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September 29, 2025
Trump Admin Opens Lands, Wallets To Boost US Coal
The Trump administration on Monday announced a suite of actions to help boost the U.S. coal industry, including opening up more federal lands to coal leasing and providing compliance relief and federal funding for coal-fired power plants.
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September 29, 2025
Billionaire On The Hook For $9M In Failed Australia Claim
Australia on Saturday claimed victory in a $198 billion investor-state claim over a nixed iron ore project asserted by Australian mining magnate and billionaire Clive Palmer, who immediately vowed to challenge the award in Switzerland.
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September 29, 2025
Duane Morris, DLA Piper Steer $1.2B Hadron SPAC Deal
Duane Morris LLP-advised nuclear energy company Hadron Energy on Monday announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company GigCapital7 Corp., led by DLA Piper, in a deal that values the company at $1.2 billion.
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September 26, 2025
Exxon Beats BP's Defense Claims In Brooklyn Oil Spill Row
Exxon Mobil Corp. wasn't required to defend BP Products North America against lawsuits resulting from a Brooklyn oil spill nearly 50 years ago — or pay its multimillion-dollar legal tab — the Second Circuit ruled Friday, saying that an Illinois "complete defense" rule applicable to insurers doesn't cover indemnification deals between non-insurers.
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September 26, 2025
Slovakia Seeks €1.83M Default Penalty From Texas Energy Co.
Slovakia urged a Texas federal court Friday to issue a default judgment of €1.83 million ($2.14 million) against a U.S. energy company that had at one point sought $2.1 billion from the country in arbitration over failed development plans.
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September 26, 2025
DC Circ. Examines FERC's Revised Grid Hookup Policy
The D.C. Circuit is set to decide whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made a mistake when overhauling its policy for hooking up new power projects to the grid, after spending the entire morning and part of the afternoon Friday going over the penalty framework.
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September 26, 2025
Calif. Power Market Law Is A Clean Energy Game-Changer
California's recent passage of a law further expanding its electricity markets beyond its borders could catalyze clean energy project development in the Golden State, as well as other states throughout the West.
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September 26, 2025
Tribunal Bars Niger From Selling Uranium Amid Orano Dispute
An international tribunal has ordered Niger not to sell uranium produced by the mining company SomaĂŻr after it was seized by the government earlier this year, part of an ongoing arbitration initiated by French nuclear fuel cycle company Orano at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
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September 26, 2025
Hong Kong Judge Rules $109M Fraud Dispute Stays In Court
A Hong Kong judge refused Friday to send a dispute over ownership of a lucrative copper-lead-zinc mine in the Republic of Congo and an alleged $109 million fraudulent transfer to arbitration, rejecting claims asserted by a Chinese state-owned entity that the matter fell under an arbitration clause.
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September 26, 2025
Dr. Evil Gets Brief Callout In Del. Take-Public Merger Suit
Attorneys for a blank-check company that claimed at least $30 million in damages in Delaware's Court of Chancery after an alleged take-public merger breach on Friday branded the accused breacher's $2.1 billion counterclaim as being "worthy of Dr. Evil in the 'Austin Powers' movies."
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September 26, 2025
Chemical Plant Spat Must Unfold In NY, NC Court Is Told
A Swiss chemical technology company urged a North Carolina state judge Friday to toss a suit alleging that it bungled work on a $200 million plant, arguing during a hearing that it is not a construction company as defined in a state law undergirding where the claims can be litigated.
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September 26, 2025
Feds Say They Have Standing To Block Hawaii Climate Suit
The federal government is urging a Hawaii federal court not to dismiss its suit aiming to block the state's climate change suit against energy companies, saying it has standing because the state's action would usurp its authority to regulate pollution.
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September 26, 2025
Judge Won't Halt EPA's $3B Climate Grant Cuts During Appeal
A Washington, D.C., federal judge denied conservation groups' and local governments' effort to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from ending a $3 billion climate grant program while they appeal the dismissal of their lawsuit.
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September 26, 2025
High Court Pauses Distribution Of $4B Foreign Aid
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can hold onto $4 billion in frozen foreign aid funding while Congress considers a proposal to cut it, pausing a lower court order that required the federal government to spend the money before the end of the month.
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September 26, 2025
'American Exceptionalism' SPAC Leads 2 IPOs Totaling $550M
Two special purpose acquisition companies made their public debuts Friday after pricing initial public offerings at a combined $550 million, with plans to merge with companies in the artificial intelligence, digital assets, fintech, defense and decentralized finance sectors, among others.
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September 26, 2025
Jones Day Hires NY Public Finance Attorney From Orrick
Jones Day announced that its New York office has gained a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lawyer who advises issuers, underwriters and lenders on public finance and real assets transactions.
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September 26, 2025
Calif. Fights Biz Groups' Bid To Halt Climate Disclosure Rules
California asked the Ninth Circuit to reject business groups' effort to halt two new state climate regulations requiring large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.
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September 26, 2025
Judge Won't Overturn $57M Midwest Energy Win In IP Fight
A Delaware federal magistrate judge has refused to disturb a jury's finding that numerous affiliated companies willfully infringed Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. patents on technology for refining coal to reduce mercury in emissions from power plants, leaving in place a $57 million verdict.
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September 26, 2025
Ex-Perkins Coie, DOJ Enviro Lawyer Joins Greenberg Traurig
A former assistant section chief in the U.S. Department of Justice's Environmental and Natural Resources Division has joined Greenberg Traurig LLP's Washington, D.C., office after five years with Perkins Coie LLP.
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September 26, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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September 25, 2025
Standing Questions Loom In Mozambique LNG Loan Dispute
The requirements for organizational standing dominated much of Thursday's oral argument over the Export-Import Bank of the United States' decision to back a massive liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, as the challengers sought a preliminary injunction that could hinge on recent standing rulings from the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.
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September 25, 2025
Mining Cos. Look To Revive $50M Zimbabwe Award Suit
Two Mauritian mining companies will look to challenge a D.C. Circuit decision nixing their lawsuit to enforce an 11-year-old, $50 million arbitral award against Zimbabwe stemming from an ill-fated mining deal, according to documents made public this week.
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September 25, 2025
GAO Says Agencies' Procurement Data Reports Are Lacking
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report on Thursday that most federal agencies that reported procurement data in 2023 failed to complete a procurement data quality report or fell short of meeting all reporting requirements.
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September 25, 2025
Pa. Justices Allow Utilities To Deny Rivals' Billing For Add-Ons
Electricity distributors in Pennsylvania can apply add-ons to their customers' bills for things like smart thermostats, line insurance and tree trimming while denying the same "on-bill billing" service to third-party electricity providers, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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September 25, 2025
Ukraine Oil Co. Fails To End Disclosure In $150M Award Fight
A Texas federal magistrate judge will not lift disclosure obligations on Ukraine's largest oil company as U.S.-based Carpatsky Petroleum Corp. looks to enforce a $150 million arbitral award against it, ruling that the documents being turned over continue to prove relevant to enforcement efforts.
Expert Analysis
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Trump Tax Law's Most Consequential International Changes
The international tax provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act may result in higher effective tax rates for some multinational corporations, but others, particularly those operating in low-tax jurisdictions, may benefit from alignment with global anti-profit shifting efforts, say attorneys at Weil.
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Associates Can Earn Credibility By Investing In Relationships
As the class of 2025 prepares to join law firms this fall, new associates must adapt to office dynamics and establish credible reputations — which require quiet, consistent relationship-building skills as much as legal acumen, says Kyle Forges at Bast Amron.
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Filing Clarifies FTC, DOJ's Passive Investment Stance
The antitrust agencies' statement of interest filed in Texas v. Blackrock clarifies that certain forms of corporate governance engagement are permissible under the "solely for investment" exemption, a move that offers guidance for passive investors but also signals new scrutiny of coordinated engagement, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Lessons From 7th Circ.'s Deleted Chat Sanctions Ruling
The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, affirming the dismissal of an ex-employee’s retaliation claims, highlights the importance of properly handling the preservation of ephemeral messages and clarifies key sanctions issues, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.
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Series
Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.
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Utility Agency Suits May Rise As Calif. Justices Nix Deference
A recent California Supreme Court ruling rejecting the uniquely deferential standard of review accorded to California Public Utilities Commission decisions interpreting the Public Utilities Code will incentivize more litigation against the agency, as long as litigants can show their challenges meet certain requirements, says Thaila Sundaresan at Davis Wright.
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Sanctions Considerations For Reentering The Syrian Market
Reentering or opening new markets in Syria, now that the Trump administration has revoked certain long-standing sanctions and export controls, necessitates increased due diligence and best practices capable of adapting to a changing local environment as well as future changes in U.S. law, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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State AGs Are Turning Up The Antitrust Heat On ESG Actions
Recent antitrust developments from red state attorneys general continue a trend of environmental, social and governance scrutiny, and businesses exposed to these areas should conduct close examinations of strategy and potential material risk, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Ill. Toxic Tort Jurisdiction Law Raises Constitutional Concerns
Illinois' S.B. 328, purporting to broaden state courts' jurisdictional reach over out-of-state corporations, is presented as a measure aimed at facilitating recovery in toxic tort cases, but the legislation raises significant due process and dormant commerce clause issues, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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Environmental Justice Is Alive And Well At The State Level
Even as the Trump administration has rolled back federal environmental justice policies, many states continue to prioritize it, with new regulations, strengthened enforcement of existing rules and ongoing private litigation — so companies must stay alert to how state-level EJ enforcement may affect their operations, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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Legal Jeopardy Looms Over Trump's Trade Negotiation Plans
Even as the Trump administration announces one trade deal after another, the legal authority of the executive branch to impose tariffs under consensual arrangements with leading trading partners is just as debatable as the unilateral imposition of U.S. tariffs under the president's executive orders, says Jeffrey Bialos at Eversheds Sutherland.