The Eleventh Circuit said a Georgia city's case against Honeywell International Inc. and The Georgia Power Co. over the alleged pollution of waterways and property does not belong in state court, siding with the companies in their effort to undo a lower court's decision to remand the dispute.
The Eleventh Circuit said a Georgia city's case against Honeywell International Inc. and The Georgia Power Co. over the alleged pollution of waterways and property does not belong in state court, siding with the companies in their effort to undo a lower court's decision to remand the dispute.
Los Angeles County fire authorities on Tuesday released an investigation report on the origins of the January 2025 Eaton Fire, finding that the devastating fire ignited after a "glowing material" fell from an electrical event on Southern California Edison transmission towers into a dry fuel bed.
A split D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from freezing $20 billion in clean-energy grant money Tuesday, overturning a divided circuit panel decision from September that vacated the injunction and would have allowed the administration to claw back the funding.
A Fifth Circuit panel appeared skeptical of a U.S. government attorney's assertion that an environmental advocacy group waited too long to enter a lawsuit to contest the Trump administration's decision to scrap an endangered species listing for the lesser prairie-chicken.
A federal jury in Brooklyn Tuesday saw a clandestinely recorded video of a former Goldman Sachs banker talking to an acquaintance about what prosecutors say were bribes paid to government officials in Ghana to greenlight a power plant deal, as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act trial enters the home stretch.
Mexico and Japan are looking to heighten their coordination on trade matters in fields including energy and technology, the two governments said after a meeting of officials.
The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed U.S. businesses have been harmed by imported silicon metals arriving from Norway and Australia that are being sold at unfair prices, setting up duties orders from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
More than a dozen Indigenous nations, federal Indian law professors and tribal organizations are backing Boulder County, Colorado, in the Supreme Court, telling the justices that climate change has already caused roughly $8 billion in disruptions across Indian Country, yet the federal government provides only $400 million to mitigate them.
The Williams Cos. Inc. has agreed to acquire Momentum Midstream from private equity-backed EnCap Flatrock Midstream in a transaction valued at up to $5.5 billion, with three firms advising.
Thermo Fisher unlawfully refused a Christian employee's request to add a fossil fuel-free investment option to its 401(k) plan because of his religious and moral beliefs in stewardship of the Earth, according to a suit filed Tuesday in a New York federal court.
The federal government and Enbridge Energy are looking to dismiss a challenge to a permit that allows 41 miles of pipeline to be rerouted around a Wisconsin tribe's lands, arguing that any attempts to find flaws in an environmental analysis for the plan are hasty and lack merit.
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a Florida federal jury's conclusion that a battery charger company infringed a competitor's trademarks with Amazon advertisements and other communications and upheld a $12.1 million disgorgement order — although it ordered a new trial on a separate $1.3 million damages award.
McGuireWoods LLP has hired an energy attorney who focuses his practice on negotiating complex agreements with federal regulators and other stakeholders, who joins the firm in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Tuesday.
Foley & Lardner LLP has hired Foley Hoag LLP's former Washington office partner-in-charge, who started her career at that firm as an associate almost 16 years ago, Foley & Lardner announced Tuesday.
While the future of California's vehicle emissions standards under the Clean Air Act is uncertain, the state's recent settlement with Volvo over diesel emissions hinges on the truthfulness of manufacturer representations to state regulators, and offers important lessons for companies on compliance and recordkeeping, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.
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Insurance litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" about taking private equity investment via a managed service organization.
Florida's Attorney General said Monday he is asking Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into U.S. Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu because of work she did before ascending to the Eleventh Circuit bench for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Rabicoff Law and Ramey LLP have maintained their roles as top patent suit filers, while Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LP have remained leaders on defense teams, according to Lex Machina's annual patent litigation report.
During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.
In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.
The founder of Patriot National Inc. was likely short millions of dollars when it finalized a private investment in public equity transaction at the center of his malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, according to defense testimony on Tuesday at a Florida state trial.
Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited historically Black colleges and universities.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.
Ford Motor Co. has asked the Ninth Circuit to revive its racketeering lawsuit accusing three attorneys affiliated with Knight Law Group LLP of orchestrating a massive fraudulent billing scheme, saying First Amendment protections don't immunize the attorneys' underlying conduct in California lemon law litigation against the automaker.
A Connecticut state court judge allowed Day Pitney LLP to withdraw from a $1.3 million corporate windup feud after the involvement of one of its partners, a former chief justice on the state Supreme Court, came to light, negating the defendants' call for an evidentiary hearing on a motion to disqualify the firm.
A proposed class action data security suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP was voluntarily dismissed on Thursday following a joint motion to stay the case in April to undergo mediation.
Ashurst Perkins Coie won't have to turn over documents related to its predecessor firm's work for an Omani screw and nail manufacturer in international trade proceedings that are now the subject of a legal malpractice case, a Washington court has ruled, while also denying a discovery request from the firm.
More patent suits were filed in 2025 than in any year in the past decade, according to a new report, an increase attorneys said is likely tied to new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies that have made it harder to challenge patents.
Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has informed the president he will take semi-retired status at a date later in the future.
An attorney with the Bronx Defenders felt she had no other choice but to cross the picket line on Tuesday after an immigration judge ordered her to appear in court and the organization's managers did not commit to covering the proceedings without her, a union representative has told Law360.
