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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on recently filed a civil suit to force Stephen A. Wynn to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) as a foreign agent working for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The DOJ claims that in 2017, Wynn, former chief executive of Wynn Resorts, leveraged his relationship with
Unless you just returned from weeks of trekking the jungles of Borneo, you know that Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter for about $43 billion. The chattering classes are divided on what this may mean for their favorite communications medium, and unsurprisingly, Musk himself has weighed in. Responding
Ongoing economic turmoil makes now the right time to discuss U.S. bankruptcies and preference actions. In the United States and much of the world, inflation is running out of control and there are asset bubbles everywhere you look – housing, real estate in general, used and new cars, and so on. Between the war in
Back in December, we discussed the U.S. State Department’s plans to start issuing gender-neutral passports. On April 11, 2022, the new policy took effect, with passport application forms (DS-11) now offering an X gender marker. The DS-11 describes the X as standing for “unspecified or another gender identity.” Passport applicants can select the X gender
Arbitration is often the preferred, if not contractually required, forum for resolving business disputes. This is primarily because of arbitration’s perceived efficiencies in cost and time-to-resolution as compared to litigation in U.S. state or federal courts. Federal law has embraced arbitration through the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), which, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court,
The past two weeks have seen a flurry of proposed regulatory activity in cryptocurrency. Governments around the world are making a sustained push for regulation similar in form and scope to regulations in more traditional financial markets. Many are now wondering who will regulate my crypto, and how do they plan to regulate it? Who
A new antidumping (AD) petition was filed on March 31, 2022 by a U.S. domestic producer seeking the imposition of additional duties on imports of preserved mushrooms from Spain, France, Polan, and Netherlands. The U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”) will conduct an investigation to investigate whether the named subject imports are being sold to the
This post concerns a recent Sixth Circuit decision at the intersection of removal and the interlocutory appeal doctrines as they apply to preliminary injunctions. The case is Schuler v. Adams, No. 21-1613 (Mar. 7, 2022). (Fair warning – this post is bit of procedural wonkiness – something I have a fondness for but others find
Though exporting products, services and technologies from the United States is relatively easy, especially as compared with many other countries, our clients are always peppering our international trade lawyers with export questions. In this post, I attempt to answer the seminal question related to exporting from the United States: What are the basics to ensure
Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign and democratic nation, has shattered Europe’s long peace, cancelled the peace dividend bestowed by what was thought to be the end of the Cold War, and provoked widespread condemnation. With Ukrainian cities, towns, military bases, infrastructure, citizens, and refugees coming under what at times appears to
