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  1. May 31, 2024

    FirstEnergy Denied Bid To Boost Objection To Discovery Order

    An Ohio federal judge on Friday denied FirstEnergy Corp.'s objections to not having a chance to further support its bid to shield internal investigative documents from a class of investors and two of its indicted former executives, saying the objections are moot because they've already been overruled.

  2. May 23, 2024

    FirstEnergy Wants 6th Circ. To Shield Bribe-Probe Docs

    FirstEnergy Corp. is pursuing the Sixth Circuit's input into its request to shield internal investigative documents from a class of investors and from two of its indicted former executives, saying the documents contain privileged legal advice given in the wake of a $1 billion bribery scandal.

  3. February 02, 2024

    FirstEnergy Rips Investor Clarification Bid Amid Cert. Appeal

    FirstEnergy Corp. told an Ohio federal judge that investors are making an "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" bid for clarification on a class certification ruling in their suit over the company's role in a high-profile bribery scandal, saying such a clarification in the middle of an ongoing appeal would require an unnecessary, additional round of briefing.

  4. January 11, 2024

    FirstEnergy Investors Seek Damages Clarification In Cert. Row

    FirstEnergy Corp. investors asked an Ohio federal judge who certified their class claims stemming from the company's role in a high-profile bribery scandal to clarify that the court didn't assume the damages methodologies for claims under different federal securities statutes were interchangeable, as FirstEnergy has claimed in its appeal to the Sixth Circuit.

  5. January 03, 2024

    FirstEnergy Says Cert. Appeal Justifies Pausing Investor Case

    FirstEnergy Corp. has again urged an Ohio federal judge to pause an investor class action brought against it over its role in a notorious bribery scheme by the Buckeye State's house speaker, arguing that its pending appeal of class certification could alter the case "in almost every respect."

  6. December 04, 2023

    FirstEnergy Lands Stay In Investor Suit Over Bribery Scandal

    An Ohio federal judge and a magistrate judge have asked a special master to issue a report and recommendation on a bid by FirstEnergy Corp. to stay all discovery in an investor suit over the company's involvement in a massive bribery scheme to bail out two failing nuclear energy plants, while the utility company appeals class certification.

  7. November 29, 2023

    FirstEnergy Must Give Internal Investigation Info To Investors

    First Energy investors suing the company over the massive bribery scheme to bail out two failing nuclear energy plants can get documents relating to an internal investigation conducted by two major law firms, a special master ruled on Wednesday, reasoning that the company had not sufficiently proved that the materials are shielded by attorney-client privilege.

  8. November 17, 2023

    6th Circ. To Decide Fate Of FirstEnergy Investor Class

    The Sixth Circuit agreed Thursday to weigh in on whether a lower court was right to certify a class of FirstEnergy investors who say they lost money when it was revealed that the company had bribed Ohio officials to secure a $1 billion bailout of two failing nuclear plants.

  9. May 09, 2023

    FirstEnergy Nonprofit Must Divulge Info In Shareholder Suit

    A nonprofit formed to funnel FirstEnergy Corp. money to Ohio public officials in a $60 million bribery scandal has two weeks to turn over to shareholders documents produced by a company attorney who was also a nonprofit executive, a Buckeye State federal judge ordered Tuesday.

  10. May 02, 2023

    FirstEnergy Says Class Can't 'Obscure Failure' In Cert. Appeal

    FirstEnergy Corp. Tuesday urged the Sixth Circuit to undo the certification of an investor class that is suing it, alleging it bribed Ohio state legislators.

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