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The Legal Intelligencer

Is the Pa. High Court Deciding the Most Helpful Environmental Rights Amendment Cases?

The Supreme Court can only decide so many cases. If we are to have a constitutional environmental provision with relevance to the interaction of private activities with the government, Pennsylvania business, organizations, and their lawyers need some guidance on both parts of the ERA.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Sullivan & Cromwell Scores International Arbitration Win for Bayer Over Assets Sold to BASF

BASF paid €7.4 billion to purchase several assets carved out of Bayer's crop science business. Last week an arbitration panel at the ICC turned back BASF's claims that Bayer hadn't properly disclosed certain costs for the divested businesses, including for personnel.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Special Section: 2022 Energy/Environmental Law

In The Legal's Energy/Environmental Law supplement, read about NRD enforcement in Pennsylvania, EV charging station proposals and environmental justice in the Biden era.
2 minute read

Law.com

A 4th PCB Trial Against Monsanto Ended in a Mistrial. 'We Were a Little Chagrined.'

After getting hit with three verdicts totaling $269 million over PCB exposure at a school in Washington state, Monsanto declared victory after a fourth ended in a mistrial on July 14.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Steps Up NRD Enforcement. Is a Comprehensive NRD Program Coming?

A recent decision from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court addressing Pennsylvania's authority and standing to seek NRD may further embolden state officials. The regulated community should be aware of changing NRD landscape in Pennsylvania and work with counsel to manage potential NRD liabilities.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Brief Overview of the Superfund Chemical Excise Tax

As the April column in this series pointed out, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 reinstituted the Superfund chemical excise tax. Somehow, more than a few of our colleagues and clients have formed the expectation that environmental practitioners are the lawyers knowledgeable on this tax. Humoring them, I try here to provide a brief outline of how this tax works.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Wrongful Death Suit Claims Lumber Liquidators Sold Defective Laminate Containing Dangerous Levels of Formaldehyde Gas

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Judge Dismisses Delaware AG Jennings' Suit Over Monsanto PCBs

The state's suit, according to Superior Court Judge Mary Miller Johnston, failed to state claims for both public nuisance and trespassing.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Duo Who Kept Monsanto's RoundUp Defense Winning Streak Alive

George Lombardi of Winston & Strawn and Jennifer Lee of Husch Blackwell led a trial team that won a defense verdict in state court last week in a case where an Oregon man claimed the herbicide caused his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, marking Monsanto's fourth straight win in Roundup cases.
5 minute read

Law.com

US Supreme Court Declines to Review Roundup Petition, Ensuring More Trials

Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ensures that court battles will continue over Monsanto's Roundup, which lawsuits contend causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
6 minute read

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