Alito Recuses From Chevron, Exxon Coastal Pollution Case

By Keith Goldberg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday recused himself from considering Chevron and ExxonMobil's effort to place Louisiana pollution lawsuits stemming from the companies' World War II-era production in federal court, just days before the justices hear oral arguments in the case.

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States Fight To Block EPA From Wiping Out $7B Solar Funding

By Dorothy Atkins

A coalition of states urged a Washington federal district judge Thursday to preliminarily block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from cutting solar power grant programs, arguing that without an injunction the Trump administration could transfer $7 billion back to the Treasury and "we will be entirely out of luck."

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Texas Court Mostly Reverses $27M Exxon Explosion Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A Texas appellate court on Thursday largely vacated a $27 million jury verdict against ExxonMobil related to a 2019 explosion at a Houston-area petrochemical plant, citing insufficient evidence to support the damages awarded to three injured workers.

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EPA's Water Rule Dispute Paused Amid Legal Uncertainty

By Crystal Owens

A North Dakota federal judge is holding in abeyance seven states' challenge to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rule revision that considers tribal rights in addressing water quality standards until the agency determines if it wants to defend the final law or start a new rulemaking process.

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Trump Admin Says Climate Grant Class Suit Is Moot

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration has told the D.C. Circuit that a proposed class action accusing it of illegally terminating a $3 billion environmental justice block grant program is moot because Congress has rescinded the funds that green groups and local governments are seeking to recover.

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Venezuela Says Citgo Auction Marred By Conflicts

By Caroline Simson

Venezuela pressed the Third Circuit Thursday to overturn an order greenlighting the nearly $6 billion sale of Citgo to satisfy billions of dollars of the country's debt, arguing that the underlying attachment orders are void and that the proceeding was marred by "obvious" conflicts of interest.

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Pipeline Co., Contractor Pull Plug On Fuel Terminal Fight

By Kelcey Caulder

A pipeline company and a contractor it hired to build a $22.4 million fuel terminal have agreed to end the company's suit alleging it was owed at least $600,000 because of missed deadlines and shoddy workmanship, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

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Odebrecht To Pay Investors $17.3M To End Bribe-Scheme Suit

By Katryna Perera

An investment firm and its affiliated trusts will receive over $17 million from Brazilian engineering conglomerate Odebrecht SA and two subsidiaries to resolve, before a scheduled trial this month, a suit over an alleged far-reaching bribery scheme, with a New York federal judge ordering final judgment in the suit Thursday.

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11th Circ. Asked To Undo 'Deeply Flawed' Securities Ruling

By Emilie Ruscoe

Florida-based energy company NextEra Energy Inc. wants the full Eleventh Circuit to reconsider a panel decision to revive an investor lawsuit against the utility operator, asserting that unless undone, the decision would leave the circuit with "the nation's most permissive loss-causation standard."

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NY Judge Backs Windfarm Award Against Vietnam Bank

By Joyce Hanson

A New York federal judge has granted an arbitral award petition favoring a Chinese company against a Vietnamese bank following a dispute over a crane lease for a windfarm project, rejecting arguments that the court lacked jurisdiction and the dispute belonged elsewhere.

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Judge Says He'll Approve Ideanomics Plan After Revisions

By Rick Archer

A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Thursday that he will approve the Chapter 11 liquidation plan for electric vehicle technology company Ideanomics Inc. once an injunction barring future claims in the plan is narrowed in scope.

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Stoel Rives Picks Up Former K&L Gates Environmental Leader

By Ben Adlin

Environmental lawyer Ankur Tohan has joined Stoel Rives LLP as a partner in the Seattle office, where he'll focus on renewable energy, carbon capture, power infrastructure and compliance matters, the firm announced Thursday.

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Series

Muay Thai Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Muay Thai kickboxing has taught me that in order to win, one must stick to one's game plan and adapt under pressure, just as when facing challenges by opposing counsel or judges, says Mark Schork at Feldman Shepherd.

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Goldberg Segalla Fights Ex-IP Co-Chair's $4M Arbitration Bid

By Theresa Schliep

An arbitration fight Goldberg Segalla LLP initiated against a former co-chair of its intellectual property group over proceeds from transferred cases spilled into New York state court, where the firm is seeking relief from his counterclaims that it shorted him nearly $4 million in compensation.

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen a collapsed investment firm revive a $15 million dispute with a hedge fund, major Hollywood studios bring an IP claim against the U.K.'s largest internet providers over illegal streaming, and the Department of Health and Social Care sue the law firm and barrister representing it in a pharma competition damages case.

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Jones Day To Help Restore David Bowie's Old London Home

By Jamie Lennox

Jones Day's charitable foundation will help to restore the childhood home of musical icon David Bowie before it opens to the public in late 2027, the historical trust leading the project said Friday.

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Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'

By Tracey Read

The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.

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Bruce Fein Unauthorized To Represent Maduro, Atty Says

By Rachel Rippetoe

When constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein entered an appearance as counsel for former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, it was without having ever spoken to the client, according to a Thursday filing by Maduro's attorney Barry Pollack seeking to remove Fein from the case.

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Calif. Wage Suit Settles Months After Atty Admits To AI Mishap

By Emily Sawicki

A proposed wage and hour class action that drew the legal world's attention in November after the plaintiff's counsel admitted to using a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a botched motion has now ended, with a Northern California federal judge granting a joint dismissal following a settlement agreement.

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NJ Justices Nix Atty Registration Fee Hike After Bar Pushback

By Rose Krebs

The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected a request to raise the annual registration fee for attorneys after the state's bar association complained that a proposed $27 hike for certain attorneys, following prior year increases, was too much at a time when they and their firms face "significantly increasing operational costs."

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New Trade Group Joins Litigation Finance Lobbying Fight

By Ryan Boysen

A new trade group for litigation funders has launched with the aim of enlisting personal injury and mass tort attorneys in a fight against proposed federal laws that it says could threaten the $16 billion litigation finance industry.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In technology, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by legal departments will be a major concern for general counsel seeking to control costs in the New Year. And in labor matters, the National Labor Relations Board has a new general counsel along with a quorum and is ready to start deciding cases again.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.

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Biz Owner's RICO Suit Says 5 Calif. Attys Helped Loot IT Co.

By Daniel Connolly

A business owner has filed a lawsuit this week accusing five attorneys from five different small California law firms of conspiring with his ex-business partner to steal assets from a company the two had jointly owned.

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Ramey Ducks Blackberry's Sanctions Bid Over 'Frivolous' Suit

By Elliot Weld

Patent attorney Bill Ramey has avoided sanctions requested by BlackBerry Corp. for what the smartphone company called the "frivolous and unreasonable" way he litigated a case brought on behalf of Silent Communications LLC.

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