Fla. Judge Denies Bid To Toss 'Nuisance' Power Plant Suit

By David Minsky

A Florida judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit Thursday brought by dozens of residents who allege a nearby power plant is causing a nuisance to their neighborhood, claiming the facility is severely disrupting their daily lives and diminishing property values. 

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Perenco Beats HMRC's Challenge Of £39M In Tax Allowances

By Josh White

British oil company Perenco is entitled to tax allowances of £39 million ($52.5 million) on the purchase of BP oilfields even though it agreed to sell part of the sites to Premier Oil days later, a London tribunal ruled, rejecting a challenge by HM Revenue & Customs.

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Enbridge Loses 7th Circ. Wis. Trespass Row, Gets $5.2M Redo

By Crystal Owens

The Seventh Circuit upheld a decision holding that Enbridge Energy is trespassing on Wisconsin tribal lands, but vacated and remanded a $5.2 million restitution order and timeline for a portion of the Line 5 pipeline's removal, saying the company needs a "reasonable opportunity" to complete the proposed reroute.

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Trade Court OKs Pipe Fitting Duty Scope After 2 Remands

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce properly concluded that certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings were in scope of antidumping duties after the U.S. Court of International Trade remanded issues with contrary results twice, according to an opinion sustaining the government's latest redetermination.

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Trade Court Rejects Chinese Carbon Duty Surrogate Choice

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce used flawed reasoning to select Malaysia over Romania as the surrogate market for determining the value of certain carbon used for filtration from China during an antidumping duty review, the U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled, ordering a redo.

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Colo. Energy Firms Sue Over $79.5M Surface Use Dispute

By MJ Koo

Three Colorado energy and real estate companies have sued a Chevron subsidiary in Colorado state court over allegations that it repeatedly drilled oil and gas wells in a Greeley-area acquisition zone without using surface locations they were contractually entitled to provide or paying required compensation, seeking damages exceeding $79.5 million.

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Cuban Entities Sued For Trafficking In Seized Assets

By Tom Lotshaw

A Florida company hit Cuba's state-owned electric utility, Unión Eléctrica, with a lawsuit Wednesday in D.C. federal court seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for power generation and transmission infrastructure and other assets confiscated decades ago by the Cuban government.

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Resolution Copper Creates $54M Trust For Ariz., NM Tribes

By Crystal Owens

Resolution Copper Co. said it established a $54 million trust that will provide annual funding to 11 Indigenous nations that have cultural and ancestral ties to a sacred Arizona worship site that's facing destruction to make way for a multibillion-dollar mining operation.

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Teaching SEC Investigations Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Instructing a law school course on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigations has made me a more thoughtful, deliberate practitioner because it requires me to continually reassess and challenge what I know about securities law enforcement, how I know it and how best to explain it, says David Chase at Miami Law.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Andrea Keckley

Two Texas personal injury firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work securing a $604 million verdict against a freight broker and logistics company for their roles in a deadly 2021 highway collision.

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Goldstein Launches Appeal Of Tax, Mortgage Fraud Case

By Jared Foretek

Imprisoned SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein is formally launching a Fourth Circuit appeal challenging his 12 convictions for tax and mortgage fraud, as well as his six-year prison sentence and the $3.1 million restitution judgment against him, according to a new filing from his attorneys.

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Judges Rip DHS GC's 'Worst' Posts As Intimidation Campaign

By Jake Maher

Sitting federal judges on Friday blasted the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "painting a target" on judges' backs in a recent series of social media posts attacking judges who ruled against the Trump administration in immigration cases and called on him to take them down.

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NY Public Defense Org. Denies Union's ULP Claims

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem's leadership on Friday denied allegations from the union representing its more than 100 employees that it has offered unlawful incentives to break its ongoing strike.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen George Michael's estate bring an intellectual property claim against the late star's friend over footage shared online, collapsed law firm Axiom Ince sue the U.K. branch of State Bank of India and Ryanair face a group claim from 262 people. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Hub Hires: Pierson Ferdinand, Biogen, FisherBroyles

By Chris Villani

While not as sizzling as the temperatures or the Red Sox, the Boston legal market remained hot through the month of July, with Hogan Lovells Cadwalader adding a mergers and acquisitions partner, Pierson Ferdinand snagging a veteran litigator and Foley & Lardner hiring a finance attorney.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

There has been a wave of cases alleging employers and their insurance brokers violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and experts say this marks an increasing litigation trend. In the meantime, the American Bar Association is eyeing the elimination of the first of multiple diversity-related law school standards. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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