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April 08, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday issued an amended opinion in its ruling to allow a 2,500-acre land exchange within Arizona's Tonto National Forest, which includes a partial dissent from U.S. Circuit Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson, who said the decision will "completely annihilate sacred Native lands."
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April 08, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce properly justified an enforcement mechanism for insufficient compliance to trigger higher antidumping duty rates against Nippon Steel Corp. on its second try, according to an opinion published Wednesday by the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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April 08, 2026
A former regulatory director at private equity-backed acquisition and development company Caliche Management III LLC is suing the company in Texas state court, saying her former bosses tried to strong-arm her into giving up her equity in the company.
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April 08, 2026
A verdict that made power utility PacifiCorp liable to a class of property owners around Oregon from Labor Day 2020 wildfires must be overturned because of a faulty jury instruction, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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April 08, 2026
A buyer of imported solar cells won't get a ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade on its challenge of the assessment of antidumping and countervailing duties until the Federal Circuit rules on the validity of a pause on those duties, the CIT said Wednesday.
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April 08, 2026
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Wednesday that a former associate has rejoined its energy and infrastructure practice group as a Houston-based partner who was recently a partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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April 08, 2026
Silicon metal from Laos and Angola imported into the U.S. is facing duty orders after the U.S. International Trade Commission found Wednesday that they are harming the domestic industry.
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April 08, 2026
A miner and the BlueRibbon Coalition are asking a Michigan district court to reject a change of venue request by several tribes and conservation groups, arguing that they can't recast the dispute over the Chuckwalla National Monument's establishment in California as one of local controversy and interest.
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April 08, 2026
Australian mining company Equatorial Resources Ltd. has parted ways with its former counsel at Clifford Chance LLP following a dispute over a roughly $2.1 million unpaid legal bill, as it awaits an arbitral award in its $1.9 billion claim against the Republic of Congo.
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April 07, 2026
A handful of federal agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday warning that Iranian-affiliated hackers are taking aim at "critical infrastructure," including drinking water and wastewater systems, leading to multiple disruptions across various sectors.
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April 07, 2026
A Wisconsin tribe is challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit allowing an energy company to reroute 41 miles of a crude oil pipeline around the tribe's reservation, claiming the Corps approved it without sufficiently assessing the risk of oil spills and other problems.
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April 07, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated its own regulations by denying exemptions from biofuel blending requirements to two oil refineries in Louisiana and Wyoming, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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April 07, 2026
A unanimous Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday denied two environmental groups judicial review of their efforts to block the expansion of a Colorado coal mine, citing incongruous arguments and a failure to submit a formal objection during the permit-review process.
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April 07, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday summarily affirmed a ruling enforcing a $1 billion arbitral award against Venezuela in a dispute with three Exxon Mobil affiliates, saying a lower court judge correctly rejected the interim government's argument that the illegitimate government of President Nicolás Maduro was wrongly allowed to argue the case.
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April 07, 2026
The government's star witness took the stand Tuesday in the criminal case against former U.S. Rep. David Rivera of Florida, telling jurors that Rivera and others kept a $50 million consulting contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company quiet because of concerns about how it would be perceived in Miami.
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April 07, 2026
The D.C. Circuit has opted not to pause litigation aimed at making Russia pay more than $242 million in arbitral awards owed to Ukrainian power and gas companies while the Kremlin appeals the circuit's foreign sovereign immunity ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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April 07, 2026
In a precedential opinion Tuesday, the Third Circuit ruled that a company's posting of the American Society for Testing and Materials' copyrighted technical standards online was a fair use of the information that did not infringe ASTM's copyright.
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April 07, 2026
A group of fishermen and seafood companies is suing the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, or LOOP LLC, over a February oil spill that saw 31,500 gallons of heavy Venezuelan crude oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, saying LOOP's slow-walking of cleanup puts their livelihoods and the local ecosystem in danger.
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April 06, 2026
A West Virginia pipeline operator breached a contract with a natural gas producer but won't face damage claims reaching anywhere from $118 million to $205 million, the Texas Business Court ruled in its second-ever bench trial.
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April 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior plans to reunite its offshore energy permitting and offshore energy safety agencies, 15 years after they were split apart in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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April 06, 2026
Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Portugal have asked the European Union to create a windfall profits tax on energy companies so governments can finance relief for spiking oil prices fueled by the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, the EU and three finance ministries told Law360 on Monday.
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April 06, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating whether imports of oil pipes from Taiwan, Austria and the United Arab Emirates are harming U.S. industry after a group of domestic companies said the products were being sold at unfair prices, the agency said Monday.
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April 06, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-profile corporate disputes, insider trading allegations, contract fights and significant rulings shaping fiduciary duty and deal litigation.
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April 06, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission flouted the Natural Gas Act and National Environmental Policy Act when it reauthorized a previously abandoned pipeline upgrade project in the Northeast, environmental and homeowner groups have told the D.C. Circuit.
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April 06, 2026
The proliferation of data centers across the U.S. is beginning to attract patent infringement lawsuits, and attorneys say the complex makeup of the facilities — with their sophisticated cooling systems and advanced server technologies typically coming from different vendors — can complicate efforts to defeat such cases.