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Vinson & Elkins, Akin Gump Lawyers Power $350M Solar Energy Deal

Lawyers from Vinson & Elkins represented Goldman Sachs' renewable energy fund in its purchase of $350 million worth of solar energy assets from South Jersey Industries (SJI), which was advised by a team of attorneys from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Gathering Agreements Are Executory Contracts That May be Rejected in Bankruptcy

On May 25, the Second Circuit upheld the New York district court's decision concluding that certain midstream gathering agreements were executory contracts, subject to rejection in a bankruptcy proceeding.
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The Recorder

In Cities' Climate Case, Alsup Points Plaintiffs to the Political Branches

In dismissing a lawsuit brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against five large oil companies, Judge William Alsup wrote that climate change "deserves a solution on a more vast scale than can be supplied by a district judge or jury in a public nuisance case."
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National Law Journal

Supreme Court Expands Patent Damages Beyond US Borders, Narrowly

Sidestepping the presumption against extraterritoriality, Justice Clarence Thomas' 7-2 opinion OKs damages under narrow overseas inducement statute.
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Daily Report Online

Supreme Court Keeps Challenge to Georgia Power Fees Alive

The putative class action accuses Georgia Power of improperly collecting fees that are supposed to be based only on actual power usage by including other assessments, including the $6 billion "nuclear fee" the General Assembly and Public Service Commission authorized the utility to tack onto customers' bills to prepay for two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle.
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New York Law Journal

Home Ownership in the Post-Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Era

In his Tax Tips column, Sidney Kess writes: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), combined with rising mortgage rates, could impact homeowners. For now, prospective buyers and homeowners need to contend with what has and hasn't changed with respect to tax breaks for homeownership as a result of this tax legislation.
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Texas Lawyer

Litigator of the Week: Midland Lawyer Wins $1 Million in Suit Claiming Sexual Harassment of Pregnant Woman

As a board-certified attorney in labor and employment law, Holly Williams admits that she and her law firm tend to stay away from filing sexual harassment…
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The Legal Intelligencer

Court Weighs In on Natural Gas Operations in the Marcellus Shale

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued two decisions on June 1 relating to the operation of natural gas wells in Pennsylvania. This article focuses on one of those decisions: Gorsline v. Board of Supervisors of Fairfield Township, No. 67 MAP 2016 (Pa. June 1).
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The Legal Intelligencer

EPA Seeking Comments on Cost-Benefit Analysis Regulations

Once the EPA identifies a source of potential environmental harm, it then decides whether and how to regulate, and certain statutes also require the EPA to perform a cost-benefit analysis. By way of background, the risk management framework for federal agencies started to change in the early 1980s.
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The American Lawyer

Jones Day's Newest Partner Seeks Nuclear Power Plant Proliferation

Elise Zoli, a former chair of the energy practice at Goodwin Procter, has joined Jones Day as a partner in Boston. And she wants more nuclear power plants.
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