U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to endorse the argument that climate change lawsuits brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies are constitutionally prohibited, even as they questioned whether such lawsuits can be sustained.
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to endorse the argument that climate change lawsuits brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies are constitutionally prohibited, even as they questioned whether such lawsuits can be sustained.
U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday pondered the risks of far-reaching fallout whether they allow or restrict burgeoning lawsuits targeting oil companies, acknowledging fears of near-limitless litigation but also struggling to distinguish climate torts from famous legal battles involving tobacco and opioids.
A D.C. Circuit panel on Monday denied youth plaintiffs' request to stay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's repeal of a landmark finding that greenhouse gas pollution endangers people's health while they pursue a legal challenge.
A Colorado federal judge Monday granted Wyoming's request to be added to an environmental nonprofit groups' lawsuit challenging the leasing of public lands in Colorado and Wyoming for oil and gas development as an intervenor defendant.
Canada's Cenovus Energy Inc. has agreed to acquire Athabasca Oil Corp. in a cash-and-stock transaction with an implied enterprise value of $5.7 billion, expanding Cenovus' access to oil-sands deposits in northeastern Alberta, the companies announced Monday.
The Group of 20 nations failed to reach a consensus on a statement highlighting the need to eliminate imports of goods created with forced labor, with solely the U.S., Argentina and Mexico backing a document calling forced labor both a human rights and economic threat.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to disturb a ruling dismissing a surety company's lawsuit claiming BP and Chevron needed to pony up $11 million to pay for offshore decommissioning costs.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a D.C. Circuit opinion ordering Venezuela's state-owned oil company to face long-pending allegations of unlawfully seizing an Oklahoma-based oil drilling company's rigs.
Oil giants Exxon, Chevron, Shell and others are at odds with two Native American tribes over when to schedule a trial in the tribes' consolidated lawsuits in Washington state court accusing the companies of downplaying the risks of climate harm.
A D.C. federal court on Monday ordered former shareholders of Yukos Oil Co. owed some $50 billion by Russia to explain why their enforcement suit should not be stayed while the parties await the D.C. Circuit's decision in a parallel case that raises an identical underlying issue.
A Liechtensteiner natural gas utility said Monday that it is "considering immediate legal actions" to set aside an arbitral award favoring Moldova in a dispute over allegedly unfair tariffs and other actions that restricted the utility's access to Moldova's natural gas network.
Energy transition infrastructure-focused private equity shop Energy Capital Partners, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, on Monday revealed that it closed a single-asset continuation vehicle with $834 million in tow, which will be used for its investment in energy company Next Wave Energy Partners LP.
Conservation groups and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe are asking a district court to decide a Nebraska utility's motion to lift a partial block on the approval of its 226-mile, 345-kilovolt electricity transmission line before construction starts, arguing that the federal government again ignored important aspects of the problem.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sought the solicitor general's views on whether Washington tribes can pursue damages against a Canadian mining company for alleged pollution to the Columbia River.
A former coal executive convicted in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to delay his upcoming sentencing hearing, arguing he recently learned of allegations that a key government witness in the case "continues to pay bribes."
Businesses that wait for direction from U.S. Customs and Border Protection or the courts before seeking refunds of their finally liquidated International Economic Emergency Procedure Act duties in court may find them out of reach as the earliest potential limitation deadlines are approaching, says Samuel Finkelstein at LMD Trade Law.
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters.
A pair of U.S. senators from Delaware have filed an ethics complaint with the Third Circuit raising concerns over U.S. Circuit Judge Jennifer Mascott's purported operation of a public affairs agency, months after she was officially confirmed to the appellate court.
Following widespread public outrage over how a former student's rape allegations were handled, Cornell University has hired former deputy U.S. attorney general and King & Spalding LLP partner Sally Yates to lead an internal review of its policies and procedures.
Chief Justice John Roberts has transferred the Federal Circuit's investigation of suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to the Eleventh Circuit, the latter court said Tuesday.
Texas Supreme Court justices seemed hesitant to bar attorneys outright from using artificial intelligence voice transcription software during depositions, pointing out Tuesday that multiple safeguards exist to ensure accuracy.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to uphold precedent allowing states to use juries of fewer than 12 people in serious criminal cases, saying overruling it could unsettle thousands of convictions and force many states to change their criminal procedure laws.
When attorneys come before retired Judge Michael Panter, a former circuit court judge in Cook County, Illinois, they sometimes forget that he is not there to decide their cases, but to resolve them.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said University of Virginia School of Law professor John F. Duffy has joined the agency as its general counsel and acting solicitor.
