Top International Trade Developments Of 2026: Midyear Report

By Jack McLoone

The fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court striking down President Donald Trump's global tariff regime kept international trade attorneys busy in the first half of 2026, with the shifting landscape largely occupied by other tariffs and their respective court challenges. Here, Law360 examines the top developments in international trade so far this year.

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Transportation Regulation To Watch: Midyear Report 2026

By Linda Chiem

Revised vehicle fuel economy standards, negotiations on a new infrastructure and transportation funding package and the next iteration of a North American trade deal are some of the transportation industry's top regulatory developments to watch in the latter half of 2026.

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Customs Adds 1.6M Phase 2 Imports To Tariff Refund System

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. Customs and Border Protection received tariff refund requests covering another 1.6 million entries in a day's time after opening a second phase of eligibility for its system, according to a declaration filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

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Analysis

The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.

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Brief

US Hits Algerian Steel Rebar With Countervailing Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce ordered a 72.94% countervailing duty against imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar into the country from Algeria on Thursday, following triple-digit antidumping duties issued earlier this year.

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Commerce Probes Thai Steel For Evasion Of China Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday that it was looking into whether corrosion-resistant steel products completed in Thailand using products from China are circumventing duty orders against the Chinese products.

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BNP Paribas Exits Fed's 2017 Forex Trading Consent Order

By Jon Hill

The Federal Reserve has freed BNP Paribas from a 2017 consent order tied to its foreign exchange trading operations, ending an enforcement action that came with a more than $246 million fine and was one of several to target big banks over past price-fixing concerns.

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Nadine Menendez Irks Judge With 11th-Hour Prison Delay Bid

By Rae Ann Varona

Nadine Menendez urged a New York federal judge Thursday to delay her prison surrender date four months to accommodate breast cancer-related surgeries, to which the judge ordered Menendez explain why her request came "90 minutes" before the Fourth of July long weekend and just days before her surrender date.

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EU Adviser Backs Oligarch Sanctions Tied To Alfa Bank Role

By Eddie Beaver

German Khan can't lift European Union sanctions against him, because the oligarch manages the assets of Alfa Bank which is one of the most important companies in Russia's banking sector, an advocate general of Europe's top court has said.

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HP, Dell, Asus Prove License To Beat Infringement Claims

By Dani Kass

HP Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. and ASUSTeK Computer Inc. have implied licenses to LiTL LLC's portable computer patents, a judge in Delaware federal court concluded, freeing them from infringement allegations.

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YPF Investors Fight Argentina Over Discovery In $16B Case

By Caroline Simson

As investors in Argentine oil and gas exploration company YPF SA gear up for a multibillion-dollar arbitration against Argentina, disputes still remain over exactly what discovery from a parallel proceeding in New York can be used in the arbitration.

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Trade Court Orders Brass Rod Dumping Calculation Redo

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce must redo a final determination in an antidumping duty investigation into brass rods from India after the U.S. Court of International Trade found the government unreasonably disregarded protestations to adjustments it made to cost calculations.

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USPTO Snubs Avalanche's Deficiency Payments For Chip IP

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has declined to accept fee deficiency payments from Avalanche Technology Inc. on four patents covering memory chips after a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission turned down a rival's request to toss an infringement case based on uncertainty over whether the office would accept the fees.

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Trump EOs Pair Quantum Push With Cyber Defense Overhaul

Two recent executive orders that mark a significant federal commitment to both advancing and defending against quantum technology create potential opportunities for companies in the quantum, AI and technology sectors and pose future compliance obligations contractors should begin considering now, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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Series

Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

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Blank Rome Sued Over Breach Allegedly Affecting 57K People

By Steven Lerner

An attorney with Blank Rome LLP was tricked into uploading sensitive files to an external Google Drive account, allegedly exposing private information belonging to more than 57,000 individuals, according to a proposed class action accusing the law firm of inadequate cybersecurity safeguards and delayed breach notification.

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Richards Layton Faces Possible Sanctions Over AI Errors

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.

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Partnership Docs Sealed In Clifford Chance Clawback Spat

By Ryan Boysen

A federal judge has sealed the partnership agreements that two ex-Clifford Chance LLP practice group heads who jumped to Sidley Austin LLP included in their lawsuit challenging a nearly $6 million clawback demand, after Clifford Chance claimed the tactics put it at a competitive disadvantage. 

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Murdaugh Fights Clerk's Bid To Ax Jury-Tampering Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former court clerk found to have interfered in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial cannot escape civil claims over the tampering, the disgraced attorney told a South Carolina federal court, stating in an opposition that the clerk cannot argue her way out of the state Supreme Court's finding that she tampered with the jury.

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DOJ Looks To Block ABA's Trump Adviser Subpoenas

By Jack Karp

The American Bar Association cannot demand documents and deposition testimony from a Trump adviser in its lawsuit over the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, since any communication between a presidential adviser and the chief executive is privileged, the government has told a New York federal court.

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Roc Nation Calls Out Alleged AI Citations In Fat Joe Case Brief

By Andrea Keckley

Roc Nation LLC has told a New York federal judge that plaintiff Terrance Dixon's opposition brief filed in a pending Rule 11 sanctions fight should be struck down in part because it includes what the company alleges are fabricated quotations attributed to real judicial decisions.

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Kasowitz Sued Over College Antisemitism Settlement Fees

By Adrian Cruz

A group of Columbia University students who reached a settlement with the school over alleged antisemitism on campus accused Kasowitz LLP of wrongfully taking over $6 million from the deal and engaging in "self-dealing and misappropriation."

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Split 5th Circ. Backs Bond Hearings For Immigrant Detainees

By Ganesh Setty

The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

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GOP Bill Would Cement DOJ Fraud Division In Federal Law

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of House Republicans are looking to put a congressional stamp of approval on the new fraud division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Says No To Amicus On Attorney Privilege In FTC Case

By Nadia Dreid

A defense bar advocacy group will not get a chance to weigh in on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon over allegations the e-commerce behemoth used attorney-client privilege to hide evidence from discovery after a Washington federal judge declined to hear from the group.

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Nadine Menendez's Attys Rebuked For Medical Disclosures

By Carla Baranauckas

A New York federal judge rebuked Nadine Menendez's attorneys on Monday for publicly filing a request to delay her surrender date that included "extensive intimate details" of her medical condition, calling the disclosure "astonishing" and ordering the parties to refile a redacted version by Wednesday.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.

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