Exxon Can't Escape $816M Verdict In Benzene Exposure Suit

By Lauren Berg

Exxon Mobil Corp. cannot escape a nearly $816 million judgment awarded to a service station mechanic who says his exposure to benzene in the oil giant's products was responsible for his leukemia, a Pennsylvania appellate court ruled Thursday.

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FERC Makes Further Moves To Speed Up Gas Project Reviews

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday issued a pair of proposals aimed at speeding up its approval of gas infrastructure projects by narrowing the scope of the agency's environmental reviews.

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2nd Circ. Doubts NY's Power To Regulate Nuclear Discharge

By Gautama Mehta

A Second Circuit panel appeared skeptical of a New York law banning a decommissioned nuclear power plant's waste from being discharged into the Hudson River, asking pointed questions on Thursday on why those discharges are not part of the plant's operations.

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Maduro Decries 'False Testimony,' Denies Torture Charges

By Pete Brush

Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife pled not guilty to torture and narcoterrorism charges Thursday, a week after Manhattan federal prosecutors accused the former Caracas power couple of a 25-year course of brutality against political rivals.

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Louisiana Asks Justices To Undo Stay In Coastal Damage Suit

By Ganesh Setty

Louisiana urged the U.S. Supreme Court to erase a Fifth Circuit stay of a remand order preventing one of its parishes from litigating coastal damage claims against an oil and gas company in state court, arguing the "comity essential to our federalism" was disrupted.

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Calif. Asks DC Judge To Void EPA's 'Unlawful' Waiver Moves

By Linda Chiem

California has asked a D.C. federal judge to void the Trump administration and congressional Republicans' "manifestly unlawful" use of the Congressional Review Act to make Clean Air Act waivers for the Golden State subject to rescission by lawmakers.

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Colo. Panel Upholds Agency's Emissions Monitoring Rule

By Rachel Konieczny

The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a state agency's rule on emissions monitoring Thursday, wholly rejecting a challenge by environmental groups that contended the rule allows most polluters to escape certain monitoring requirements by paying a fee.

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Naftogaz Hit With Dutch Setback Over $4.2B Russia Award

By Caroline Simson

A Dutch appeals court has ruled that a $4.2 billion arbitral award issued to Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company after Russia seized its Crimean assets "must be" partially set aside, according to documents filed in federal court Thursday.

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Ex-Yukos Shareholders Say Pause Unwarranted In $50B Case

By Joyce Hanson

Former Yukos Oil Co. shareholders are urging a D.C. federal court not to stay their lawsuit aimed at enforcing more than $50 billion in arbitral awards against Russia while the D.C. Circuit decides a parallel appeal, saying a pause now would significantly prejudice them.

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Trade Court Sustains Malaysian Wind Tower Duty Calculations

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce has now properly justified various decisions it made during a countervailing duty administrative review of a Malaysian utility wind tower producer, the U.S. Court of International Trade found, rejecting many of the company's objections as baseless.

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Troutman Adds Energy Pro In Texas From Gov't In-House Role

By Lynn LaRowe

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP has strengthened its energy regulatory practice with an Austin, Texas-based partner who came aboard from an in-house role at the Lower Colorado River Authority.

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Importer Risk Rises As AI Enters Trade Fraud Enforcement

The Trump administration's new data-driven and artificial intelligence-enabled push against tariff evasion raises the stakes for companies with global supply chains, making it crucial that they consider strengthening response protocols, documentation and internal reporting mechanisms, say attorneys at Cooley.

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Cyber Incident Halts Bankruptcy Court Noticing Nationwide

By Hilary Russ

The nationwide system for providing notice to creditors in bankruptcy cases has been disrupted by a cybersecurity incident, and it is not currently known when the outage will end.

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Missouri AG Alumni Make Their Mark In Trump 2.0

By Courtney Bublé

Missouri is hundreds of miles from Washington, D.C., but the legal community of the Show-Me State has taken a significant hold in the second Trump administration.

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Norton Rose Beats $100M Suit Over Withdrawn Patent App

By Celeste Bott

Norton Rose Fulbright has defeated a former client's malpractice suit over a missed patent fee payment, after an Illinois state judge ruled that the deadline to sue began before the firm allegedly acknowledged its mistake and dismissed the company's $100 million lawsuit against the firm with prejudice.

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Murdaugh Tells 4th Circ. To Revive Jury Tampering Civil Suit

By Cara Salvatore

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh asked the Fourth Circuit on Thursday to revive his suit accusing a court clerk of interfering in his murder trial, arguing he has standing because the alleged tampering "destroyed the value" of his $600,000 defense.

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Judge Who Called For Philly DA Probe Rejects Recusal Bid

By Matthew Santoni

A federal judge who called for an investigation of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office will not reconsider or recuse himself from the underlying habeas corpus case, calling DA Larry Krasner's bid to undo his rulings "frivolous" and "intemperate."

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Crowell Faces DQ Bid Over AI Tool At Heart Of Client's IP Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

DeviantArt urged a California federal judge Wednesday to disqualify Crowell & Moring LLP from representing Evox Productions in litigation alleging multiple AI companies used Evox's copyrighted car photos to train artificial-intelligence image generators, arguing the firm "unquestionably" represented DeviantArt and has "sued its own client on behalf of another client."

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Gov't Urges Justices To Reject Google, Intel Fight Over Fintiv

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Intel Corp. and Google LLC's challenge to a precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to be denied based on related litigation.

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Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Slams Feds' Skewed Facts

By Lauren Berg

A woman accused of trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told the Fourth Circuit that federal prosecutors have presented a "wildly inaccurate description" of a Maryland federal judge's sentencing decision, rejecting their argument that she got off too easy because of her gender identity.

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NYC Sanctuary Policies Survive Trump Admin. Lawsuit

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge on Thursday tossed the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging New York City policies that the administration alleged unconstitutionally obstruct federal immigration enforcement, saying federal law the administration leaned on does not preempt the sanctuary provisions.

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