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Law360: International Arbitration

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The sprawling racketeering case against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has faded from the spotlight in recent years, but the Chinese telecommunications giant has bucked convention by proceeding to a historic criminal trial over accusations of rampant intellectual property theft, sanctions violations and brazen lies to banks and U.S. officials about its business practices.
Posted: September 4, 2026, 11:35 pm
Five co-defendants in the federal government's dismissed securities fraud case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani are still on the hook for bribery conspiracy and other charges after a New York federal judge denied the government's request to have the claims dropped, saying the government had not yet supplied a sufficient factual basis to support its dismissal request.
Posted: September 4, 2026, 10:15 pm
The Dominican Republic claimed victory in a $100 million arbitration over a dismissed garbage management contract with a company owned by a French businessman, the country has said.
Posted: September 4, 2026, 6:45 pm
Ukrainian state-owned Oschadbank is urging a New York federal court not to toss its lawsuit aimed at enforcing a nearly 8-year-old, $1.1 billion arbitral award against Russia over the seizure of its Crimean assets via a French judgment, pushing back against the Kremlin's allegations of forum shopping.
Posted: September 4, 2026, 6:05 pm
The Ninth Circuit denied Roblox Corp.'s bid to compel arbitration in a suit by a man alleging his daughter was targeted on the platform by adult predators, saying its delay in seeking arbitration while it litigated the suit on the merits waived any right to arbitrate.
Posted: September 4, 2026, 5:57 pm
Crypto trading firm Jump Trading LLC and its subsidiaries must face the bulk of a proposed securities class action from investors who claim it misled them and manipulated the market for Terraform Labs' stablecoins in the lead up to the stunning collapse of the Terraform ecosystem.
Posted: September 3, 2026, 10:52 pm
A Nicaraguan medical products distributor is urging a Florida federal court to reconsider its order compelling arbitration of its dispute with GE Precision Healthcare LLC, pointing to a recent $15 million Nicaraguan court judgment that also dismisses the U.S. company's arbitration-based jurisdictional objection.
Posted: September 3, 2026, 7:48 pm
The D.C. Circuit on Thursday refused to reconsider its decision affirming the enforcement of a $391 million arbitral award issued against Argentina in a 17-year-old dispute over the renationalization of its state-owned airline and denied the country's petition for a rehearing. 
Posted: September 3, 2026, 5:23 pm
King & Spalding LLP said Thursday it has added a veteran trial attorney with over two decades of experience to its business litigation practice as a New York-based partner from Cooley LLP.
Posted: September 3, 2026, 3:48 pm
A lifetime of learning and performing ballet taught me that success — whether in dance or practicing law — comes only through hours of thorough preparation, boundless energy and relentless effort, says Sharon Katz-Pearlman at Greenberg Traurig.
Posted: September 3, 2026, 10:55 am
The Seventh Circuit said Wednesday that it will wait to make its arbitration rejection official so a Chicago trading firm can ask the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether it was correctly ordered to litigate proposed class securities manipulation accusations.
Posted: September 2, 2026, 9:51 pm
Norwegian authorities have seized a Russian ice-strengthened vessel that is used for commercial expeditions, as part of global efforts by Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company to enforce a $4.2 billion arbitral award against the Kremlin.
Posted: September 2, 2026, 5:13 pm
A bill regulating attorneys' and arbitrators' use of generative artificial intelligence has unanimously passed the California State Legislature and is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.
Posted: September 2, 2026, 3:16 pm
The U.S. Department of Labor backed Aramark's attempt to keep in court its allegations that Aetna cost the company millions by mismanaging health benefit claims, telling the full Fifth Circuit that a panel correctly held that the case fell under an exception in the arbitration agreement.
Posted: September 2, 2026, 1:56 pm
An Australian judge on Tuesday denied Equatorial Resources Ltd.'s attempt to block its former counsel at Clifford Chance LLP from seeking arbitration over a roughly $3.46 million unpaid legal bill, incurred as the mining company pursues a claim worth up to $1.9 billion against the Republic of Congo.
Posted: September 1, 2026, 11:49 pm
A former Securitas worker's proposed wage-and-hour class action against the guard service will move forward following a Washington appeals panel's ruling Monday that upheld a lower court's rejection of the company's bid to force the ex-employee into arbitration.
Posted: September 1, 2026, 10:37 pm
The Federal Communications Commission's heart was in the right place when it floated the idea of requiring emergency alerts to include visual symbols, but satellite television providers just aren't set up to display those symbols, DirecTV has told the agency.
Posted: September 1, 2026, 9:38 pm
A Florida federal judge denied a request by two Spanish companies to avoid interest on an arbitration award involving missed rental payments to a Panamanian hotel-casino operator during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding there was a "case or controversy" even though costs were paid more than a year after the proceeding ended.
Posted: September 1, 2026, 6:03 pm
Arbitrations between gaming giant Valve Corp. and nearly 15,000 gamers will remain paused as the Ninth Circuit weighs whether the antitrust disputes are eligible for arbitration under the company's updated subscriber terms, according to a bench ruling Monday from a Seattle federal judge.
Posted: August 31, 2026, 11:29 pm
A Texas appellate court has revived Occidental Petroleum's attempt to arbitrate a multimillion-dollar dispute stemming from a project to deploy a technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gases in Australia, saying a tribunal in British Columbia must decide for itself whether it has jurisdiction.
Posted: August 31, 2026, 11:08 pm