A District of Columbia federal judge on Wednesday held off deciding whether to restart long-delayed litigation filed by one of Russia's largest oil companies to enforce a $173 million arbitral award against Ukraine, instead ordering the Trump administration to indicate whether it wants a say in the matter first.

Two subsidiaries of Italian technology and engineering company Maire SpA risk a $1 billion fine from a court in Russia unless they drop arbitration proceedings in London against a EuroChem Group AG subsidiary owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, the EuroChem subsidiary said.

Recent U.S. and U.K. designations of Russian oil companies and related entities, as well as a new sanctions package from EU, mark a significant escalation in restrictions on the Russian energy industry and add a new layer of regulatory complications for companies operating in the global energy sector, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

Another member of the Jones Day litigation team who represented Boeing in its contract suit over production issues for fighter jet parts has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's Washington, D.C., office as a partner, making him the second in as many weeks to make the move.

Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

An international tribunal concluded that Ecuador was entitled to deny treaty protections to a Nevada company that initiated a $214 million investor-state claim over a gambling ban enacted in 2011 because the company did not have substantial business activities in the U.S., according to the now-public award.

In questioning counsel for an insolvent Dutch insurance company trying to confirm a $166 million arbitral award against convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg, two Fourth Circuit judges quipped the insurer likely wants to avoid a circuit split over interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act and keep the case out of the U.S. Supreme Court.

After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

An international tribunal in The Hague said the Republic of Ecuador must pay nearly $221 million to the Chevron Corp. in connection to a decades-long dispute over pollution in the Amazon.

A California federal judge on Tuesday dismissed on technical grounds a closely watched case in which a consumer sought to vacate an arbitral award favoring Valve Corp., the company behind the PC game marketplace Steam, over the arbitrator's "outsourcing" of his adjudicative role to artificial intelligence.

A D.C. federal court has ruled that a Turkish construction company may proceed with attaching Libyan government assets in the United States to satisfy an approximately $30 million judgment, finding that enough time has passed without a response from the country since the decision was entered.

A California federal judge on Tuesday sent a proposed illegal gambling class action against the Israeli owner of popular mobile game Coin Master to arbitration, ruling that the minor plaintiff had sufficient notice of the arbitration provision when she registered to play.

A New York state appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit from solar facility operators seeking to enforce a more than $77 million arbitration award against Italian energy conglomerate Enel SpA, finding Enel's guaranty agreements with the operators are ambiguous.

A New Jersey pharmaceutical company and Chubb have reached a settlement to end a lawsuit alleging the insurer owes nearly $6.5 million in outstanding legal fees stemming from a multibillion-dollar arbitration dispute over the development of a COVID-19 drug, according to a stipulation of dismissal from the companies. 

To allay investor concerns about its recent approval of mandatory arbitration clauses in public company registration statements, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should look to Brazil's securities arbitration model, which shows that clear rules and strong institutions can complement the goals of securities regulation, say arbiters at the B3 Arbitration Chamber.

Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

The Fifth Circuit on Monday overturned a lower court order compelling a southern Louisiana town to arbitrate a dispute over coverage for hurricane damage in light of a state law that expressly prohibits arbitration agreements for insurance contracts.

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority pushed back Monday against the 90-year-old precedent permitting the removal only for cause of Federal Trade Commission members, and perhaps those serving other independent agencies, calling those safeguards a "dried husk" and wondering where to draw the line for protected agencies.

The pandemic and initiatives from the second administration of President Donald Trump challenging decades of established scientific norms have made science more politicized, and attorneys say picking a jury and presenting scientific evidence is increasingly challenging.

The Trump administration is pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of Exxon Mobil Corp. and find that a federal law allowing U.S. victims of property seizures by the Cuban government to seek damages from entities that subsequently used the property abrogates the sovereign immunity of Cuban agencies and instrumentalities.