The Trump administration on Monday finalized its rollback of Biden-era fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks, easing mandates for manufacturers to improve the miles-per-gallon efficiency of their fleets and decelerating U.S. adoption of electric vehicles.
The Trump administration on Monday finalized its rollback of Biden-era fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks, easing mandates for manufacturers to improve the miles-per-gallon efficiency of their fleets and decelerating U.S. adoption of electric vehicles.
Justice Samuel Alito on Monday recused himself from the city and county of Boulder, Colorado's climate change tort lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. and Suncor Energy, just a week before the case is set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Trump administration has asked a Louisiana federal judge to approve a $2.1 million settlement agreement with Hess Corp. for hundreds of alleged permit violations at oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico over a five-year span.
The Sixth Circuit has once again agreed to hear a dispute between FirstEnergy Corp. and a group of investors who accuse the company of hiding its involvement in a $1.3 billion bribery scandal, agreeing on Monday to weigh a grant of class certification for a second time.
An intergovernmental body tasked with managing trade between the U.S. and China has reached an agreement on $30 billion worth of nonsensitive goods exported from one country to the other that could benefit from more favorable tariff treatment.
Trade between the European Union and countries with which it has reached a trade agreement grew over twice as much in 2025 as trade with jurisdictions that don't have such a deal, the European Commission said Monday.
A group of investors failed to show how a law firm and a securities attorney who gave legal assistance to the perpetrators of a carbon capture Ponzi scheme knew the fraudsters were breaking the law, the firm and the attorney have told a Texas federal court.
The Nebraska Public Power District is asking a Colorado district court to dissolve an order that partially blocked the federal government's approval of a 226-mile, 345-kilovolt electricity transmission line in the Nebraska Sandhills, saying a supplemental memo now explains why the project is an essential response to an energy emergency.
An Avangrid Inc. subsidiary has urged a Connecticut court to restore state-mandated regulatory approval of an electric transmission line replacement project on the Metro-North Railroad corridor, arguing a state agency erroneously found the projected harms overcame the potential benefits.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can ask a jury to decide whether a former utility services employee was illegally denied a telework accommodation following a stroke, a Georgia federal judge ruled while also paring certain other claims from the agency's disability discrimination suit.
A D.C. federal judge Monday denied Spain's bid to escape litigation aimed at enforcing $105 million in two arbitral awards against the country, rejecting its argument that an underlying arbitration agreement is invalid because any such agreement is precluded by European Union law.
Investors in electric-vehicle maker Lucid Group Inc. were granted class certification in their suit alleging they suffered damages when the company disclosed it was not on track to meet its 2022 vehicle output projections.
A pair of Chubb insurers must pay a coal mining company $30 million in damages over their handling of the company's claim after a hopper collapsed at one of its silos, a West Virginia federal jury found.
Cozen O'Connor announced Monday its lobbying subsidiary has expanded its government relations resources in Washington with the recent addition of a former ExxonMobil senior adviser.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.
A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.
From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.
Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.
Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.
The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority.
Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.
