Fed Circ Probes Standing In Cocoa Import Child Labor Case

By Dylan Moroses

Federal Circuit judges challenged a labor rights organization's arguments for standing to force U.S. Customs and Border Protection's response to a petition to ban U.S. chocolate producers from importing cocoa from the Ivory Coast during oral arguments Thursday.

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UK Drafts Carbon Border Tax Rules To Match EU System

By Josh White

The U.K. tax authority released draft regulations on the country's carbon border tax regime Thursday that would broadly align it with the European Union's system for taxing carbon-intensive imports.

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Trade Court Shifts Tariff Refund Proceedings To New Suit

By Jack McLoone

The underlying U.S. Court of International Trade suit serving as the core of the government's development of a refund system for the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs has changed after the original case was dismissed.

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IRS Urged To Clarify Foreign-Owner Rules For Energy Credits

By Kat Lucero

Public power and nuclear associations, along with battery groups, are among stakeholders urging the Internal Revenue Service to clarify foreign ownership rules that could disqualify projects from certain clean energy tax credits, emphasizing that timely guidance is critical to securing project financing.

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Brief

ITC Probing Possible Harm Of 4 Countries' Chemical Imports

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it has opened antidumping duty investigations into imports of polytetramethylene ether glycol, or PTMEG, from China, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam to determine whether the imports are harming U.S. industry.

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ITC Opens Investigation Into Imported Screen Protectors

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it is opening an investigation into Belkin's claims that a rival is importing and selling screen protectors that infringe a trio of Belkin patents.

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Albright Won't Toss BMW Suit Over German Patent Cases

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge said he wouldn't dismiss a suit brought by carmaker BMW AG that was intended to block two patent litigations from moving forward in German court, despite those cases having been withdrawn.

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Investor Says Chinese Firms Took $476M EV Venture Stake

By Jared Foretek

A British Virgin Islands company accused a Chinese state-owned enterprise of exploiting COVID-19 travel bans to seize its 11% stake in an electric vehicle manufacturer, wiping out the investor's equity without compensation and stealing proprietary technology.

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Rivera's Ex-Partner Kept Cut Of $50M Venezuela Contract

By Carolina Bolado

Real estate developer and convicted drug trafficker Hugo Perera told jurors Thursday he regretted "1,000%" getting involved with former U.S. Rep. David Rivera in a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company but admitted he kept his $5 million cut of the deal.

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Chinese Vape-Maker Seeks Narrow Discovery In Battery Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

The Chinese manufacturer of Geekvape is asking to limit discovery in a lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for burns a man suffered when the battery for his vape exploded while in his pocket, arguing that what the plaintiff asked for was too broad.

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Welch's Maker Tells ITC Rival Infringing 2 Fruit Snack Patents

By Jack McLoone

The manufacturer of Welch's Fruit Snacks brought its fight against what it claims are patent-infringing yogurt-covered snacks produced by rival Cibo Vita to the U.S. International Trade Commission, the ITC said Thursday.

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'Made In America' Rules Raise Stakes For Gov't Contractors

The convergence of widely varying "buy American" requirements, increased enforcement efforts and continuing regulatory attempts to limit foreign sourcing suggests that government contractors should carefully review their supply chain and country-of-origin compliance to remain competitive, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Series

Alpine Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Skiing has shaped habits I rely on daily as an attorney — focus, resilience and the ability to remain steady when circumstances shift rapidly — and influences the way I approach legal strategy, client counseling and teamwork, says Isaku Begert at Marshall Gerstein.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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Another Gov't Atty From Vt. Joins Stris & Maher's Team

By Jack Rodgers

A former civil chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont has joined Stris & Maher LLP's practice as a partner, the firm announced Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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Airline Worker Asks To Expand Sanctions Row In Bias Case

By Emily Brill

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sending her union's president pictures of aborted fetuses is pushing for additional remedies in a sanctions dispute stemming from her long-running religious discrimination lawsuit against the airline, from which she received $800,000 after winning a jury trial in 2022.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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