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• November 26, 2025

  5 Takeaways From Eaton Trial On Acquisition Financing, Part 1

  The first part of Eaton’s closely watched U.S. Tax Court trial over the company’s financing of a 2012 acquisition has wrapped up, and the judge's questions to witnesses during the first two and a half weeks reveal that he’s leaning the government’s way on at least one of the central questions in the case. Here, Law360 offers five takeaways from the trial held Nov. 3-19, then resuming Dec. 4.

• November 25, 2025

  6th Circ. Largely Shoots Down Ohio Derailment Atty Fee Fight

  The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday largely refused to revive Morgan & Morgan's bid to halt the allocation of attorney fees from a $600 million class settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents affected by the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment disaster, but remanded it for a look into the firm's individual allocation amount.

• November 25, 2025

  Chem Group Rips Colo. Planned Recycling Accounting Ban

  A chemistry trade association told a Colorado state court that state health officials' plan to ban certain accounting practices related to chemistry recycling is unlawful and not backed by science.

• November 25, 2025

  Oil Giants Sued Over Climate-Linked Rise In Insurance Costs

  The fossil fuel industry spent decades pushing a coordinated disinformation campaign to conceal its central role in climate change, saddling homeowners with a multibillion-dollar increase in insurance costs as disasters grew more frequent and severe, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.

• November 25, 2025

  EPA Tells DC Circ. Biden-Era Soot Rule Is Fatally Flawed

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told the D.C. Circuit that its 2024 rule tightening soot pollution standards, which the EPA has been defending in litigation, is legally and scientifically flawed and must be vacated.

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