Flex said Monday it will acquire Electrical Power Products Inc., an Iowa-based maker of electrical power control and protection systems, in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.1 billion.
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Flex Expands US Power Footprint With $1.1B Purchase

By Al Barbarino

Flex said Monday it will acquire Electrical Power Products Inc., an Iowa-based maker of electrical power control and protection systems, in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.1 billion.

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Justices Won't Examine Mich. Immunity In Pipeline Row

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a Sixth Circuit decision that greenlighted Enbridge Energy LP's lawsuit challenging Michigan's decision to revoke an easement for the company's controversial Line 5 oil and gas pipeline.

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Trump, Biden Changes To Endangered Species Regs Vacated

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge on Monday threw out Endangered Species Act regulation changes from the first Trump administration and Biden administration for being unlawful, saying the regulations contradicted the animal and habitat conservation law, including by paring back federal agency duties and narrowing the scope of the law's protection.

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Nearby Polluters Must Face Gowanus Canal Cleanup Suit

By Gautama Mehta

A New York federal judge on Sunday declined to dismiss a lawsuit brought by National Grid seeking to force 40 other parties accused of polluting Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal to pay their share of the Superfund cleanup costs.

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OIL AND GAS

Burford Considers Arbitration After 2nd Circ. Tosses $16B Win

By Nadia Dreid

Burford Capital Ltd. says it is contemplating taking its $16 billion fight with Argentina into international arbitration after the Second Circuit wiped out a judgment the litigation funding firm had won against the nation in New York federal court, sending its stock prices tumbling.

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$432M Damages 'Flawed,' NGL Co. Says In Biz Court Trial

By José Luis Martínez

A group of affiliated natural gas liquid entities operating in western Texas challenged damages claims worth over $400 million against them on Monday in Texas Business Court, saying that the method to calculate the damages amount is not up to par with state law.

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RENEWABLES

Trade Court Remands China Solar Duty Calculation Again

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce must again attempt to justify why it used Romanian figures to value inputs in a Chinese solar cell antidumping duty administrative review when most of its other calculations relied on Malaysian data, according to an opinion published Monday by the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Chancellor Rejects Musk Recusal Bid But Transfers Tesla Suits

By Jarek Rutz

The top judge of the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday rejected Elon Musk's bid to force her off three high-profile cases involving stockholders and Tesla, but reassigned the litigation anyway, citing concerns that intense public attention could undermine confidence in the proceedings.

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MINING

Judge Tosses ESA Challenge Against Nevada Lithium Mine

By Crystal Owens

A Nevada federal judge says the federal government didn't violate the Endangered Species Act in approving a more than 7,100-acre lithium mining project that conservation groups argue will drive a rare wildflower into extinction, finding the decision was not arbitrary or capricious under recent Supreme Court precedent.

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Emmerson Seeks $1.22B From Morocco Over Potash Mine

By Joyce Hanson

British mining company Emmerson PLC on Monday submitted its arguments before an international tribunal based on Morocco's purported breaches of a bilateral investment treaty, accusing the country of expropriating a potash mine in a $1.22 billion arbitration case.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

AI Presents A Make-Or-Break Moment For Outside Counsel

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by corporate legal departments is forcing a long-overdue reset of the relationship between inside and outside counsel, and introducing a significant opportunity to shed frustrating inefficiencies and strengthen collaboration for firms willing to embrace the shift, says Intel Chief Legal Officer April Miller Boise.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Lack Of Harm Dooms Ex-Estate Firm Partner's Bid For Notices

By Abigail Harrison

The founding partner of a trusts and estates law firm lost his bid to have the North Carolina Business Court order the firm to notify thousands of clients of his departure and hand over their contact information, with the judge ruling the lawyer failed to show he suffered irreparable harm.

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Senate Dems Probe Musk's Alleged Role In CTA Retreat

By Sarah Jarvis

Three Democratic senators have asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide information on Elon Musk's possible involvement in the rollback of the Corporate Transparency Act, saying the department's moves allow entities tied to the billionaire to operate in obscurity.

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Brief

Moye White, Ex-Landlord Settle $4M Denver Lease Dispute

By Zach Dupont

Days before the start of a bench trial between a Denver landlord and defunct law firm Moye White LLP in state court the two parties reached a settlement, ending the litigation where the landlord accused the firm of owing almost $4 million.

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Blumenthal Presses DHS Chief To Scrap ICE Warrant Memo

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is looking for assurances from the newly installed secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, that he will honor his apparent pledge to rescind a policy that allows immigration agents to enter private property without a judicial warrant.

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NC Attys Oppose DOJ Interference In State Ethics Complaints

By Hayley Fowler

A group of North Carolina lawyers is opposing the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed rule allowing the attorney general to review state-level ethics complaints against the department's attorneys, saying such a change would undercut the Tar Heel State's ability to regulate government lawyers.

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Nixon Peabody Hires Hometown Litigator In Rhode Island

By Tracey Read

Nixon Peabody LLP has added a civil and criminal business litigation and trial attorney from Godfrey & Kahn SC to its complex disputes practice as a partner in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Beasley Allen Seeks Stay Of DQ In Federal J&J Talc MDL

By Jake Maher

The Beasley Allen Law Firm asked a New Jersey federal court on Monday to hold off on disqualifying it from talc litigation against Johnson & Johnson while it appeals the disqualification order which it called "unprecedented and incorrect."

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70+ Republicans Ask Justices To Review NY Gun Liability Law

By Courtney Bublé

More than 70 Republican lawmakers from both the House and Senate have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision that upheld New York state's public nuisance statute, which allows lawsuits against gun manufacturers that cause public harm.

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Michigan Judge OKs Lawyers' Exit From Atty's Retaliation Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Michigan federal judge has allowed a trio of lawyers to withdraw from representing an attorney accusing her former mentor of sexual harassment and her former law firm of retaliation.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

Association of Corporate Counsel

Burford Capital LLC

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Consolidated Edison Inc.

Earthjustice

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

FIRST

Intel Corp.

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd.

Jinko Solar

Johnson & Johnson

Line 5 LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

National Grid PLC

National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc.

North Carolina State Bar

Phillips 66

Sierra Club

Tesla Inc.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The New York Times Co.

Twitter Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

YPF SA

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alexander Dubose

ArentFox Schiff

Ashcraft & Gerel

Barnes & Thornburg

Bayard PA

Beasley Allen

Beck Redden

Bleichmar Fonti

Boies Schiller

Brady Cobin

Brown Legal Group PLLC

Cheshire Parker

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Placitella

DLA Piper

Davis Graham

Deborah Gordon Law

Dickinson Wright

Faegre Drinker

Gibbs & Bruns

Godfrey & Kahn

Goodman Kalahar

Gordon Rees

Grant & Eisenhofer

Grunfeld Desiderio

Heyman Enerio

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

Kellogg Hansen

Kienbaum Hardy

Kirkland & Ellis

Law Office of Keith Altman

McGinn Montoya

McKenna PLLC

Mowry & Grimson

Nixon Peabody

Noble Law Firm

Norton Rose

Nossaman LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

Oak City Law

Olsman MacKenzie

Patterson Harkavy

Prickett Jones

Quinn Emanuel

Reynolds Frizzell

Richards Layton

Ross Aronstam

Schaerr Jaffe

Sills Cummis

Steptoe LLP

Young Conaway

deLeeuw Law

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Land Management

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Maritime Commission

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Fish and Wildlife Service

Michigan Attorney General's Office

National Marine Fisheries Service

New York Attorney General's Office

U.S. Army

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Nevada