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March 06, 2025
Sudan Accuses UAE Of Violating Anti-Genocide Treaty
Sudan hit the United Arab Emirates with a claim at the International Court of Justice on Wednesday, alleging that the Middle Eastern country's "unlimited support" of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has enabled genocide to be waged against the Masalit people of Darfur.
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March 06, 2025
Mining Co. Seeks Arbitration Of $7B Dispute With Venezuela
The subsidiary of a Bermuda-based mining company asked an international arbitration institution to settle a dispute in excess of $7 billion against the Venezuelan government, saying its actions damaged the company's investments in a mining project.
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March 05, 2025
US Looks For Pause In PetroSaudi $380M Seizure Suit
The United States has asked a California federal court to stay its suit to seize part of a $380 million arbitral award issued to a PetroSaudi unit, saying the civil case is up in the air because the oil producer's sole owner was convicted in August in Swiss criminal court.
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March 05, 2025
Mining Co. Says Colombia Still Owes On $8.9M Award
A British mining and metals company has brought an $8.9 million arbitral award it won against Colombia following a dispute over nickel mining royalties to federal court in Washington, D.C., arguing that the country has only paid a fraction of the amount due.
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March 05, 2025
A&O Shearman Int'l Law Partner Moves To Gibson Dunn
An international arbitration partner from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has moved to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and told Law360 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that he was excited to join a team committed to client service and a global powerhouse firm.
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March 04, 2025
Justices Asked To Uphold Ruling Against Anti-Terror Law
The Palestine Liberation Organization is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a ruling striking down a 2019 law nixing a jurisdictional hurdle for lawsuits stemming from terrorist attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories, arguing that the law "attempts an end-run around settled constitutional analysis."
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March 04, 2025
Meijer Says 1st Circ. Must Resolve Takeda Arbitration Order
Grocery store chain Meijer on Tuesday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to allow it to immediately appeal his ruling granting Takeda Pharmaceutical's bid to arbitrate the grocer's antitrust claims over a constipation drug, arguing that the case presents several issues that the First Circuit needs to address.
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March 04, 2025
Construction Co. Slams Iraq Attys' Appearance In $120M Suit
Archirodon Construction (Overseas) Co. has asked the D.C. Circuit to block a law firm from representing Iraq as the country fights efforts by the company to enforce a $120 million arbitral award in a dispute over a major port project.
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March 04, 2025
Malawi Telecom Regulator Looks For OK Of $8M Award
Malawi's telecommunications regulator is urging a New Jersey federal court to enforce an $8.6 million arbitration award against a U.S. software company stemming from a soured contract to provide Malawi with a telecommunications monitoring system.
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March 03, 2025
Ruling Nixing $1.3B Award May Be In Jeopardy At High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised during oral arguments on Monday to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision refusing to enforce a $1.3 billion arbitral award issued to an Indian satellite communications company, as the justices grappled with a new argument from a unit of India's space agency.
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March 03, 2025
Knicks And Raptors Set Arbitration Hearing In Data-Theft Suit
An NBA arbitration hearing is scheduled to take place in July in the New York Knicks' lawsuit against the Toronto Raptors over claims a Knicks video director hired by the Toronto team had acted as a "mole" and provided his new team with proprietary data.
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March 03, 2025
Insurers Must Proceed With Arbitrating $40M Resort Dispute
A Hawaii federal judge scolded a group of foreign and domestic insurers for ignoring his order to arbitrate a claim for at least $40 million in storm losses at two resorts, saying his ruling "was not advisory."
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March 03, 2025
3rd Circ. Preview: Litigation Funder, J&J Seek Relief In March
The Third Circuit's case lineup this month will task panels with determining if an American litigation funder can keep its dispute with a German law firm in federal court, and whether Johnson & Johnson can decertify class claims accusing the company of artificially inflating its stock price by failing to disclose the alleged cancer risks of its talc products.
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March 03, 2025
Egyptian Tycoon Says Baker Botts Overcharged In $7M Claim
An Egyptian energy mogul has told a London court that Baker Botts LLP breached Solicitors Regulation Authority rules when it failed to control its costs as he continued to fight the firm's claim for $7 million in fees.
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March 03, 2025
Justices Turn Away Peru Mining Pollution Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by a mining company controlled by billionaire Ira Rennert to resolve whether the Eighth Circuit incorrectly denied the dismissal of claims raised by over 1,000 Peruvians alleging improper pollution.
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February 28, 2025
Up Next At High Court: Gun Violence Liability & Nuclear Waste
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to consider Mexico's attempt to hold gun manufacturers and distributors liable for cartel-related gun violence and a nuclear waste site dispute that could determine who can challenge future agency actions.
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February 28, 2025
Russia's $34M Award Suit Appeal Must Be Nixed, Cos. Say
Ukrainian gas companies that won a $34 million arbitral award against Russia urged the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to summarily affirm a ruling rejecting the country's sovereign immunity defense, saying Moscow is just trying to prolong the proceeding with overtly unmeritorious claims.
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February 28, 2025
Kazakhstan Axes $54M Award In Dispute With Mining Co.
Kazakhstan for the second time overturned a $54.5 million arbitral award issued to a Canadian minerals company over a terminated uranium processing project, when a London judge ruled Friday that a tribunal failed to consider the country's arguments on causation and loss.
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February 27, 2025
Honduras Loses Bid To Duck US Developer's $11B Claim
An international tribunal has rejected Honduras' bid for an early exit from a politically sensitive $10.7 billion claim asserted by a U.S. property developer over a nixed law that created special economic zones known as ZEDEs, ruling Wednesday that the developer was not obligated to first exhaust local remedies.
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February 27, 2025
11th Circ. Urged To Revive Captivity Claims Against Cruise Co.
Two former crew members who served aboard a Celebrity Cruises Inc. ship urged the Eleventh Circuit to reinstate their COVID-19 related false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims in a proposed class action against the company, arguing they were wrongly tossed after getting remanded to the lower court.
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February 27, 2025
Sierra Leone Accuses Jenner & Block Of Fraudulent Overbilling
Facing an $8 million fee suit pending in D.C. federal court, the Republic of Sierra Leone on Thursday brought counterclaims accusing its former counsel from Jenner & Block LLP of fraudulently overbilling for work the firm did on its behalf between 2019 and 2022.
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February 27, 2025
Poland Says Oil Trader's $35M Award Can't Be OK'd
Poland is urging a D.C. federal court not to enforce a now-annulled $36 million arbitral award issued to the parent company of what was once the country's largest petrochemical and oil product trader, saying the commodities giant knowingly took the risk that the award would one day be nixed.
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February 26, 2025
Pornhub Data Privacy Suit Will Go To Arbitration
A group of foreign companies that allegedly operate the website Pornhub have won their bid to send a proposed data privacy class action into arbitration, after a California federal judge ruled that an arbitrator must decide whether the companies waived their right to arbitration.
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February 26, 2025
Holocaust Case Ruling Puts Similar Claimants In Tough Spot
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Friday rejecting an expansive view of a sovereign immunity exception appears to have put even longer odds on lawsuits filed by claimants suing over Nazi-looted property.
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February 26, 2025
Zimbabwe Says $440M Arbitral Award Can't Be Enforced
The Republic of Zimbabwe is opposing a bid for summary judgment by a Swiss-German family and two forestry and sawmill companies several months after the D.C. Circuit ruled that a lower court could enforce $440 million worth of arbitral awards against the country.
Expert Analysis
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Equal Rights Limit State Immunity
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales' recent determination that Spain’s London embassy could not dodge a former U.K.-based employee’s discrimination claims by invoking sovereign immunity reaffirms its position that employment and human rights should come before the privileges of foreign powers, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray’s Inn.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.
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Series
Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
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Opinion
Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
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Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example
Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Perspectives
Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines
KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.
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Critical Steps For Navigating Intensified OFAC Enforcement
The largely overlooked SkyGeek settlement from the end of 2024 heralds the arrival of the Office of Foreign Assets Control's long anticipated enhanced enforcement posture and clearly demonstrates the sanctions-compliance benefits of immediately responding to blocked payments, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
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AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex
Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering
Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.
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A Halftime Analysis Of DOJ's Compensation Pilot Program
The U.S. Department of Justice appears to consider the first half of its three-year pilot program on compensation incentives and clawbacks to be proceeding successfully, so companies should expect prosecutors to emphasize the program and other compliance-related considerations early in investigations, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Series
Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.
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Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations
In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.
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Series
Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.
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A Deep Dive Into Singapore's New Int'l Arbitration Rules
The latest revisions to the Singapore International Arbitration Centre's rules, effective as of Jan. 1, contain numerous innovative and industry-leading updates, including new rules on coordinated and emergency procedures, and third-party funding, say attorneys at WilmerHale.