International Trade

  • November 20, 2024

    Cross-Border Sales Were Unlawful Monopoly, Feds Say

    Prosecutors have urged a Texas federal judge to deny a dismissal bid from two people accused of using violence to monopolize cross-border sales of used cars, saying the individuals were not operating the lawful clerical service they claimed to be running.

  • November 20, 2024

    German Tesla Supplier Says Mich. Is Wrong Venue For Parts Suit

    A German auto parts supplier referenced Elon Musk's diverse business ventures in an attempt to convince a Michigan federal judge Wednesday that it doesn't belong in a lawsuit over one of its North American affiliates' alleged breach of a supply contract for Tesla vehicles, arguing the foreign entity has no ties to the Wolverine State.

  • November 20, 2024

    US Garlic Cos. Push To Keep Duties On Chinese Imports

    Domestic garlic producers urged the U.S. Court of International Trade to reject a Canadian food trader's challenge to duties on the boiled cloves from China, saying the product is covered by an antidumping duty order issued in 1994.

  • November 20, 2024

    'Rip And Replace' Woes Underscored By Senate Hearing

    A major industry group has again called on lawmakers to address the lack of funding needed to completely remove risky Chinese-made gear from U.S. telecommunications networks.

  • November 20, 2024

    RJ Reynolds Loses Early Exclusion Bid In ITC Vape IP Case

    A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has refused for now to block imports of certain vape products during an investigation into R.J. Reynolds' allegations that a variety of companies were infringing an electronic smoking patent.

  • November 20, 2024

    Bankman-Fried Tech Deputy Who Parsed Code Avoids Prison

    A Manhattan federal judge allowed tech expert Zixiao "Gary" Wang to avoid jail Wednesday for his role in the $11 billion FTX fraud, crediting his effort to detail programming "back doors" that enabled Sam Bankman-Fried to loot the bankrupt crypto exchange.

  • November 19, 2024

    DC Circ. Wonders Where To Land On Terrorism Liability Claims

    Hypotheticals were flying Tuesday morning at the D.C. Circuit, where a three-judge panel spent more than two hours trying to figure out whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision means they need to stop the revival of a suit accusing pharmaceutical companies of funding terrorism in Iraq.

  • November 19, 2024

    11th Circ. Weighs Whether Tornado Cash Sanctions Overreach

    An Eleventh Circuit panel on Tuesday dove deep into the mechanisms of cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash as the judges weighed whether government sanctions intended to curb illicit finance on the protocol are permitted under the law.

  • November 19, 2024

    Dentons Atty Owed No Duty In $54M Currency Swap, Jury Told

    A Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner on Tuesday defended the actions of a former Dentons attorney in a failed $54 million bolivar-to-dollars currency swap, telling jurors that she did not owe a duty to the Venezuelan attorney suing her for malpractice because she never represented him as his attorney. 

  • November 19, 2024

    Trump DOT Pick Puts Highway, Road Rebuilds Back In Focus

    President-elect Donald Trump's selection of former Wisconsin congressman Sean Duffy to serve as his secretary of transportation would send a savvy communicator to liaise with Capitol Hill and refocus the federal government's infrastructure investment priorities more on highways, roads and bridges and less on renewables and clean-energy initiatives, experts say.

  • November 19, 2024

    Samsung Loses ITC Patent Case Against Chinese Screen Co.

    Samsung has failed to convince a U.S. International Trade Commission judge to side with it in its intellectual property campaign against a major Chinese rival that makes replacement screens for mobile devices.

  • November 19, 2024

    Cuban Bank Can't Block Fund's €72M Debt Claim

    Cuba's former central bank can't block an offshore fund from suing it for over €72 million ($76.2 million) of unpaid sovereign debt because the lender authorized the assignment of the debt to the fund, a London appeals court ruled Tuesday.

  • November 19, 2024

    Trump Names Wall St. Exec For Chief Commerce Role

    Donald Trump will nominate longtime Wall Street financier Howard Lutnick to head up the U.S. Department of Commerce, the president-elect announced Tuesday, selecting a top member of his transition team to oversee a vast bureaucracy that grapples with key trade policies.

  • November 18, 2024

    State Department Sanctions Official Rejoins Crowell & Moring

    After more than three years working as a senior sanctions policy official in the U.S. State Department, Erik Woodhouse has returned to private practice at Crowell & Moring LLP in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • November 18, 2024

    Spacecraft Export Control Comment Period Pushed To Dec. 23

    The U.S. Department of Commerce and Department of State issued a 30-day extension for the public to give their input and comments on a set of rules seeking to ease controls on exports of spacecraft technology to U.S. allies intended for bolstering the U.S. commercial space industrial base.

  • November 18, 2024

    Menendez Calls Trial Evidence Flub 'Deeply Troubling'

    Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez raised red flags Monday about "deeply troubling" recent revelations that Manhattan federal jurors accidentally received unredacted text messages before convicting him of bribery, slamming prosecutors for trying to brush aside the significance of this evidence.

  • November 18, 2024

    Ex-Crypto CEO Bribe Case Unsealed As Firm Inks $10M Deal 

    The former CEO of a cryptocurrency mining company tried to bribe Japanese government officials to be able to open a resort in the country, according to an indictment unsealed Monday alongside the company's $10 million deferred prosecution agreement.

  • November 18, 2024

    Trump DOE Pick Signals Funding Flux For Clean Energy Cos.

    President-elect Donald Trump tapping oilfield services executive Chris Wright as U.S. energy secretary underscores the frostier federal reception that awaits clean energy companies, but experts say the industry shouldn't cede the playing field to fossil fuels just yet.

  • November 18, 2024

    Dems Probe Treasury On Effects Of Crypto Mixer Sanctions

    A group of House Democrats pressed the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday to provide information on how effective its sanctions regime against cryptocurrency mixing services has been at detecting and curbing illicit finance.

  • November 18, 2024

    ITC Judge Clears Lenovo In Ericsson Patent Fight

    A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has found that claims in a pair of Ericsson patents were invalid, handing a win to Lenovo in a case over mobile phones, laptops and other related products.

  • November 18, 2024

    Chiquita Wants New Bellwether Trial In $38M Paramilitary Case

    Chiquita told a Florida federal court that a landmark $38 million bellwether loss to the families of victims of Colombian right-wing paramilitaries was the "product of numerous legal and evidentiary errors" that handicapped the banana company, which now wants a new trial.

  • November 18, 2024

    Treasury Finalizes Tougher Foreign Investment Law Penalties

    The Treasury Department on Monday finalized a rule sharpening its enforcement authority to stop or demand additional information regarding foreign-investment deals that the U.S. deems potential threats to national security.

  • November 18, 2024

    Medical Group Wants Justices To Review IP Safe Harbor Fight

    A medical device trade group has said the U.S. Supreme Court should take up an appeal of a Federal Circuit decision Edwards Lifesciences said broadened a drug-development safe harbor to avoid patent infringement, saying the circuit court misread the provision.

  • November 18, 2024

    Alstom Wants Injunction In Dispute Over 'Buy America' Waiver

    Train manufacturer Alstom has urged a D.C. federal judge to block a pending federal disbursement for a $12 billion high-speed rail project, saying the payment could "irrevocably" allow the project to use trainsets that violate federal "Buy America" requirements.

  • November 18, 2024

    Former GE Exec Guilty Of Faking Docs In $1.1B Power Deal

    A Manhattan federal jury on Monday convicted a former GE Power executive of using forged documents, then taking a $5 million kickback, in what federal prosecutors called a corrupt effort to close a $1.1 billion energy deal in Angola.

Expert Analysis

  • How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment

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    Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.

  • Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity

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    Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.

  • New Export Control Guidance Raises The Stakes For Banks

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    Recent guidance from the Bureau of Industry and Security alerts banks that they could be liable for facilitating export control violations, the latest example of regulators articulating the expectation that both financial institutions and corporations serve as gatekeepers to mitigate crime and aid enforcement efforts, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • Opinion

    Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules

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    The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • Opinion

    Tariffs' Economic Downsides Outweigh Potential Revenue

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    Import tariffs proposed by the campaign of former president Donald Trump would generate revenue like other taxes, but policymakers must consider the net-negative impact of associated consumer and downstream-industry costs, harm to exporters, potential foreign retaliation and reduction in economic output, says Erica York at the Tax Foundation.

  • Series

    Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.

  • GAO Decision Offers Insights On Verifying TAA Compliance

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    The U.S. Government Accountability Office's August decision in Matter of: HPI Federal LLC serves as a reminder of the importance of verifying Trade Agreements Act compliance — and of understanding the parameters of an agency's acceptance of an offeror's TAA representation, say Amy Hoang and Sarah Barney at Seyfarth.

  • Insurance Considerations For Cos. That May Face Strikes

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    The recent surge in major work stoppages in the U.S. highlights the growing importance of strike preparedness for businesses, which includes understanding strike insurance coverage options, say Chris D’Amour and Brooke Duncan at Adams and Reese.

  • Opinion

    Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits

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    With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.

  • How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program

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    During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.

  • Series

    Home Canning Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Making my own pickles and jams requires seeing a process through from start to finish, as does representing clients from the start of a dispute at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board through any appeals to the Federal Circuit, says attorney Kevin McNish.

  • Smith's New Trump Indictment Is Case Study In Superseding

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    Special counsel Jack Smith’s recently revised Jan. 6 charges against former President Donald Trump provide lessons for prosecutors on how to effectively draft superseding indictments in order to buttress or streamline their case, as necessary, says Jessica Roth at Cardozo Law School.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • Opinion

    Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

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