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Protestors Target Linklaters London Office Over Fossil Fuel Work

Research earlier this month found that between 2019-2023, the top 100 law firms in the world facilitated $2.89 trillion in fossil fuel transactions.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Supreme Court Grants Review on ConocoPhillips Royalty Lease Dispute

Respondent's attorney Clinton Twaddell III argues that if Conoco's position prevails "thousands of deals in place" would be rewritten, "and instigate a stampede of lawsuits."
3 minute read

Law.com

Inside Track: Elon Musk's Latest Tesla GC Showing Staying Power in Tricky Role

Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery wrote in January that Tesla CEO Elon Musk "wields unusually expansive managerial authority, equaling or even exceeding the imperial CEOs of the 1960s."
3 minute read

The Recorder

'Deeply Troubling': Tesla Sued Over 'Racially Hostile Work Environment' Amid Surge of Racial Discrimination Litigation

Current and former Tesla employees who worked at Tesla's EV manufacturing facilities in Fremont and Lathrop, California, allege that supervisors and colleagues at these factories created a "racially hostile work environment" by routinely harassing African American, Hispanic and Latinx Tesla employees.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Judge Dismisses Exxon Suit Against Investor, Defusing Showdown That Sparked Outrage

Federal Judge Mark Pittman ruled the case became moot after Arjuna Capital promised to withdraw the climate change shareholder proposal that had spurred the lawsuit and to never submit anything similar again.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Tesla Sues Ex-Supplier, Alleging It Stole EV Battery Trade Secrets

The electric carmaker's complaint, filed by its in-house counsel and Fish & Richardson on June 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Matthews of flouting several nondisclosure agreements, filing patents that co-opt Tesla's trade secrets and leaking confidential information to Tesla's rivals.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Court Gives No Relief to Energy Companies Slammed by Winter Storm Price Hikes

The court of appeals strayed from its lane by inquiring whether the orders could have used competitive rather than regulatory methods to any greater extent than it did, Chief Justice Nathan Hecht said.
3 minute read

Law.com

A Court Just Restored $8.5 Billion in Claims in This Massive Bankruptcy Case

Bondholders said the decision reinstating their claims restores the municipal market's understanding of the proper functioning of special revenue bonds.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Army of Lawyers Suit Up for Price-Gouging Antitrust Class Actions

"Eleven nearly identical putative class action complaints have been filed against defendants, alleging a conspiracy to constrain the production of shale oil to increase the price of oil products," the oil company defendants said.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Oil Field Supplier Gets Stay on USDOT Ban on Transport of Explosive

Had the agency carefully reviewed the evidence, it would have realized its findings were overwhelmingly contradicted by that evidence, the U.S. Fifth Circuit noted.
3 minute read

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