The 5th Circuit vacated a district court’s preliminary injunction that ordered Canadian courts to adjudicate child custody and barred Texas judges from hearing parallel litigation, while affirming the lower court’s order returning two children to Canada...
The Trump administration has begun issuing refunds to importers following a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a previous tariff policy, while a separate appeals court has paused a lower court decision declaring the current 10% global tariffs illegal.
A federal judge in Manhattan authorized HSBC Securities Services (Luxembourg) S.A. to subpoena documents from the Madoff trustee under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, ruling the request tailored and proportional to the needs of related proceedings in Luxembourg.
A federal judge in Indiana denied a motion to dismiss a Hague Convention petition, ruling that an unmarried Irish father adequately alleged he holds custody rights under amended Irish law.
Cisco Systems and two of its executives face claims they helped China build a surveillance network used to target Falun Gong practitioners.
Judge Paul Oetken stays enforcement of an arbitration award in favor of Qatar Pharma pending the outcome of Saudi Arabia’s challenge to annul the ruling in English courts.
Southern District of New York Judge Jennifer L. Rochon granted a motion by plaintiffs in a securities fraud class action to issue a letter rogatory to China, allowing them to obtain Chinese law enforcement records regarding Baosheng Media Group Holdings’...
The Southern District of New York has entered final judgments against the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of certain 9/11 plaintiffs, resolving a major procedural hurdle in the consolidated multidistrict litigation.
A federal judge held that an unmarried Irish father plausibly has custody rights under Irish law — defeating a motion to dismiss his petition to return his two-year-old child from Indiana to Ireland.
A federal judge ordered a Turkish toddler returned to Turkey after rejecting the mother's claims that domestic violence and the father's own conduct in the United States barred repatriation under the Hague Convention.
The Southern District of Florida has denied Anschütz GmbH’s motion to dissolve a writ of garnishment in the ongoing Venezuela sanctions litigation, ruling that the timing of the plaintiffs’ action predates OFAC’s unblocking of the relevant Escrow Account.
The Supreme Court heard argument on whether the 1996 Helms-Burton Act abrogates the foreign sovereign immunity of Cuban government instrumentalities, bypassing the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act entirely.
The justices pressed hard on whether a time-limited property interest can sustain a perpetual trafficking claim under the Helms-Burton Act's Title III.