In Salisbury v. Costco Wholesale Corp., plaintiffs brought a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging that Costco sold, as “100% agave,” tequilas that ...

Following up on an earlier post, the agenda for the Third Conflict of Laws Annual Workshop (CLAW3) is now available here. TLB ...

A U.S. gas company has sued four Russian defendants in the Southern District of New York for seizing helium containers that the gas company had sent to Russia pursuant to a helium supply contract. One ...

Tomorrow, the Second Circuit will hear argument in United States v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. to consider whether Halkbank, a Turkish state-owned bank (but not its central bank), is immune from ...

Editors’ Note: This post is cross-published at Just Security. In April, I wrote that Nicolás Maduro was likely to argue that he is immune from prosecution for cocaine importation, weapons possession, ...

The task of deciding whether a forum selection clause should be given effect can be burdensome. A federal court must evaluate whether the clause is valid. It must interpret the clause to determine ...

is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Ninth Circuit’s decision in Cisco has three main holdings. First, the court held that claims for aiding and abetting human rights violations can be brought under ...

Foreign official immunity refers to rules of international and domestic law that shield foreign officials from suit and from criminal prosecution. These rules are related to the rules of foreign ...

The threat to confiscate Russian assets is unprecedented for an additional reason: it involves assets of Russia’s central bank. To be sure, central bank assets have been the target of sanctions in ...

A core principle in U.S. intellectual property (IP) law is that IP rights are territorially limited. A U.S. patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret affords the holder exclusive rights solely ...

On August 28, 2025, Judge George B. Daniels (Southern District of New York) denied the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s (KSA) motion to dismiss claims arising from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In In re ...

The federal wire fraud statute is a workhorse for federal prosecutors. In 2021, there were more than 4,500 federal prosecutions for fraud, theft, or embezzlement, constituting 8% of federal criminal ...