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Daily Business Review

Mexico Plans State Lithium Company, Questions Chinese Mine

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had said in October that he wants to declare lithium a "strategic mineral" and reserve future exploration and mining to the government.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Environmental Justice as a Catalyst for Superfund Reform

Congress created the Superfund program to address the most contaminated sites in the nation. Enacted in 1980, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is designed to address waste disposal sites posing a threat to human health and the environment.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Consumers Claim McCormick Spices Contain Heightened Levels of Carcinogens

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

The Legal Intelligencer

Hangley Aronchick Sends Suit Against 3M, DuPont Over Alleged Drinking Water Contamination to Fed Court

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

The Recorder

Criminal Charges Dropped Against Lawyer Accused of Jacoby & Meyers Referral, Insurance Scheme

The dismissal follows a prosecutor's removal from the case for attorney-client privilege violations.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Why the SAFE Banking Act Stinks for MRBs

Despite lessening criminal/administrative penalties and depository insurance obstacles, the SAFE Banking Act fails to put legal cannabis on equal footing with all other legitimate industries or make depository accounts and merchant services either available or affordable.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

DeSantis Administration Seeks to Scuttle Piney Point Lawsuit

Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the state is already working to resolve the problems at the Piney Point site, where massive amounts of polluted water were released this spring to avert a potential catastrophe.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Meet the South Florida Litigator Who Co-Led the $626M Partial Settlement in the Flint Water Crisis

"We had probably from eight to 12 appeals that were not just to the Michigan Supreme Court, but also to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals," said Theodore J. Leopold, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Kirkland Litigators Bet on Client Huntsman and Themselves to Land $665M Arbitration Award on Contingency

Kirkland partners Gene Assaf, Mike Williams and Peter Farrell led a team that brought home a $200 million contingency fee after accusing Rockwood and executives of orchestrating a "massive fraud" in the $1.1 billion sale of its pigments businesses to Huntsman.
12 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Fairest of Them All: Advocating CERCLA Allocation

CERCLA Section 113(f) authorizes contribution claims among parties jointly and severally liable for the same response actions or costs. Section 113(f)(1) goes on to provide that "in resolving contribution claims, the court may allocate response costs among liable parties using such equitable factors as the court determines are appropriate."
8 minute read

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