The Trump administration's antipathy toward renewable energy is hitting a courtroom wall as federal judges repeatedly block policies aimed at stymieing wind and solar projects and ding agencies for not adequately justifying their actions.
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Trump Orders On Renewables Get A Judicial Reality Check

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration's antipathy toward renewable energy is hitting a courtroom wall as federal judges repeatedly block policies aimed at stymieing wind and solar projects and ding agencies for not adequately justifying their actions.

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Ohio Justices Say Electricity Reseller Is Still A Public Utility

By Ganesh Setty

A company that purchases electricity and then resells it to tenants still constitutes a public utility under Ohio law, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled, finding the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio therefore retains jurisdiction to regulate the company.

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Enovix Investors Denied Class Cert. Under Goldman Standard

By Emilie Ruscoe

A proposed class of investors in lithium battery manufacturer Enovix Corp. can't be certified, a California federal judge has determined, finding the suit doesn't show how declines in trading price cited in the complaint were caused by the sole remaining alleged misrepresentation in the matter.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

Mexican, Vietnamese And Thai Chassis Facing Possible Duties

By Jack McLoone

Imports of chassis from Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand could be hit with duty orders, stretching in some instances up to the triple digits, after the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday reached final determinations in associated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations.

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Brief

ITC Investigating Chinese Biopharma Chemicals Over Pricing

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission is looking into whether Chinese imports of two chemicals used in biopharma manufacturing that are allegedly being sold at unfair prices are harming U.S. domestic industry, it said in a notice published Thursday.

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UTILITIES AND POWER

Bosch And Other HVAC Leaders Accused Of Price-Fixing

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Bosch Inc. and six other leading heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment businesses are facing a proposed antitrust class action in Michigan federal court alleging they conspired to fix the prices of HVAC equipment.

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RENEWABLES

Solar Co. Again Seeks To Toss Colo. Hemp Growers' Suit

By Zach Dupont

A solar company claims that Colorado's economic loss rule bars a negligence claim from a pair of hemp growers that claim a broken irrigation line caused nearly $200 million in damages to their hemp farm, according to a motion to dismiss filed in Colorado federal court Thursday.

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MINING

Apache Group Amends Suit To Reverse Arizona Land Transfer

By Crystal Owens

An Apache nonprofit amended its challenge to the federal government and Resolution Copper Co. over the exchange of nearly 2,500 acres within Arizona's Tonto National Forest, arguing the land transfer, which contains a sacred Indigenous worship site, was rushed in violation of religious freedom and constitutional laws.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

GHG Endangerment Finding Repeal Brings New Legal Risks

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare anchored a matrix of regulation across multiple sectors — and the recent repeal of that finding has fundamentally destabilized the legal landscape governing industrial emissions, corporate liability and climate-related risk management, says Tanya Nesbitt at Thompson Hine.

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Series

Officiating Football Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Though they may seem to have little in common, officiating football has sharpened many of the same skills that define effective lawyering in management-side labor and employment: preparation, judgment, composure, credibility and ability to make difficult decisions in real time, says Josh Nadreau at Fisher Phillips.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

DLA Piper Clears Vote To End Verein, Unify Leadership

By Tracey Read

DLA Piper announced Friday that firm partners on both sides of the Atlantic have "overwhelmingly approved" a plan to dissolve its Swiss verein structure effective May 1.

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Judge Albright Reflects On 8 Years Shaping Patent Law

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright will be walking away from the Western District of Texas at the end of the summer, ready to head back into patent litigation work. He talked with Law360 on Friday about the rockier elements of his judgeship and lessons he'll take into private practice.

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Commerce Department's General Counsel Departs

By Christine DeRosa

The U.S. Department of Commerce's general counsel has left the agency after just over a year, the agency confirmed on Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In what may be a first, a federal judge has ordered BJ's Wholesale Club to put an investor's climate-related proxy proposal up for a vote of the shareholders at the company's annual meeting. And a new study shows that more in-house counsel are staying in place despite pay increases slowing amid less competition for talent.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Butler Prather LLP, Bowen Painter LLC and Cannella Snyder LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen a Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI

By Matt Perez

An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.

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Akin Can't 'Recast' Appeal As Good-Faith Effort, 9th Circ. Told

By Lauren Berg

A European winemaker slammed attempts by a U.S. importer and its Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to "recast a frivolous appeal as a good-faith effort," saying they should have to pay monetary sanctions for pursuing what the Ninth Circuit called a "self-indulgent" appeal of a valid arbitration award.

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Atty, Brother Say Father's Last Will Altered In Secret

By Emily Sawicki

A Blank Rome LLP attorney and his brother have sued the attorney who executed their father's will in New Jersey federal court, alleging the lawyer preyed on their ailing father toward the end of his life to alter his beneficiaries through undue influence, forgery and fraud.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AAON Inc.

American Electric Power Co. Inc.

American Lung Association

Apache Inc.

BGR Government Affairs LLC

BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.

Ballard Partners Inc.

Bang & Olufsen A/S

British Broadcasting Corp.

Burke Inc.

Carrier Global Corp.

CityFibre

Clean Air Task Force Inc.

Conservation Law Foundation Inc.

Credit Suisse Group AG

Daikin Industries

DoorDash Inc.

Douglas Elliman Realty LLC

Earthjustice

Enovix Corp.

Environmental Defense Fund Inc.

Fluor Corp.

Fordham University

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA

GKN PLC

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

Google LLC

Guardant Health Inc.

H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB

ITC Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

Legal & General America Inc.

LegalZoom.com Inc.

Lendlease Corp.

Lennox International Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

MasterCard Inc.

McKinsey & Co. Inc.

McKinstry Co.

Morgan Stanley

Natera Inc.

Nationwide Energy Partners

Natural Resources Defense Council

Public Citizen Inc.

Rheem Manufacturing Co.

Service Employees International Union

Sierra Club

Stanford University

Target Corp.

The AES Corp.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

TopBuild Corp.

Townsquare Media

Trane Inc.

Twitter Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Visa Europe

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Ammons Law Firm

Ashurst LLP

Blank Rome

Bowen Painter

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Brand Law Firm P.A.

Bristows LLP

Brown Rudnick

Bryan Cave

Burges Salmon

Butler Prather

Cahill Gordon

Candey Ltd.

Cannella Snyder

Consovoy McCarthy

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

Epstein Becker

Fisher & Phillips

Frank LLP

Gibson Dunn

Gibson PC

Gowling WLG

Hausfeld LLP

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

Holland & Knight

Howard Kennedy LLP

JMW Solicitors LLP

Jones Day

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kobre & Kim

Latham & Watkins

Martinez Reilly

McConaughy & Sarkissian

Morgan Lewis

Nagel Rice

Nossaman LLP

Ogletree Deakins

Osborne Clarke

Patterson Belknap

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Porter Wright

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reynolds Porter

Rolnick Kramer

Sanders Law Group

Shoosmiths LLP

Simmons & Simmons

Smith Square Partners LLP

Snell & Wilmer

Stephens Scown

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thompson Hine

UB Greensfelder

Vorys

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Colorado Supreme Court

European Union

Federal Trade Commission

Fish and Wildlife Service

International Trade Administration

International Trade Commission

Los Angeles Superior Court

New York State Comptroller

Ohio Attorney General's Office

Ohio Supreme Court

San Carlos Apache Nation

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United Nations

United States District Court for the District of Colorado