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December 10, 2024
Warner Bros., Comcast Settle 'Harry Potter' TV Show Fight
Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast's United Kingdom and European subsidiaries settled their contract dispute over co-production of a new "Harry Potter" television series Monday as part of a new long-term distribution deal between the two media giants.
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December 09, 2024
Honduras Looks To Duck $11B Claim From US Developer
The Republic of Honduras has told the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes it objects to immediately facing a nearly $11 billion investor-state dispute before an ICSID tribunal, saying it will only consent to arbitration after local remedies are exhausted.
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December 09, 2024
Live Nation Denied Rehearing In 9th Circ. Arbitration Fight
The full Ninth Circuit has refused to reconsider an appellate panel's recent decision invalidating Live Nation and Ticketmaster's choice of a digital arbitration startup for consumer antitrust claims over allegedly exorbitant ticket prices.
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December 09, 2024
Mexico Found Liable For Axing Oil Drilling Contract
An International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tribunal has found that Mexico breached the North American Free Trade Agreement when a Mexican administrative court confirmed the termination of an oil drilling contract between the country's state-owned energy firm and Texas-based investors.
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December 09, 2024
High Court Won't Hear Zimmer Biomet Royalties Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday shot down Zimmer Biomet Holdings' challenge to the Seventh Circuit's finding that the company shouldn't have stopped paying royalties on knee replacement devices it developed using an orthopedic surgeon's various patents after those patents expired.
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December 06, 2024
$490M Suit Over Kurdish Telecom Loan Paused For Arbitration
A New York federal judge has paused litigation filed by a subsidiary of Kuwaiti logistics firm Agility Public Warehousing Co. to enforce a $490 million judgment against the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq while a related arbitration plays out.
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December 06, 2024
Rugby League, Fox Sports Move To End Meta Tracking Row
Fox Sports Australia and the National Rugby League are urging a California federal court to nix a proposed class action accusing them of disclosing viewers' personal data to Meta and other third parties without their knowledge or consent, saying the dispute belongs in Australia.
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December 06, 2024
High Court Bar's Future: Gupta Wessler's Jennifer Bennett
As a litigator for workers and consumers, Jennifer D. Bennett made her debut at the U.S. Supreme Court at an inauspicious time, when conservative justices were consistently helping corporations move major cases onto advantageous turf in arbitration. But since then, Bennett has amassed a flawless argument record and helped to turn the tide, making her one of the high court's most promising young advocates.
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December 05, 2024
Insurers Say Hurricane Damage Suit Still Must Be Arbitrated
A group of insurers is urging a Louisiana federal court not to reopen litigation over millions of dollars of hurricane damage that was previously ordered into arbitration, saying a new decision on the arbitration of insurance matters from the state's top court doesn't trump a related Fifth Circuit opinion.
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December 05, 2024
3rd Circ. Affirms ConocoPhillips Ruling On $8.5B Debt
The Third Circuit on Thursday affirmed a ruling paving the way for ConocoPhillips' participation in an auction for control of the U.S. oil giant Citgo to enforce an $8.5 billion debt against Venezuela.
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December 05, 2024
Justices Told 9th Circ. Got Test Wrong In $1.3B Award Fight
Indian satellite communications company Devas Multimedia and its shareholders have each submitted briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to nix the Ninth Circuit's decision to refuse enforcement of a $1.3 billion arbitral award against a state-owned division of India's space agency.
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December 04, 2024
$486M Djibouti Award Fight Settled In DC
A port operator has agreed to end litigation to enforce a $486 million arbitral award issued against Djibouti, several months after the D.C. Circuit ruled that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP would have to prove it had authority to represent the company.
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December 04, 2024
Guo Trustee Balks At Boies Schiller's Clawback Transfer Bid
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's bankruptcy in Connecticut says Boies Schiller Flexner LLP should not be allowed to move a nearly $654,000 clawback action from bankruptcy court to district court, suggesting a bankruptcy judge is better poised to consider his asset recovery theories.
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December 04, 2024
Chinese Semiconductor Co. Seeks OK Of Emergency Award
A Chinese semiconductor company has asked a California federal court to enforce an emergency arbitral award barring a commodity trading firm from dissipating its assets as the two companies arbitrate a $5.4 million dispute over a botched contract for two lithography machines.
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December 03, 2024
DC Circ. Won't Revisit Energy Cos.' $377M Suits
The D.C. Circuit will not rehear a case brought by renewable energy investors looking to enforce some $377 million in arbitral awards against Spain over nixed economic incentives, declining to revisit its ruling over the summer that the awards can be enforced.
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December 03, 2024
DOJ Plans To Seize $3.4M From Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
The U.S. Department of Justice is looking to seize $3.4 million from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska based on the sale of a music studio in Burbank, California, saying he must forfeit the sale proceeds because they're linked to his sanctions violations.
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December 03, 2024
Justices Skeptical Of Hungary Holocaust Seizure Fight Ruling
A D.C. Circuit decision greenlighting expropriation claims brought by Holocaust survivors against Hungary may be in jeopardy after a hearing Tuesday during which the U.S. Supreme Court appeared receptive to arguments that the historical commingling of assets is not enough to overcome the country's sovereign immunity.
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December 03, 2024
Former OFAC Official Joins Hughes Hubbard In DC
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has announced that a former lead sanctions investigator and analyst at the Office of Foreign Assets Control has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner in its sanctions, export controls and anti-money laundering practice.
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December 02, 2024
Russia Looks To 4 FSIA Cases In Bid To Stay $5B Award Suit
Russia urged a D.C. federal judge to pause a case against it by a Yukos Oil Co. unit seeking to enforce $5 billion in arbitral awards, saying Monday that four parallel Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act cases are pending before the Supreme Court and the D.C. Circuit that could affect the suit.
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December 02, 2024
Two Latham Lawyers In Paris Head To De Gaulle Fleurance
Two international arbitration lawyers have departed Latham & Watkins Paris to join French firm De Gaulle Fleurance & Associes, where they plan to help launch an Ibero-American disputes practice.
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December 02, 2024
ByteDance Says Ex-Worker Can't Avoid Counterclaims
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, says a former engineer shouldn't be able to dodge its counterclaims in a dispute stemming from his termination, arguing that just because he wants to drop his allegations doesn't mean those counterclaims are moot.
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December 02, 2024
Mining Cos. Ask Justices To Sink Peruvians' Pollution Claims
The Renco Group Inc., owned by U.S. billionaire Ira Rennert, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Eighth Circuit ruling that greenlit a lawsuit filed by more than 2,000 Peruvians who are seeking to hold The Renco Group and other companies liable for alleged lead poisoning tied to a smelting and refining complex in rural Peru.
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November 27, 2024
Ex-Disney Cruise Line Employee's Claim Sent To London
A Florida federal judge has ordered a former Disney Cruise Line employee to arbitrate in London his claim that the company wrongly fired him after he twice tested positive for marijuana, disagreeing with the man that Disney had waited too long to file its bid for arbitration.
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November 27, 2024
Special Master In Citgo Sale Suit Goes Back To Drawing Board
The special master overseeing the sale of Citgo's parent company in a proceeding aimed at satisfying billions of dollars in Venezuelan debt has agreed to abandon his proposed sales plan after it became clear how little support it had garnered from creditors, he told a Delaware judge on Tuesday.
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November 27, 2024
Stephenson Harwood Says Trade Export Co. Owes $100K In Fees
U.K.-based Stephenson Harwood LLP has sued an Alabama trade export company that specializes in Latin America, saying it owes more than $100,000 in legal fees after the law firm pursued arbitration on the company's behalf against London-based accountancy firm Parker Lloyd Ltd.
Expert Analysis
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EU Investor-State Dispute Transparency Rules: Key Points
The European Union's recent vote to embrace greater transparency for investor-state arbitration will make managing newly public information more complex for all parties in a dispute — so it is important for stakeholders to understand the risks and opportunities involved, say Philip Hall, Tara Flores and Charles McKeon at Thorndon Partners.
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25 Years Of OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention
Marking its 25th anniversary this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's anti-bribery convention has advanced legislative reforms and reshaped corporate conduct in dozens of countries amid the persistent challenges of uneven enforcement and political pressure, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Intra-EU Enforcement Trends
Hungary recently declared a distinct stance on the European Court of Justice's 2021 ruling in Moldavia v. Komstroy on intra-EU arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty, highlighting a critical divergence in the bloc on enforcing investment awards and the complexities of balancing regional uniformity with international obligations, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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Opinion
Now More Than Ever, Lawyers Must Exhibit Professionalism
As society becomes increasingly fractured and workplace incivility is on the rise, attorneys must champion professionalism and lead by example, demonstrating how lawyers can respectfully disagree without being disagreeable, says Edward Casmere at Norton Rose.
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'Outsourcing' Ruling, 5 Years On: A Warning, Not A Watershed
A New York federal court’s 2019 ruling in U.S. v. Connolly, holding that the government improperly outsourced an investigation to Deutsche Bank, has not undercut corporate cooperation incentives as feared — but companies should not completely ignore the lessons of the case, say Temidayo Aganga-Williams and Anna Nabutovsky at Selendy Gay.
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Series
Serving In The National Guard Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My ongoing military experience as a judge advocate general in the National Guard has shaped me as a person and a lawyer, teaching me the importance of embracing confidence, balance and teamwork in both my Army and civilian roles, says Danielle Aymond at Baker Donelson.
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A Midyear Forecast: Tailwinds Expected For Atty Hourly Rates
Hourly rates for partners, associates and support staff continued to rise in the first half of this year, and this growth shows no signs of slowing for the rest of 2024 and into next year, driven in part by the return of mergers and acquisitions and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, says Chuck Chandler at Valeo Partners.
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Opinion
States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions
Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.
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Series
Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.
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UK Supreme Court Confirms Limits To Arbitration Act Appeals
Every year, disappointed parties come out of U.K.-seated arbitrations and try to seek redress in the English courts, but the U.K. Supreme Court's recent decision in Sharp v. Viterra serves as a reminder of the strict restrictions on appeals brought under the Arbitration Act, says Mark Handley at Duane Morris.
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Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice
The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.
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In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State
On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.
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How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts
As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.
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Series
Boxing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Boxing has influenced my legal work by enabling me to confidently hone the skills I've learned from the sport, like the ability to remain calm under pressure, evaluate an opponent's weaknesses and recognize when to seize an important opportunity, says Kirsten Soto at Clyde & Co.
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Opinion
Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper decision will shape the contours of industry self-regulation in the years to come, providing opportunities for this often-misunderstood practice, says Eric Reicin at BBB National Programs.