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A U.S. appeals court has extended its block on ​a lower court ruling against the Trump ‌administration's 10% global tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act. President Trump imposed the new levy after the Supreme Court invalidated his previous emergency tariffs as exceeding his authority. The decision from the ⁠Federal Circuit appeals court allows the U.S. ​to continue collecting tariffs from three importers - two small businesses and the state of ‌Washington, ⁠which paid tariffs on purchases by the University of Washington - while ​the government's appeal plays out. “We conclude that the federal government has made a sufficient showing that it is likely to succeed on the merits,” the court wrote.

 

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President Trump has nominated former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Jay Clayton to be the country’s leading intelligence official. Trump had faced widespread criticism for his decision to install Bill Pulte, who has no known experience in intelligence, as acting director of national intelligence while searching for a permanent candidate. Clayton is U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York.

 

Financial Times

The Guardian

The Supreme Court has unanimously overturned the obstruction conviction of Ahmad Abouammo, a former Twitter employee accused of spying for Saudi Arabia. The justices unanimously ruled that ‌the U.S. Justice Department in ‌2022 wrongly secured Abouammo's conviction in California from a jury in San Francisco, when his only interactions ⁠with FBI ⁠agents had been at his home in Seattle in Washington state. Elena ​Kagan, writing for the court, said that while the offense of  knowingly falsifying a document to impede an FBI investigation "is relatively easy to prove," the law restricts where the prosecution can take someone to trial on that charge. "The trial for ​falsifying a document must take place where the defendant falsified the document," Kagan wrote. "Here that was ⁠in Seattle - ⁠meaning in venue terms, the ⁠Western District ​of Washington."

 

U.S. News

The Guardian

The U.S. Department of Justice has accused the UC Davis School of Medicine of racial discrimination in its admissions process following a six-month investigation. The school, which denies the allegations, claims its admissions practices are "rigorous, individualized, and merit-based." Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon criticized the school's approach, saying: "Davis Med's actions reflect both unabashed contempt for the rule of law and plain disregard for the potential public health consequences of putting race over merit." The investigation revealed that the school adopted practices to circumvent the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which deemed race-conscious admissions unconstitutional. The DOJ said it plans to engage in settlement negotiations with the school, warning that a lawsuit may follow if negotiations fail.

 

Los Angeles Times

San Luis Obispo Tribune

Reality TV personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley are suing Balch & Bingham and attorney Chris Anulewicz, claiming that legal errors led to their conviction on charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and tax fraud. Filed on June 5 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the lawsuit alleges that Anulewicz lacked meaningful criminal defense experience and prioritized his own interests over the couple's. The Chrisleys assert that an unlawful search by the Georgia Department of Revenue was the foundation of their federal case, and Anulewicz failed to suppress critical evidence derived from this search. “That illegal search launched the entire federal case,” the lawsuit states. They are seeking $25m in damages, citing lost income, reputational harm, and the emotional toll of their prison sentences. Todd Chrisley received a 12-year sentence, while Julie was sentenced to seven years. In 2024, their daughter Savannah appealed to President Trump for their release, which resulted in a full pardon.

 

Los Angeles Times

Kristie Carrier, a Canadian mother, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in San Francisco, alleging negligence in the design of ChatGPT, which it is said failed to address her daughter Alice's suicidal ideations. “ChatGPT took on the persona of a confidant . . . even though it was not capable of safely and responsibly engaging in this way with my child,” Carrier said in a statement. The lawsuit seeks damages and demands that OpenAI implement automatic termination of self-harm conversations and issue warnings about the platform's dangers. OpenAI faces 18 similar lawsuits from families of individuals who have attempted or committed suicide. The company claims its models are designed to direct users to real-world resources for mental health support.

 

The Globe and Mail

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unanimously ​proposed to ditch the "order protection rule," a regulation that was first adopted in 2005 ​to prohibit so-called trade-throughs, which occur when a trade happens at a bid or ‌offering ⁠price that is worse than what is quoted on another venue. The SEC said the rule had driven up costs and complexity and was no longer necessary. "I've opposed the trade-through rule since its ⁠inception and have elaborated on my concerns from this very ​stage," SEC Chair Paul Atkins said.

 

Reuters

A report from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says China-linked hackers presented the biggest espionage threat to technology companies over the past year, observing that such hacking ​campaigns align with Beijing’s strategic priorities and a sustained interest in technology ‌development, intellectual property, and information with strategic and economic value. Meanwhile, the report said North Korean hacking campaigns have “posed a major threat” in the past year, and Russia and Iran-linked hacking groups also heavily target other countries’ technology sectors for intelligence ⁠collection ​and destructive malware attacks.

 

Reuters

Mayer Brown has appointed Edmund Daniels, an energy and M&A transactions lawyer at McGuireWoods, as a partner in its Houston office, furthering its expansion in Texas. The move follows the firm's recent recruitment of six partners from McGuireWoods, including former Houston managing partner Yasser Madriz. Daniels will join Mayer Brown's projects and infrastructure and global energy practice.

 

Bloomberg Law

EU regulators ‌have hit out at Apple for blaming the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for its decision not to launch its upgraded assistant Siri AI in the region for now, saying they had rejected the company's request for an 18-month exemption from the act's obligations. "The decision not to roll out Siri AI in the EU is Apple's and Apple's only," spokesperson Thomas Regnier said, observing there was nothing in the DMA to stop the company from introducing new products in the EU. "Apple was simply unable to develop interoperability solutions that meet essential EU ​privacy and security standards," Regnier said. "In essence, [the] commission [is] asking us to conduct a very risky experiment on many, ​many, many tens of millions of users," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's marketing chief, "and we only want to ship these capabilities when we ‌can ⁠do so safely."

 

Reuters

Coupang has been fined a record ₩624.6bn ($409m) by South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission after a cyber attack exposed the personal data of nearly two-thirds of the country’s population. Regulators concluded that the company failed to implement adequate measures to detect and respond to unauthorised access. The penalty is the largest ever imposed on a single company in South Korea and follows an investigation into the retailer, which serves around 25m active members and generated ₩41tn of sales in 2024.

 

Bloomberg

Financial Times

The Korea Herald

A Reuters/Ipsos poll ‌reveals that more than half (53%) of Americans worry that the ​rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work. The survey of 4,531 U.S. adults nationwide found that the fear was spread fairly evenly across respondents by age, gender and education level. The poll found college graduates said they use AI more, with 50% saying they employ it regularly, compared to 34% of people without degrees and 40% of people overall.

 

Reuters