Sarah B. Biser

By Lizbeth R. Levinson and Alexander Keyser

May 23, 2025 – A new trade petition filed with U.S. authorities could saddle plywood imports from China, Indonesia, and Vietnam with crushing

Continue Reading Anti-dumping Petition Targets Plywood Imports from China, Indonesia and Vietnam Importers and Exporters Must Act Now or Risk Punitive Tariffs Exceeding 400%

In May 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided an issue that has divided the federal courts of appeals.  When the claims at issue in a federal court suit are subject

Continue Reading The U.S. Supreme Court Decides that Federal Courts Should Stay, Rather than Dismiss, Cases that Are Subject to Arbitration, If One Party Requests It

The United States Supreme Court may soon decide whether U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Israel may sue the Palestinian Authority (“PA”) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (“PLO)” for damages

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Dewberry Engineers Inc. (“Dewberry Engineers”), a prominent engineering firm, has been locked in an on-again, off-again trademark dispute with a real estate development firm called Dewberry Group, Inc. (“Dewberry Group”)

Continue Reading U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Damages Issue in Trademark Dispute Involving Construction Engineering Firm

U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether Holocaust Survivors’ Lawsuit Against Hungary in the United States for Expropriation of Their Property Is Permitted Under the Commercial Activities Exception to the Foreign

Continue Reading U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether Holocaust Survivors’ Lawsuit Against Hungary in the United States for Expropriation of Their Property Is Permitted Under the Commercial Activities Exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that a court, not an arbitrator, must decide whether a dispute is subject to arbitration when parties have agreed to

Continue Reading U.S. Supreme Court Decides That, Where Parties Have Agreed to Two Contracts that Are In Conflict as to Whether a Dispute Between the Parties Is Subject to Arbitration, A Court Must  Decide Which Contract Governs, Not an Arbitrator

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided an issue concerning cases that are subject to arbitration that has divided the federal courts of appeals:  when the claims at issue in a

Continue Reading U.S. Supreme Court Decides that Federal Courts Should Stay, Rather than Dismiss, Cases that Are Subject to Arbitration, If One Party Requests It

Conflicts of interest are of great interest to law firms, prosecutors, and arbitrators.  In two major international arbitrations, parties are seeking review by the United States Supreme Court of the

Continue Reading Litigants in Two Major International Arbitrations Ask the Supreme Court to Review the Standard for Showing “Evident Partiality” By Arbitrators

The standard that courts should apply in deciding whether to vacate an arbitration award based on arbitrator conflicts of interest is drawing increased focus in appeals to the United States

Continue Reading Another Petition to U.S. Supreme Court Seeks Review of the Standard Governing the Vacatur of Arbitration Awards Based on Arbitrator Conflicts of Interests