Justices Wary Of Moving Pipeline Suit To Federal Court

By Keith Goldberg

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared reluctant to overturn a ruling that kept Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's lawsuit seeking to shut down an Enbridge pipeline in state court, questioning why they should excuse the company for missing a federal removal deadline.

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11th Circ. Clears Path For CFPB's Clean-Energy Loan Rule

By Katryna Perera

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday allowed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new rule on clean-energy home improvement loans to take effect next week, rejecting a last-ditch attempt by a trade group to block the Biden-era measure's mortgage-style protections.

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Enbridge Opposes High Court Exam Of Mich. Immunity Claims

By Ganesh Setty

Enbridge Energy is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to examine the Michigan governor's sovereign immunity claims as it fights her decision to revoke a pipeline easement, arguing she has sought to "manufacture" a conflict in federal precedent.

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Interior Department Finalizes NEPA Rollback For Public Lands

By Nate Beck

The Interior Department said it has cleared the way for faster approval of large infrastructure projects by finalizing a rollback of nearly 50-year-old policies in the National Environmental Protection Act to reduce the scope of the law by more than 80%.

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Energy Group Of The Year: Latham

By Steven Lerner

Latham & Watkins LLP secured a major victory for Revolution Wind LLC against the Trump administration and represented Brookfield on its $5 billion strategic partnership with Bloom Energy, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

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Tech Giants Amazon, Google And Meta Ink Major AI Deals

By Al Barbarino

Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC have each unveiled plans to pour tens of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence infrastructure, as AI's computing and energy needs continue to drive Big Tech's spending strategies.

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Trump Says Countries Will Keep Deals Despite Tariff Ruling

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump said trade deals reached with countries underpinned by tariffs invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court would continue to be honored during his State of the Union on Tuesday evening, although it remained unclear precisely how those duty terms will be reimposed domestically.

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EU Plans Tougher Steel Import Limits By July

By Dylan Moroses

The three arms of the European Union's government met to discuss how to implement the bloc's steel antidumping measures by July 1, according to a press release Tuesday.

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Ex-Fla. Rep., Lobbyist Can't DQ Prosecutor In FARA Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge declined Tuesday to disqualify a federal prosecutor in the criminal case against a former Florida congressman and a lobbyist accused of failing to register as foreign agents for Venezuela after finding that the defense had failed to show a basis to disqualify him.

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No Automatic Duty Refund For Chemical Co., Fed. Circ. Says

By Jack McLoone

A Federal Circuit panel rejected a chemical manufacturer's argument that federal law required its claimed petroleum derivative duty refund entry to be automatically processed a year after it was filed, instead backing a Court of International Trade decision.

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Ex-Flying J Owner's 401(k) Offerings 'Inferior' Says Mass. Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

FJ Management Inc.'s retirement plan included a "dramatically inferior" series of target-date funds that caused investors to lose out on millions of dollars, a plan participant has claimed in a complaint filed in Massachusetts federal court.

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Trade Court Backs Gov't Block Of Aluminum Tariff Exclusions

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce properly rejected tariff exclusion requests made by electric cable manufacturer Prysmian for certain aluminum imports after President Donald Trump revoked that relief process, according to an opinion published by the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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DC Circ. Presses Gov't On Reason For $20B EPA Clawback

By Nadia Dreid

The full D.C. Circuit gave the federal government the third degree Tuesday as it tried to convince the court that it should stick with a panel's decision that the Environmental Protection Agency is allowed to freeze $20 billion in grant funds intended for green groups.

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Alaska Native Co. Hit With Suit Over 401(k) Fees, Funds

By Kellie Mejdrich

An Alaska Native company has been hit with a proposed class action from an employee 401(k) participant who alleged his plan was saddled with excessive fees and poorly performing investments, breaching fiduciary duties and causing prohibited transactions in violation of federal benefits law.

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Orrick Expands Seattle Team With Reed Smith Energy Expert

By Tracey Read

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Reed Smith LLP partner to its energy and infrastructure team in Seattle.

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How States Are Using Antitrust Principles In Climate Litigation

While recent climate-related cases brought by state attorneys general in Michigan, Nebraska and Texas take different ideological positions, they are united by their embrace of classical antitrust principles and the traditional consumer welfare standard — but these cases deploy this framework in new ways, says Gwendolyn Lindsay Cooley at Lindsay Cooley Law.

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AI-Generated Doc Ruling Guides Attys On Privilege Risks

A New York federal court's ruling, in U.S. v. Heppner, that documents created by a defendant using an artificial intelligence tool were not privileged, can serve as a guide to attorneys for retaining attorney-client or work-product privilege over client documents created with AI, say attorneys at Sher Tremonte.

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Tom Goldstein Guilty On Tax Evasion, 11 Other Counts

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder and famed U.S. Supreme Court advocate Thomas Goldstein was found guilty of tax evasion, as well as aiding in the filing of false tax returns and lying on loan applications, by a Maryland federal jury Wednesday. 

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Patterson Belknap Adds Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Maurene Comey

By Alison Knezevich

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who handled some of the nation's highest-profile cases before she was fired by the Trump administration, has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.

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Cat Cover Story In Ginsburg Health Hack Gives Judge Pause

By Hayley Fowler

A Fourth Circuit jurist on Wednesday seemed fixated on the feline excuse a former hospital transplant coordinator gave FBI agents when he was questioned in 2019 about accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records.

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Democrats Cast Doubt On New DOJ Fraud Role

By Courtney Bublé

During the confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President Donald Trump's nominee for the new assistant attorney general for fraud role, Democrats expressed anxiety about the White House's involvement in the fraud crackdown and how genuine the effort is.

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Dems Demand Explanation For DOJ Antitrust Chief's Exit

By Lauren Berg

Two Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Wednesday that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi explain to lawmakers why the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust chief was forced to resign, expressing concern about the administration's potential interference with merger reviews and antitrust litigation.

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Florida Co. Blames Holland & Hart For $21M Judgment

By Zach Dupont

A Florida-based company claimed in Colorado federal court Wednesday that a Holland & Hart LLP attorney was negligent in representing it in a lawsuit from the city of Fort Collins that eventually ended in a more than $21 million judgment against the company.

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'Do Not Lie To Me': Calif. Judge Panel Agrees Credibility Is Key

By Bonnie Eslinger

California federal judges speaking at a Federal Bar Association panel in San Francisco have urged attorneys to protect their credibility in the courtroom, with one judge bluntly telling lawyers "do not lie to me" and another revealing it's "shocking" how frequently judges share notes about lawyers.

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Justices Set New Limits On Recess Testimony Talks

By Cara Salvatore

A unanimous Supreme Court set limits Wednesday on the right to counsel during overnight breaks in a defendant's testimony under the Sixth Amendment, ruling that prohibiting talk about "testimony for its own sake" strikes an appropriate constitutional balance.

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Netflix Swaps Out Latham For Munger Tolles In Antitrust Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Latham & Watkins LLP withdrew Wednesday as defense counsel for Netflix in a proposed consumer class action in Illinois federal court claiming Meta cut an illegal deal ceding the video streaming market to Netflix, which is now represented by Munger Tolles & Olson LLP.

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Foley & Lardner Wants 'Scattershot' Malpractice Suit Tossed

By Rose Krebs

Foley & Lardner LLP is urging the Delaware Superior Court to toss a malpractice suit accusing the firm of negligence in representing an officer of a now-defunct food recycling company in a Chancery Court case that led to a $1.6 million judgment, saying it "suffers from basic pleading defects."

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