MLex: Thomson Reuters’ infringement claim against ROSS Intelligence is ‘no more than an ordinary copyright case’ despite its artificial intelligence (AI) component, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said on 30 September 2026. The panel affirmed that Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and that ROSS’s use of them was not fair, while distinguishing the case from disputes involving generative AI.

MLex: The US Court of International Trade (CIT) denied the Trump administration’s request for a stay on 20 May 2026 after the federal government lost a case to impose a temporary 10% global tariff under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), coordinating with the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), imposed sanctions on 146 targets within the Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organization. FinCEN finalised a rule under section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act severing Huione Group from the US financial system for laundering $4bn in illicit proceeds. The UK froze a £12m North London mansion and other properties owned by the Cambodia-based network led by Chen Zhi, which operates scam compounds using forced labour for online investment fraud targeting US and UK citizens.

The US Department of the Treasury has announced that, in order to prevent terrorist financing and money laundering, it has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that will identify Al-Huda Bank as 'a foreign financial institution of primary money laundering concern'. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has also proposed a new rule that will sever the bank from the US financial system by prohibiting domestic financial institutions and agencies from opening or maintaining a correspondent account for or on behalf of the bank and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) reported that it has designated Hamad al-Moussawi, the owner and president of the board of directors of Al-Huda Bank. The bank has been found to have been exploiting the US financial system to support designated foreign terrorist organisations, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated Russia-based Aeza Group and its affiliates under Executive Order 13694 for providing bulletproof hosting services to cybercriminals. The action includes sanctions against two subsidiary companies and four senior executives. The measures target infrastructure supporting ransomware attacks, technology theft and illegal drug trading. The sanctions block all US-based property and interests of designated persons and prohibit US persons from transacting with them.

MLex: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit previewed a potential favourable ruling for the Trump administration in its battle to preserve global tariffs under section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, indicating that it might see a lower Trade Court ruling as incorrect.

When arbitrating disputes seated in the United States of America (USA or US), domestic disputants can choose from a number of arbitral institutions to administer the proceedings. This Practice Note is intended to familiarise practitioners with the most commonly used arbitral institutions in the US: the American Arbitration Association (AAA); the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR); and JAMS. This Practice Note outlines the key differences between the institutions in terms of panel (tribunal) selection, applicable rules, and arbitration fees, as well as other important features. In this Practice Note, the following rules are referenced, except where otherwise noted: • AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures (2022) in force 1 September 2022 (AAA Rules; AAA) • CPR Rules for Administered Arbitration (2019) in force 1 March 2019 (CPR Administered Rules; CPR) • JAMS Comprehensive Arbitration Rules & Procedures (2014) in force 1 June 2021 (JAMS Rules; JAMS) AAA, CPR, and JAMS—profiles AAA AAA, the oldest provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) worldwide, was formed following the enactment

MLex Summary: US biodiesel imports into the EU face expiry reviews of existing anti-dumping and countervailing duties, under European Commission notices published in the EU’s Official Journal on 31 July 2026. The reviews, requested by the European Biodiesel Board, will assess whether ending the measures would allow dumping or subsidisation and injury to EU producers to continue or to recur. Both investigations must conclude within 15 months.

MLex: A request for input on whether the US should join the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Riyadh Design Law Treaty (RDLT) has generated a unified, affirmative response from key stakeholders, strengthening the case for US participation in an agreement nearly two decades in the making.

Arbitration analysis: In re Webuild SPA (‘Webuild’) the US District Court for the Southern District of New York was presented with a motion to vacate the court’s order granting ex parte application for discovery pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 and a motion to quash a subpoena. The court held that the motions should be granted, and orders to aid discovery be denied, given that the Arbitral Panel at hand could not be considered a ‘foreign or international tribunal’. The court’s decision was based upon the recent Supreme Court ruling ZF Automotive US, Inc v Luxshare, Ltd, 142 S.Ct. 2078 (2022), which generally held that parties to most international arbitrations seated outside the US cannot utilise US courts to provide assistance in relation to discovery. While ZF Automotive does not precisely establish which arbitration panels fall within the scope of § 1782, it set forth factors which allow courts, as was done here, to analyse whether a given panel does so. Written by Peter A Halprin, partner at Pasich LLP's New York office and Xenia Campas Gene, an LLM candidate in Dispute Resolution and Advocacy at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law.

Law360: In Morgan v Sundance in 2022, the US Supreme Court made clear that no special rules apply to a waiver of an arbitration provision.[1]

In Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems, Case C-311/18 (Schrems II), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield based on the potential interference with data subject rights caused by US government surveillance carried out under Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Executive Order 12333 (EO 12333). In its decision, the CJEU also referred to PRISM and UPSTREAM, two surveillance programs revealed following Edward Snowden’s leaks in 2013. This Q&A, by Richard Lawne, associate in the Privacy, Security and Information team at Fieldfisher, provides a brief overview of the surveillance regimes referred to by the CJEU in its decision. It does not address all of the surveillance activities carried out by the US government or the laws governing law enforcement requests (like the CLOUD Act). On 10 July 2023, the EU commission adopted a new adequacy decision for EU-US data transfers, known as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This means personal