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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.
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November 18, 2024
Trade Court Orders Rethink Of Brazilian Lemon Juice Duties
The U.S. Court of International Trade has ordered trade officials to reconsider duties on Brazilian lemon juice, finding they failed to acknowledge that a Brazilian supplier and a Louis Dreyfus Co. subsidiary were reliant on each other.
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November 15, 2024
Ex-GE Exec's Connection To Forged Docs Is Clear, Feds Say
Prosecutors told a New York federal jury Friday that trial evidence clearly proves a former GE executive knowingly used forged documents to secure a $1.1 billion gas turbine deal in Angola and demanded millions of dollars for his troubles.
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November 15, 2024
Defense Policy Outlook Under The New Trump Administration
Donald Trump's pending return to the White House is expected to bring significant changes to defense and national security policy, including a potentially larger but less diverse military, an increase in domestic sourcing and a more transactional relationship with allies.
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November 15, 2024
Venezuelan Lawyer Relied On Ex-Dentons Atty In $54M Swap
A Venezuelan lawyer suing Dentons over a failed $54 million bolivar-to-dollars currency swap admitted Friday on the stand that he did not do any due diligence for the transaction but instead relied on what he called misinformation from an ex-Dentons attorney that she relayed to his representative.
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November 15, 2024
New Trade Secrets Case Brought In Trucker Tracking Row
A fight between two neighboring San Francisco startups that sell artificial intelligence-powered software used to monitor truck drivers has resulted in yet another lawsuit: a new state court case that accuses a CEO of personally "texting and meeting in person" with competing sales reps in order to obtain trade secrets.
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November 15, 2024
Trader Joe's Burger Maker Gets $3M For Bony Chicken Batch
A chicken wholesaler has agreed to pay $3 million to the former maker of the Trader Joe's-branded "Chili Lime Chicken Burgers" to end claims that it sent bony chicken shipments down the supply chain while misrepresenting the poultry as boneless, ultimately fueling consumer complaints.
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November 15, 2024
Semiconductor Co. ASML Faces Suit Over Trade Downturn
Semiconductor industry supplier ASML Holding NV has been hit with a shareholder class action alleging that it stunned investors as it significantly lowered its 2025 revenue forecast after earlier brushing off the potential impact of economic headwinds affecting its industry.
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November 15, 2024
OFSI Expands Sanctions Rules In Bid For More Intelligence
Britain's sanctions enforcer has introduced new rules requiring a greater number of businesses to report potential breaches of restrictions imposed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, closing gaps for the likes of precious metal traders, art dealers, insolvency practitioners and letting agencies.
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November 15, 2024
MVP: King & Spalding's Stephen J. Orava
Stephen Orava, chair of King & Spalding's global trade practice, brought a family-owned pea protein company across the finish line when the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously affirmed that plant proteins from China were hurting the domestic industry and took the reins on developing strategies targeting the potential impacts of China's overcapacity in chemical sectors, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
Chinese Amazon Sellers Say Firm Botched Settlement Talks
A group of Chinese electronics sellers have slapped a small New York law firm with a $6.4 million malpractice lawsuit, saying the firm torpedoed a potential settlement with Amazon after the online behemoth deactivated their seller accounts and withheld millions of dollars of their profits.
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November 14, 2024
DOD Wants Contractors To Report Foreign Code Sharing
The U.S. Department of Defense issued a proposed rule on Thursday requiring technology and weapons vendors to reveal whether they share source code with foreign governments, in an effort to curb potential cybersecurity risks.
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November 14, 2024
Trade Court Won't Relitigate Customs Broker Exam Dispute
The U.S. Court of International Trade has tossed a second suit brought by a Nebraska man challenging a question on his customs broker exam, finding that he had brought the same challenge to that question the first time around.
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November 14, 2024
Importer Says Its Duty Probe Answers Give It Standing To Sue
A company that imports mattresses has hit back at the government's argument that the importer cannot challenge duties it incurred because it didn't participate in an investigation into the tax, saying the company provided factual data in response to a questionnaire during the probe.
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November 14, 2024
MVP: Covington's Heather Finstuen
Covington & Burling LLP's Heather Finstuen won regulatory approval for two companies' $7.9 billion acquisition of a nuclear power company, Westinghouse Electric Co., and BAE Systems Inc.'s $5.6 billion purchase of Ball Aerospace, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
Docks Co. Urges 11th Circ. To Rehear Split Cuba Port Ruling
Havana Docks Corp. has urged the Eleventh Circuit to grant a full panel rehearing over the court's split ruling to reverse a $440 million win against several luxury cruise companies for using a Cuba port terminal that was confiscated by the country's government, saying the ruling by a three-judge panel contradicted the law.
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November 13, 2024
Nigeria Asks Justices To Take Up Circuit Split On Sovereigns
Nigeria has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards mandates judicial enforcement of arbitration awards against sovereign nations for cases that arise solely from their roles as sovereigns.
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November 13, 2024
Indigenous Groups Can Join Colombia's Fight With Glencore
An international tribunal has agreed to allow two Indigenous Wayuu communities to express their views about a massive mining project's water use in an arbitral dispute between commodities giant Glencore International AG and the Republic of Colombia.
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November 13, 2024
Trump Is Poised, Once Again, To Jolt US Trade Policy
Donald Trump's first stint in the White House saw steep tariffs against China and other trade partners, and with the Biden administration having largely maintained and even expanded those levies, the president-elect is well-positioned to further pull those levers.
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November 13, 2024
FTX Prosecutors Tout Tech Chief's 'Outstanding Cooperation'
Manhattan federal prosecutors urged a lenient sentence for former FTX technology chief Zixiao "Gary" Wang, telling the court on Wednesday that his "outstanding cooperation" was instrumental in securing the lightning-fast indictment and ultimate conviction of founder Sam Bankman-Fried for an $11 billion fraud that sank the crypto exchange.
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November 13, 2024
LNG Co. Says Full DC Circ. Must Revive Texas Project
The company behind a liquefied natural gas project on the Texas Gulf Coast urged the full D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to vacate a panel's ruling nixing its federal approval, citing another panel's decision finding the White House Council on Environmental Quality's National Environmental Policy Act regulations are unenforceable.
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November 13, 2024
Trump Picks Former Democrat Gabbard For Intelligence Chief
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had chosen former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for director of national intelligence, also confirming he had chosen Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as his secretary of state.
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November 13, 2024
Menendez Prosecutors Admit Evidence Gaffe But Deny Harm
Prosecutors in former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption case told a federal judge Wednesday they accidentally violated a court order when they gave jurors nine exhibits containing information that should have been redacted, but said the error played no part in the guilty verdict.
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November 13, 2024
MVP: White & Case's David Bond
White & Case LLP's David Bond convinced the U.S. International Trade Commission to hit the brakes on duties for a German steel company and freed an Italian aluminum company from the specter of antidumping duties, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
UK Fights To Keep Sanctions On Banking Oligarch's Wife
The U.K. government urged a London appellate court to uphold a ruling that maintained sanctions on a Ukrainian-Russian tycoon's wife, arguing that she was "plainly associated" with her husband, who has ties to Vladimir Putin.
Expert Analysis
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How A Trump Win Might Affect The H-1B Program
A review of the Trump administration's attempted overhaul of the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program suggests policies Donald Trump might try to implement if he is reelected, and specific steps employers should consider to prepare for that possibility, says Eileen Lohmann at BAL.
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Compliance Considerations For Calif. Child Labor Audit Law
California employers will need to conduct a fact-intensive analysis to determine whether a new state law that imposes transparency rules for child labor audits applies to their operations, and should look out for regulatory guidance that answers open questions about deadlines and penalties, says Sylvia St. Clair at Faegre Drinker.
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Opinion
This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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A Look At The PTAB's Assessment Of Prior Art Exceptions
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's approach over the last 10 years to assessing Section 102(b) prior art exceptions reveals a few trends, including that evidence of common ownership may have a higher likelihood of successfully disqualifying prior art under Section 102(b)(2)(C) at the institution stage, say Louis Panzica and David Holman at Sterne Kessler.
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Int'l Agreements Are Key For Safe Nuclear Waste Disposal
By replacing fossil fuels, nuclear energy has the potential to offer a major contribution to the global fight against climate change — but ensuring that nuclear power is safe and sustainable will require binding, multinational agreements for safe nuclear waste disposal, say Ryan Schermerhorn and Christopher Zahn at Marshall Gerstein.
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Series
Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.
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Applying High Court's Domestic Corruption Rulings To FCPA
After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the domestic corruption statutes in three decisions over the past year and a half, it’s worth evaluating whether these rulings may have an impact on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, and if attorneys can use the court’s reasoning in international bribery cases, says James Koukios at MoFo.
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Primer On Chinese Trade Secret Disputes For US Practitioners
Increasing cross-border disputes over trade secret misappropriation between U.S. and Chinese entities emphasize the need for U.S. practitioners to navigate China's legal landscape following recent reforms that enhance the viability of litigation in Chinese courts, say attorneys at Jones Day.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.
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John Deere Penalty Shows Importance Of M&A Due Diligence
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent $10 million penalty against John Deere underscores the risks of not conducting robust preacquisition due diligence and not effectively integrating a new subsidiary into the existing compliance framework, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Series
NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
In a relatively light few months for banking legal updates in New York, the state Department of Financial Services previewed its views on banking sector artificial intelligence use via insurer guidance, and an anti-money laundering enforcement action underscored the importance of international monitoring processes, say Eric McLaughlin and Dana Bayersdorfer at Davis Polk.
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Series
Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.
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The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash
The new Canadian digital services tax recently went into effect despite objections from the U.S., a controversy that represents an unusual mix of trade and tax policy, and many companies have been pondering how it will affect their e-commerce businesses, says Damon Pike at BDO.
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Managing Sanctions Defense Across Multiple Jurisdictions
Companies called before multiple regulators to account for the same conduct in this era of increased global sanctions and import-control enforcement should consider national differences in law and policy, and proactively coordinate their responses in certain key areas, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Building US-Japan Relationships In The M&A Market
The prospect of U.S.-Japanese mergers and acquisitions presents stronger competition to U.S. investors in the global M&A markets, while also opening up an additional exit route for sellers looking to offload strategic assets, says Nick Wall at A&O Shearman.