cultural fit at the pinnacle of the process can unearth shared values that are instrumental to deciding to move forward with a combination, says Matthew Madsen at Harrison.

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Ex-Immigration Judge Accuses DOJ Of Political Retaliation

By Dorothy Atkins

A former Ohio immigration judge sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging she was discriminated against and unconstitutionally fired for her liberal political beliefs while slamming the Trump administration's recent "unprecedented assault" against longstanding civil service laws that protect millions of federal employees.

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Feature

Meet The Attys Arguing Gov't Subpoena Power At High Court

By Mark Payne

Law360 introduces the lawyers appearing at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in a case focused on an anti-abortion crisis center and a state attorney general's attempt to subpoena details on its donors.

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3rd Circ. Says Habba Barred From Serving As Acting US Atty

By Carla Baranauckas

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer cannot serve as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, the Third Circuit ruled Monday in a precedential opinion holding that her appointment violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act and undermined the constitutional safeguards of Senate confirmation.

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Calif. Ban On Fee-Sharing With 'Alternative' Firms Challenged

By Jack Karp

A new law barring California lawyers and firms from sharing fees with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers is unconstitutional and will harm the state's mass tort lawyers and their clients, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

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Analysis

What MDL Judges Can Get Done With A New Civil Rule

By Cara Salvatore

As the first federal procedure rule geared toward multidistrict litigation goes into effect, judges will have a new buffet of best practices to guide them, but little in the way of hand-tying mandates.

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White House Crypto Czar Hired Clare Locke Amid NYT Probe

By Aislinn Keely

The tech founder-turned-White House crypto and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks has hired defamation specialists at Clare Locke LLP to combat a New York Times investigation into potential conflicts of interest arising from his personal tech investments and role as a White House policy adviser.

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Suit Against Erika Girardi's Atty Tossed As 'Shotgun Pleading'

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal court has dismissed a clothing company's abuse of process suit against an attorney of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Jayne for being a shotgun pleading.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court saw a slate of corporate law clashes this past week, from fast-moving injunction fights in consumer product and real estate markets to multibillion-dollar oversight claims against crypto executives and fresh battles over control for two sports teams.

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