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The Legal Intelligencer

Environmental Cases in the Pennsylvania Appellate Courts During 2017

The Pennsylvania appellate courts decided about two dozen cases that one could call “environmental” last year. A brief review follows that necessarily…
11 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: 24,000 Years of Litigation?

The feds paid $534 million in 2017 for suits by power plants over storage of spent nuclear fuel--and there's no end in sight. Plus three airlines settle an antitrust class action.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Morgan Lewis Among Law Firms With Roles on Nuclear Energy Deals

Mayer Brown, McGuireWoods, Morgan Lewis and Weil, Gotshal & Manges are advising on a pair of potential transactions that could reshape the U.S. nuclear energy sector. Weil has reaped millions in legal fees for its work on behalf of one company, bankrupt Westinghouse Electric.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Huge Petrobras Settlement a Wake-Up Call for General Counsel

The $2.95 billion settlement should show companies just how important anticorruption measures and compliance regimes can be.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In FCPA Case, In-House Lawyer Wishes He Had Quit Over Bribes

Jeffery Chow, who worked 25 years in Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd.'s legal department, cooperated with the DOJ in its case in federal district court in Brooklyn against Singapore-based Keppel and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary as part of a plea agreement. His plea deal and a transcript of his hearing remarks were unsealed on Dec. 22, the same day Keppel settled its FCPA case with the U.S., Singapore and Brazil for over $422 million.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Environmental Predictions Under Governor Murphy

From climate change and clean energy, to new standards for emerging contaminants, projections on what environmental policy may look like in Governor Murphy's administration.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Citgo Agrees to Pay $8M to Settle Spam Text Class Action

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit was resolved only about a year after it was filed.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

FPL Liable for $24M in Teen's Electrocution Death

Plaintiffs attorneys argued the utility knew bamboo stalks in the boy's neighborhood were dangerously close to power lines.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Successive Owners and an Obligation to Restore a Stream

Earlier this month, the Commonwealth Court decided a case focused primarily on what constitutes a “watercourse” or “stream” under the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act.
8 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Supreme Court Denies $14M Payment on Michigan Wind Farm

The Delaware Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Exelon General Acquisitions' decision to change the location of a Michigan wind farm allowed the company to avoid a $14 million earn-out payment to Deere & Co. stemming from its 2010 purchase of Deere's wind-energy business.
4 minute read

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