The D.C. Circuit on Friday wiped out a U.S. Department of Energy order to keep open a Michigan coal-fired power plant slated for retirement, saying it represents an unjustified expansion of the agency's emergency authority under the Federal Power Act.
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DC Circ. Nixes Energy Dept.'s Order To Keep Coal Plant Open

By Keith Goldberg

The D.C. Circuit on Friday wiped out a U.S. Department of Energy order to keep open a Michigan coal-fired power plant slated for retirement, saying it represents an unjustified expansion of the agency's emergency authority under the Federal Power Act.

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NRC Targets Red Tape In Broad Overhaul Of Reactor Regs

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday unveiled a proposed overhaul of its nuclear reactor licensing and oversight regulations, the agency's latest step to implement an executive order directing it to refocus on encouraging new nuclear power development.

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Atlas Energy Inks $17M Deal To End Investor Suit Over Reorg

By Bonnie Eslinger

Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. has reached a $17 million settlement to resolve shareholder claims over the oilfield services company's 2023 reorganization, according to a copy of the proposed agreement filed Friday in the Delaware Chancery Court.

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OIL AND GAS

Tatneft Says Ukraine Is Politicizing $173M Award Appeal

By Caroline Simson

The Russian oil company Tatneft pressed the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to restart litigation aimed at enforcing a confirmed $173 million arbitral award against Ukraine, accusing the country of relying on "unsupported assertions and innuendo" to keep the case on pause indefinitely.

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5th Circ. Says Enviro Groups Timely In Prairie-Chicken Fight

By Elaine Briseño

The Fifth Circuit on Friday allowed two environmental groups to join a lawsuit over the endangered designation of the lesser prairie-chicken, saying their second request to intervene was timely filed after the Trump administration made it clear it would stop defending the designation.

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Fuel Wholesaler Seeks Toss Of Station Operators' Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Pennsylvania-based fuel supplier asked a Michigan federal judge Friday to toss a case brought by a group of gas station operators in Wayne County, saying it has not violated their fuel supply agreement terms.

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RENEWABLES

Solar Contractor, CBRE Unit Blamed In $1B LA Building Fire

By Gina Kim

Lineage Inc., which owns a massive cold-storage facility in Los Angeles that caught fire in June, has sued a commercial solar operator and a CBRE Group subsidiary in California state court, blaming the incident on their negligence in reenergizing a defective rooftop solar array before critical safety checks were completed. 

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Tesla Investors Press Del. High Court To Keep Cases In State

By Jessica Corso

Tesla Inc. investors have asked the Delaware Supreme Court to keep in the state a trio of lawsuits accusing the carmaker and its CEO, Elon Musk, of breaching their fiduciary duty, after a Chancery Court judge ruled earlier this year that the cases belong in Texas.

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MINING

Commerce Failed To Flag Errors For Kazakhstani Metal Co.

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce must reconsider results of its countervailing duty investigation into a Kazakhstani metal manufacturer after the U.S. Court of International Trade found the government didn't give the company sufficient notice of mistakes in its submissions.

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PEOPLE

King & Wood Hires Debevoise Disputes Atty

By Joyce Hanson

King & Wood LLP has hired a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP disputes attorney to serve in an of counsel position at the firm's New York office, the lawyer has announced.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Attorneys Using AI May Have Ethical Duty To Redact Docs

The trajectory of legal ethics guidance in recent years strongly suggests that as redaction technology becomes more accessible, the failure to use it when uploading highly confidential materials into artificial intelligence tools will become increasingly difficult to defend as reasonable, say attorneys at Lewis Brisbois.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Big Biz Coalition Backs Litigation Funding Disclosure Rule

By Ryan Boysen

Big U.S. businesses and insurers like Amazon, Anthropic, Chubb and Walmart asked the federal judiciary on Monday to tighten disclosure requirements for litigation finance, claiming the lack of guardrails allows funders to operate "in the shadows."

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Indiana Atty Hit With $10K Sanction Over False Citations

By Andrea Keckley

An Indiana federal judge on Friday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to sanction a local attorney $10,000 after finding that five briefs in a consumer credit case included citations to nonexistent cases.

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Jackson Lewis Removes Ex-Atty's Bias Suit To Federal Court

By Patrick Hoff

Jackson Lewis PC has moved a former associate's suit accusing the firm of refusing to accommodate her temporary work restrictions following her medical leave to California federal court, saying state court wasn't the right venue for dispute.

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Bove Rejects Recusal Bid Tied To DOJ Whistleblower Claims

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove declined Monday to recuse himself in a Third Circuit immigration case, saying the attorneys for the petitioner are "recycling a failed pre-confirmation political smear" on him.

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State Farm Attorney Sanctioned $999.99 For AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney for State Farm who filed several motions citing nonexistent cases and fabricated quotes generated by AI software must pay a $999.99 sanction, a Los Angeles judge ruled, an amount one cent below the threshold that would have triggered a mandatory notice to the State Bar of California under state law.

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Brief

Ex-Moses & Singer Partner Gets 10 Months For Tax Crimes

By Craig Clough

A Connecticut federal judge Monday sentenced a former Moses & Singer LLP partner to 10 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay more than $3.1 million for failing to file personal income tax returns, the U.S. attorney's office announced.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over allegedly fabricated board approvals at a telecom infrastructure startup, insider trading and child safety at Roblox Corp. and ownership of artificial intelligence technology used in legal proceedings.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Altus Power Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Anthropic PBC

Atlas Energy LP

CBRE Group Inc.

Capital One Financial Corp.

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Circle K Stores Inc.

Clean Air Task Force Inc.

ClearList LLC

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

Earthjustice

Environmental Defense Fund Inc.

Experian PLC

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

George Washington University

Google LLC

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

International Legal Finance Association

Lawyers for Civil Justice

Lineage Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

London Court of International Arbitration

Microsoft Corp.

Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.

Natural Resources Defense Council

New York University

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Roblox Corp.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sierra Club

SolarWinds Corp.

State Bar of California

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Target Corp.

Tatneft

Tesla Inc.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Toyota Motor Corp.

Twitter Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

Walmart Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Baker McKenzie

Block & Leviton

Cummins & White

DLA Piper

Debevoise & Plimpton

Fox Rothschild

Grant & Eisenhofer

Hodgson Russ

Holland & Knight

Irvine & Conner

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Kelly Hart

Labaton Keller

Lanier Law Firm

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Moses & Singer

Munger Tolles

Musick Peeler

Paganelli Law Group

Prickett Jones

Quinn Emanuel

Richards Layton

Robinson & Cole

Saxena White

Schlam Stone

Squitieri & Fearon

Sullivan & Cromwell

Vinson & Elkins

deLeeuw Law

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Delaware General Assembly

Fish and Wildlife Service

International Chamber of Commerce

International Court of Justice

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

State of Michigan

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Interior

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

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

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana