A federal trade court has directed the U.S. government to begin refunding billions of dollars to importers who paid tariffs later ruled unlawful by the U.S. Supreme Court. The order places the responsibility on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to calculate and return the money — with interest — potentially affecting hundreds of thousands …

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The recent wave of American military strikes on Iran—conducted alongside Israel—has ignited a fierce legal debate across capitals and courtrooms alike. With more than a thousand targets reportedly hit and several senior Iranian figures killed, the question now being asked by analysts and constitutional scholars is simple yet profound: were these attacks lawful? Among those …

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The business of betting on the future is now itself the subject of a legal gamble. Prediction-market platform Kalshi has enlisted former U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal as it battles state regulators determined to rein in its fast-expanding event-contracts model. Katyal, now a leading Supreme Court advocate at Milbank, appeared this week in litigation challenging …

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The legal aftershocks of a blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court ruling are now rattling the shipping lanes. A proposed class action filed in federal court in Miami accuses FedEx of holding onto tariff-related payments that customers say never should have been collected in the first place. The lawsuit follows a 6–3 decision by the U.S. Supreme …

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A federal courtroom in Minneapolis became the setting for a sharp rebuke of a new immigration crackdown, as a judge blocked the Trump administration from arresting thousands of refugees living in Minnesota. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim issued a preliminary injunction preventing federal authorities from detaining refugees solely because they have not yet secured lawful …

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