The Department of Justice has sent another clear message that global trade fraud sits at the top of its enforcement agenda. Following the release of an August 2026 memo and rule that created the National Fraud Enforcement Division (NFED or
Three developments since October 1 extend the buildout of DOJ’s fraud enforcement infrastructure that we covered in our prior post on the Fraud Division’s Priorities Memo and Strike Force expansion. First, Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the National
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s office has issued cease-and-desist letters to six online prediction market operators offering sports-related “event contracts,” joining a growing list of states pursuing similar enforcement actions.
On September 30, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit revived a putative securities fraud class action against Ocugen, Inc., a small, publicly traded pharmaceutical company, holding that a stock’s rapid price recovery after a corrective
On October 9, 2026, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued General License No. 135, “Authorizing Transactions Related to the Sale, Delivery, Offloading, and Importation of Diesel Fuel of Russian Federation Origin,” temporarily easing
On October 8, 2026, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) granted Plaintiff Freestyle World, Inc.’s (Freestyle World) motion for class certification and appointment of class counsel. The relief sought by Freestyle World, on behalf of itself and the proposed
On October 5, 2026, a group of importers led by V.O.S. Selections filed a brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit urging the Court to uphold the Court of International Trade’s (CIT) universal injunction directing the
In Husch Blackwell’s September 2026 Trade Law Update you’ll learn about the following updates in international trade and supply chain law:
The Senate confirmed Keith Sonderling as U.S. Secretary of Labor on September 30, 2026, by a 47-41 vote. Sonderling had already been leading the Department of Labor (DOL) in an acting capacity following former Secretary Lori Chaves-DeRemer’s departure in April.
After years of false starts, Congress may finally be nearing a meaningful overhaul of the federal permitting process. On September 30, 2026, the leaders of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
