Foreign Policy and National Security
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A state-owned Chinese steel company told the Ninth Circuit it can’t face criminal charges alleging the business stole manufacturing trade secrets from DuPont Co., arguing it’s immune from the charges under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Ford Motor Co. has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case over a duty hike on the automaker’s imported vans, saying the Federal Circuit incorrectly categorized the vehicles as cargo vans instead of passenger vans and refused to correct the error… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The internal watchdog arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a report on Tuesday that criticized the regulator for shortcomings in monitoring and implementing a bilateral program with Mexico aimed at protecting the environment along the border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Guatemalan man and his 7-year-old daughter were spared deportation to Mexico under a policy that sends asylum-seekers south of the border while the government processes their cases, with the Third Circuit saying the migrants’ claims had to be decided “now or never”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reopen a hotline for detained immigrants to report abuse while a lawsuit plays out over whether the government wrongfully cut off the hotline after it appeared in the Netflix show “Orange Is the New Black”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 