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Daily Business Review

Chamber of Commerce Poll Points to Trouble for Many Ballot Proposals

The poll, conducted in late May and early June, showed four amendments with the necessary 60 percent of voter support.
1 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Natural Resource Damages: Are We Out of the Woods Yet?

In many cases, a successful environmental remediation does not account for restoration of natural resources.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

J&J 'Rigged Tests' on Whether Baby Powder Was Laced With Asbestos, Lanier Tells Jury

Johnson & Johnson “rigged the tests” to avoid conceding that its baby powder contained asbestos, causing 22 women to get ovarian cancer, plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier told a St. Louis jury in opening statements on Wednesday in the most high-volume talcum powder trial to date.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Trial Linking Talc to 22 Ovarian Cancer Cases Set to Open in Mo.

Claims of 22 women are set to be tested in the case, the first scheduled to go to trial since the Supreme Court's 2017 decision in "Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California," which made it harder for nonresident litigants to pursue claims in multiplaintiff lawsuits.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Greenberg Traurig's Phil Gildan Details P3 Work, Harvard Fellowship

Gildan is working on behalf of Alaska on a natural gas pipeline and in South Florida on a drinking water replenishment project.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Trial Opens Over Lawyer's Death Allegedly Caused by J&J's Baby Powder

The trial against Johnson & Johnson claims an attorney's lifetime use of its baby powder caused her to get one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Part of Growing Trend, Anadarko Shareholders Approve Climate Change Resolution

“Shareholders are clearly expressing to companies that they want climate risk in their decision-making,” said one advocate.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Glasscock Greenlights Contract Claims in Suit Over Diverted Bid Rights

The Delaware Court of Chancery has allowed breach of contract claims to proceed against the manager of a Delaware LLC accused of diverting the firm's assets to benefit himself and his friends.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 of the Biggest Compliance Questions About Renewed Iran Trade Sanctions, Answered

Greta Lichtenbaum, a partner at O'Melveny & Myers whose practice includes international trade and regulatory compliance, answered Corporate Counsel's questions about the impact on multinational companies of the Trump administration's renewed sanctions against Iran.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Taxman (May Not) Cometh: The Deductibility of Environmental 'Penalties'

Buried within last December's massive Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Pub. L. No. 115–97, 131 Stat. 2054 (TCJA), is an obscure provision that may change the litigation and settlement calculus for companies facing environmental enforcement actions.
5 minute read

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