Amazon customers must now take most legal claims against the retail giant to binding arbitration, the company announced Friday, unveiling new conditions of use that also include a prohibition on users bringing proposed class actions.

A subcontractor targeted in a $110 million racketeering suit over an alleged embezzlement scheme is urging a Florida federal court to sanction the Ecuadorian utility plaintiff, saying it's being used as a "scapegoat" to cover the utility's alleged role in two soured power plant construction projects.

A Florida federal judge on Friday rejected a proposed class of private equity investors' emergency request to lift a mandated stay on their $150 million fraud suit and won't hand down a temporary restraining order that would've prevented the sale of infrastructure assets to major homebuilder D.R. Horton.

An international tribunal has dismissed a former Ennia Group executive's claims against the Netherlands over the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten's 2018 intervention in the Curaçao insurance group, finding that he no longer held an interest in shares that could support his treaty claims and that his claimed salary and pension rights did not qualify as protected investments under a Netherlands-Lebanon investment treaty.

Israeli-American 3D printing company Stratasys has won more than $2.7 million in arbitration after fending off a $440 million claim stemming from its acquisition of Origin Laboratories Inc., a developer of 3D printing software, according to documents made public Thursday.

The Seventh Circuit rejected trading firm Jump Trading LLC's bid to arbitrate a putative securities class action Thursday, finding that courts, not arbitrators, must decide whether disputes belong in arbitration when the parties haven't signed an arbitration agreement, furthering a circuit split and holding that "Jump must litigate."

Italian construction giant Webuild on Wednesday urged a Delaware federal court to pause a Chilean construction company's lawsuit aimed at enforcing a $140 million arbitral award as Webuild looks to challenge an "unprecedented" Third Circuit decision reviving the litigation.

The White House identified Thursday over 40 countries from which imports carry a heightened risk of transshipment, an illegal practice of misrepresenting goods entering the U.S. that originate elsewhere such as China, and government officials are working on a new artificial intelligence enforcement tool to address those concerns.

Fieldfisher has added corporate disputes attorney Benny Wünschmann as a partner in Berlin, launching a dispute resolution practice in the German capital as the firm continues to expand its European disputes team.

In Qatar National Bank v. South Sudan and Bank of South Sudan, a D.C. federal court recently confirmed a $1 billion arbitral award, but the judgment itself remains only the entrance to the asset-recovery exercise, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square.

While government contracts law and the hardcore scene may seem entirely unrelated, in my experience, both are about community, focus, being prepared for the unexpected and managing chaos, says Isaac Natter at Fluet.

An appeals court has affirmed an arbitral award issuing a Washington, D.C., law firm zero fees in connection with efforts by defense contractor Wye Oak Technology Inc. to enforce a $120 million judgment against Iraq, rejecting the firm's argument that an underlying fee deal was coerced.

Yasmin Al Ameen of Foley Hoag LLP helps represent Gambia before the International Court of Justice in a historic case claiming Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya people, and she also represents Armenia against Azerbaijan before the ICJ, earning her a spot among the international arbitration practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday enforced an over $2 billion arbitral award issued to a satellite communications company, ruling for the first time that the legal concept that a dispute might be better heard elsewhere does not apply in cases seeking to enforce international arbitral awards.

A D.C. federal judge Monday denied Spain's bid to pause efforts by a pair of European renewable energy investors to enforce a years-old confirmed $156.6 million arbitral award, instead giving the investors the green light to target Spain's assets in other U.S. jurisdictions.

Jessica Beess und Chrostin of King & Spalding LLP helped secure a favorable outcome for Turkey in a $1 billion claim brought by Canadian mining company Alamos Gold over a nixed gold mining project, helping to land her among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

A Washington, D.C., federal court has no jurisdiction over a contract between the Argentine government and a British inspection company, Argentina said, looking to have the company's bid to confirm a $208 million arbitration award paused, if not entirely thrown out.

The U.S. Supreme Court's most recent term closed with three consequential decisions for transnational litigation that illustrate the court's readiness to enforce a Congress-created cause of action for overseas conduct and unwillingness to create this liability itself, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

An international arbitration tribunal has largely rejected Bahrain's preliminary objections to claims brought by an Iranian state-owned oil company's trading arm over funds held in Bahraini banks, finding the company did not abuse the arbitration process by moving its corporate home to Malaysia.

As the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues to severely disrupt global commercial navigation, companies should understand the key claims likely to arise in emergency and expedited arbitration procedures — including force majeure, breach of contract and pricing disputes — and the contractual safeguards and protective measures to consider, say lawyers at McDermott.