The Texas Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal from Exxon Mobil Corp. seeking to force an AIG unit to pay $25 million of a $35 million settlement arising from a deadly 2013 explosion at Exxon's refinery in Beaumont.
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Texas Justices Take Up Exxon's $25M AIG Coverage Fight

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal from Exxon Mobil Corp. seeking to force an AIG unit to pay $25 million of a $35 million settlement arising from a deadly 2013 explosion at Exxon's refinery in Beaumont.

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Split DC Circ. Backs Venezuela's $108M Arbitration Order

By Caroline Simson

A divided D.C. Circuit panel affirmed Friday that Venezuela must pay a more than $100 million arbitral award to a Barbadian oil field investor, in an opinion that spends more than five pages rejecting points that U.S. Circuit Judge Justin R. Walker made in an even lengthier dissent.

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Feds Award $75.5M Navajo-Gallup Pipeline Contract

By Elaine Briseño

The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded Flatland Energy Services LLC a $75.5 million contract to construct a water pipeline as part of an infrastructure project that will provide reliable water supply to parts of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

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OIL AND GAS

Wis. Tribe Seeks Quick Win In Pipeline Relocation Dispute

By Joyce Hanson

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has asked a D.C. federal judge to vacate a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit letting an energy company reroute 41 miles of a crude oil pipeline around the tribe's reservation.

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UTILITIES AND POWER

Brief

Call Center Worker, Energy Co. End Preshift OT Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A call center worker and an Ohio energy company agreed to end a proposed collective action alleging employees were denied overtime wages for preshift computer login work, according to an order signed by an Ohio federal judge.

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RENEWABLES

Brief

Feds Drop Appeal To Preserve Trump Wind Permit Freeze

By Julie Manganis

The federal government has dropped its appeal of a Massachusetts federal judge's order last year blocking the Trump administration from freezing wind energy project permits, according to a filing with the First Circuit.

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PEOPLE

McGuireWoods Lands Energy Pro In Houston From O'Melveny

By Lynn LaRowe

McGuireWoods LLP has added a former O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner in Houston who brings more than a decade of experience advising oil and gas companies, investors and lenders in energy and infrastructure deals.

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Brief

Akin Recruits Corporate Pro In Dallas From Katten

By Tracey Read

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has expanded its corporate practice with a former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorney in Dallas.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

3 Things To Know About Trump's Pick To Lead SDNY

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to appoint Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner James M. McDonald to lead the Southern District of New York. Here are three things to know about him.

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Trump Personal Atty In Carroll Cases Confirmed To 8th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 48-43 on Monday evening to confirm Justin Smith, who represented the president in the defamation and sexual abuse cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

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Hagens Berman Must Cover Fees After Misconduct Findings

By Adrian Cruz

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP must cover the fees and costs of a special master who alleged the firm committed misconduct in product liability litigation over the morning sickness drug thalidomide, a Pennsylvania federal judge has said.

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Analysis

Newman's Appeal Loss Shows Limits On Suspension Reviews

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection on Monday of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's appeal in the long-running dispute over her suspension made clear that the available routes to challenge such orders are narrow, and spurred critics to contemplate ways to revise the system.

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Justices Turn Down Judge Newman's Suspension Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's effort to revive her lawsuit against her colleagues for suspending her, leaving intact a D.C. Circuit decision that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.

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Attys Want Up To $33M In Long-Running UBH Benefits Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

Attorneys for employee benefit plan participants who sued to change how United Behavioral Health processed claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment asked a California federal court for up to $33 million in fees and expenses for their work on the "groundbreaking" case.

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Ex-SEC Atty Reprimanded Over Misstatements In Crypto Case

By Julie Manganis

A former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney has received a public reprimand for misleading a judge in a cryptocurrency fraud case that led to sanctions against the agency.

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Barnes & Thornburg Profit-Share Admin Wants Legal Bills Paid

By James Boyle

A company that oversaw recordkeeping duties of Barnes & Thornburg LLP's profit-sharing plan says in a complaint in Pennsylvania state court it is owed legal fees over a previous suit filed by a former firm partner.

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FBI Misplaced Nadine Menendez's Jewelry, Judge Told

By Parker Quinlan

An attorney for Nadine Menendez on Monday told a Manhattan federal judge that the FBI is still unable to locate pieces of her jewelry seized as part of the investigation that led to Menendez and her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, being convicted of participating in a bribery scheme.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving shareholder voting rights, take-private transactions, merger disclosures, board control battles and investor litigation, while the Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments over the wind-down of an oil-and-gas investment fund.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin's

American International Group Inc.

Apollo Global Management LLC

Authentic Brands Group LLC

B. Riley Financial Inc.

Boston College

Cloudflare Inc.

Dominion Energy Inc.

Earthjustice

Elliott Investment Management LP

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

Ennis Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

GSK PLC

Guess Inc.

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Herzog

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lexington Insurance Co.

Line 5 LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

Morgan Stanley

National Holdings Corp.

New Civil Liberties Alliance

Otis Worldwide Corp.

SPAR Group, Inc.

Sanofi

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

TopBuild Corp.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

University of Virginia

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Arnold & Porter

Barnes & Thornburg

Beck Redden

Beveridge & Diamond

Carroll Gilbert

Cooley LLP

Cozen O'Connor

Croke Fairchild

Crowell & Moring

Curtis Mallet-Prevost

Demeo LLP

Friedmann Firm

Gray Reed

Hagens Berman

Hunton Andrews

K&L Gates

Katten Muchin

Kirkland & Ellis

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Mike Scott Law

Miller Scamardi

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

O'Melveny & Myers

Ogletree Deakins

Orgain Bell

Orrick Herrington

Psych-Appeal Inc

Reed Smith

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Steptoe LLP

Stris & Maher

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thompson Hine

Willkie Farr

Wright Close Barger & Guzman

Zuckerman Spaeder

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe

Bureau of Reclamation

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Internal Revenue Service

Jicarilla Apache Nation

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers

Missouri Department of Agriculture

Navajo Nation

New York State Assembly

Permanent Court of Arbitration

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

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

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Washington Attorney General's Office