Justices Will Resolve Circuit Split Over Pipeline Payouts

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a circuit court split over how to determine what gas infrastructure project developers should pay landowners in eminent domain proceedings, a move encouraged by the Trump administration.

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US Pays Duke Energy $129M To Drop NC Offshore Wind Lease

By Hayley Fowler

Duke Energy Corp. has agreed to give up an offshore wind project off the coast of North Carolina in exchange for a $129 million payment by the Trump administration, according to an announcement Monday by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Volatility May Follow As Justices Make Agency Firings Easier​​​​​​​

By Sarah Jarvis

The policies and enforcement priorities of federal agencies may fluctuate more rapidly based on who is president, as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's Monday decision finding that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies, experts told Law360.

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Justices Decline Spain, Russia Sovereign Immunity Cases

By Caroline Simson

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opted to pass on reviewing two cases relating to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's arbitration exception, a decision that clears a path for creditors looking to enforce arbitral awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars against Spain and Russia.

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Va. Has Nation's First Electricity Tax On Data Centers

By Maria Koklanaris

Virginia, the state with the country's largest number of data centers, enacted a budget Monday that includes a first-in-the-nation electricity tax on the centers.

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3rd Circ. Preview: DuPont Pensions, Detainees' Court Access

By Carla Baranauckas

An appeal testing the limits of ERISA fiduciary liability goes before the Third Circuit in July when DuPont and Corteva seek to overturn a district court ruling that a corporate spinoff damaged employees' retirement benefits. The court will also hear argument on whether heavy equipment giant Caterpillar forced a competitor out of business by pressuring a vendor. Here are some highlights from the court's July calendar.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving controlling stockholders, executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands and board governance, while the Delaware Supreme Court issued decisions in two corporate records cases previously decided in the Chancery.

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German Steel Antidumping Duty Misses Mark Again, CIT Finds

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce must further justify various aspects of its latest analysis reaching a new antidumping margin for a German exporter of steel forged fluid end blocks, according to an opinion published Monday by the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Australian, Norwegian Silicon Metal Face Final Duty Rates

By Jack McLoone

Australian and Norwegian silicon metal imported into the U.S. could be hit with countervailing and antidumping duties following U.S. Department of Commerce final determinations Monday.

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Lawyers, Funder In Hot Seat Over Nixed $15B Malaysia Award

By Caroline Simson

Units of Malaysia's state-owned energy company have initiated litigation in New York seeking permission to subpoena former employees of Therium in support of ongoing litigation in Jersey against the third-party funder and lawyers who helped to secure a since-vacated $14.9 billion arbitral award against Kuala Lumpur.

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3 Firms Build $752M Sale Of Cardinal Natural Gas Businesses

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP-led independent midstream energy company Cardinal Midstream Partners LLC on Monday revealed that it has agreed to sell its Cardinal Delaware Basin LLC and Cardinal New Mexico LLC to San Mateo Midstream LLC, led by Baker Botts LLP and O'Melveny & Myers LLP, in a $752 million deal.

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Former FirstEnergy CEO Escapes SEC Fraud Suit

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against the former CEO of FirstEnergy Corp. has been thrown out by an Ohio federal judge who said the agency's securities fraud claims attempt to "enforce a disclosure regime where none presently exists."

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Ore. Top Court Takes PacifiCorp Case As Judge Won't Recuse

By Cara Salvatore

The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a decision overturning PacifiCorp's classwide liability for wildfire damages affecting about 2,000 property owners, days after an appeals judge who did work for the utility in private practice declined to recuse herself.

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Colo. Justices Say Dad Missed Deadline In Fatal Crossing Suit

By MJ Koo

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that a father cannot proceed with his lawsuit against a city and utility over his daughter's death after being struck by a car, finding that the one-year deadline to bring survival claims applies even when no legal representative was appointed before the victim's death.

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Spain To Cut Tax On Electricity Producers

By Kevin Pinner

The Spanish government has decided to cut its 7% tax on electricity producers starting this year, reaching a 0% rate in 2028 as costs for the country's electricity system become less expensive, the country's cabinet said Monday. 

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Greenberg Traurig Hires Nuclear Commission Veteran In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission leader, who spent 18 years there, most recently as deputy assistant general counsel for materials, fuel cycle and waste programs, the firm announced Monday.

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A Framework For Volume Dispute Damages In Oil, Gas M&A

With every major upstream oil and gas consolidation in recent years having resulted in minimum volume commitment disputes, experts testifying in such litigation must use a five-step framework for calculating lost profits that accounts for the option structure embedded in the contract, says Robert Foss at Hinds Feat Advisors.

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8 Ways 2026's Market Divide Is Rewriting Real Estate Risk

As construction activity increasingly concentrates in data centers, healthcare and other resilient sectors, real estate developers and their counsel in the second half of 2026 should consider earlier risk allocation and more protective contract terms, and expect greater pressure on labor, pricing and infrastructure, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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Ill. Law Firm MSO Bill Clashes With Court Power, Ethics Rules

An Illinois bill prohibiting law firms from certain business arrangements with management service organizations, sent to the governor for signature last week, encroaches upon the courts' constitutional powers and goes beyond the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct in regulating investment in law-related services, says Matthew O’Hara at Smith Gambrell.

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Trump Nominates Just Confirmed La. Judge For 5th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Anna St. John has been on the federal bench for less than four months, and now she's being elevated to a higher court.

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High Court Scraps Caps On Coordinated Campaign Spending

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on political party spending in coordination with individual candidates, agreeing with a Republican-led challenge that the caps violate the First Amendment.

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Gordon Rees Adds 8 Partners In Northern California

By Tracey Read

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has expanded its offices in Northern California with eight new partners who have expertise in multiple practice areas, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.

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NY State Bar Wants New Bar Exam Rules For Emergencies

By Kevin Penton

Following two recent incidents that drew scrutiny over their handling, the New York State Bar Association is calling for new standardized protocols to be followed should emergencies occur during the administration of the bar exam.

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NC City Beats Ex-Paralegal's Besmirched Reputation Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina city's characterization of how a fired paralegal allegedly misused city resources is not enough to sustain her suit accusing the city of trampling on her reputation and using her as a scapegoat for her boss's misdeeds, a federal judge said in throwing out the case.

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Uber, FedEx Slam Pa. Law Firm Counterclaims In RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC and its founder have failed to support a counterclaim in Pennsylvania federal court saying Uber Technologies Inc. and FedEx Corp. filed a sham litigation and abused the legal process with their ongoing RICO complaint against the firm, the companies argued Monday.

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Buchalter Real Estate Partner Joins Holland & Knight In LA

By Adrian Cruz

Holland & Knight LLP announced that an experienced real estate finance attorney who most recently practiced at Buchalter PC has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner.

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Office Snapshot: Hogan Lovells Set To Reclaim Turf In Boston

By Chris Villani

Amid Hogan Lovells' rapid growth in multiple practice areas and ahead of its merger with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, the firm has expanded its downtown Boston office to include space for more than a dozen additional attorneys.

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NJ Assembly Passes Litigation Funding Disclosure Bill

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin after similar pending legislation in the state Senate received pushback from trial lawyers and litigation finance representatives.

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McCarter Atty Says He Didn't Know NY Law Before $20M Deals

By Brian Steele

A onetime McCarter & English LLP partner in Hartford testified Tuesday that he did not research New York's municipal contracting laws before helping two insurers enter into doomed $20 million loan repayment agreements with a Long Island town, but contended that he was under no obligation to do so.

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