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May 17, 2019
Enviros Challenge DOI Approvals For Utah Oil Shale Project
The federal government failed to adequately assess environmental impacts before granting permits for elements of the nation’s first commercial-scale oil-shale mine and processing plant, environmental groups said in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
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May 17, 2019
Gov't Must Provide Info In Challenge To 2-For-1 Rule Order
The D.C. federal judge presiding over public interest groups' challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order requiring that for every new regulation, two rules must be eliminated, said Friday that federal agencies must do a better job complying with discovery.
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May 17, 2019
Airplane Broker Can't Slip 7-Year Sentence For Skimming
The Eleventh Circuit said Friday that the lower court did not err in ordering a 90-month prison sentence, and more than $600,000 in restitution, for a former airplane salesman convicted of skimming from his employer.
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May 17, 2019
UK Truck Cartel Class Cert. Paused Amid Mastercard Appeal
The U.K.’s competition tribunal pumped the brakes Friday on a class certification bid against Daimler and other truck manufacturers accused of a price-fixing cartel, preferring to wait at least until the country’s high court decides whether to take up Mastercard’s appeal of a decision significantly lowering the certification bar.
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May 17, 2019
9th Circ. Says Tesla Can Arbitrate Worker's Race Bias Claims
A black Tesla employee who says he was constantly subjected to racial epithets, harassment and threats at work and then ignored when he complained must pursue his claims in arbitration, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday, with the chief judge saying the panel's hand was forced by precedent.
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