An Australian mining company said Tuesday it has successfully challenged the Republic of Ghana's choice of arbitrator in its $277 million breach of contract claim before an ad hoc arbitral tribunal seated in the West African country's capital city of Accra.

A Louisiana federal judge lifted a stay and vacated an order to arbitrate a $7 million Hurricane Ida damage claim against domestic surplus insurers, ruling that a recent decision from Louisiana's top court represents an "'intervening change in the controlling law.'"

President Donald Trump's sweeping directive to halt federal reviews and permitting of wind farms creates fresh uncertainty over whether many projects slated to be built can secure necessary approval and financing.

Not surprisingly for a court where the majority are strict textualists, the U.S. Supreme Court justices appear poised to rule in favor of Hungary in Republic of Hungary v. Simon, reaffirming the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as a narrow exception to jurisdiction, say attorneys at Lewis Baach.

Two owners of a payment processor have asked an Oklahoma federal judge to toss a Native American tribal entity's lawsuit claiming they defrauded it out of $1.5 million, arguing that it isn't a citizen for the purposes of diversity jurisdiction under Tenth Circuit precedent.

The Federal Trade Commission has formally approved a consent order resolving antitrust concerns over Chevron Corp.'s planned $53 billion acquisition of Hess Corp., one that bars CEO John Hess from joining the combined company's board.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to review a petition asking it to resolve whether an e-commerce seller's "virtual presence" in a state is enough to satisfy a jurisdictional test requiring "minimum contacts" with that state.

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Department of Justice has told a Texas federal judge that a woman who pled guilty to conspiring to monopolize cross-border sales of used vehicles should be sentenced to up to 14 months of home detention.

A Pennsylvania defense contractor is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to unravel a D.C. Circuit decision to throw out a $120 million judgment against Iraq, arguing that review is needed to ensure a uniform interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

More than five years into litigation aimed at enforcing nearly $2 billion in defaulted bonds against Venezuela's state-owned oil company, the country is urging a New York federal judge to nix the case on the grounds that the bonds are illegal under its domestic law.

Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.

Whether 2024’s uptick in new Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases will continue this year will likely depend on federal courts’ resolution of several issues, including those related to excessive fees, defined contribution plan forfeitures, and pleading standards for ERISA-prohibited transaction claims, say attorneys at Groom Law.

America's energy landscape has been marked in recent years by the Biden administration's enthusiastic support of renewable energy projects, but international disputes experts are predicting that the incoming Trump administration's promise to derail such projects could land the U.S. in legal hot water.

Colombia is defending itself from Sea Search-Armada LLC's $10 billion claim in a decades-old dispute over a massive cache of gold, silver and emeralds from an early 18th-century shipwreck off its coastline, telling an international tribunal the claimant "has no rights whatsoever" to the sunken treasure.

A D.C. Circuit panel wrestled Thursday with what constitutes a "colorable" assertion of sovereign immunity in arbitration enforcement proceedings as India seeks to undo a $155.8 million judgment against it stemming from an arbitration over a soured satellite licensing deal.

All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Thursday it has reached an agreement with Colombia aimed at strengthening the two countries' defenses against investor-state claims in an underlying trade pact, one of the last actions of the outgoing Biden administration following years of requests by Democratic lawmakers.