Two decisions that just recently came to light—one issued in December and another handed down a year ago—have squelched a high-profile ethics complaint lodged against four Crowell & Moring lawyers who penned a controversial mining industry–related memo in 2011 that raised the specter of inbreeding in the Appalachian region.

The Am Law Daily reported in October 2011 on the 58-page complaint filed against the four Crowell lawyers with the Office of Bar Counsel in Washington, D.C., by Jason Huber, an Appalachia native and assistant professor at the Charlotte School of Law.

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