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Delaware Business Court Insider

Glasscock Bars Access to Privileged Emails in Suit Over $3B Pipeline Deal

The Delaware Court of Chancery on Monday denied a plaintiff access to redacted documents in a derivative dispute alleging that the general partner's conflicts committee acted in bad faith in approving a $3 billion transaction that undervalued the firm's assets by $500 million.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Actuant Creates General Counsel Post, Names Fabrizio Rasetti

Rasetti is the former vice president, general counsel and secretary at Boart Longyear.
2 minute read

The Recorder

LA Judge Clears Path for J&J Motion to Toss Talc Plaintiffs' Calif. Cases

A LA judge has tentatively cleared the way for a Johnson & Johnson motion to toss out about 100 out-of-state plaintiffs from the coordinated talcum powder litigation in California in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisdictional decision last year in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

What New Russia Trade Sanctions Mean for US Companies and Investors

Seetha Ramachandran, a litigation partner at Schulte, Roth & Zabel in New York and a former federal prosecutor, discusses new trade sanctions imposed in April by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control against Russian individuals and companies.
6 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Ohio Citizenship Bars Mining Suit, Del. Judge Rules

A federal judge in Delaware has refused an attempt by Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. to tack racketeering claims onto its breach of contract suit against a Virginia coal producer in a last-ditch attempt to establish federal jurisdiction over the case.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Meet the GC at Liberty, Sean Elliott

Sean Elliott, vice president and general counsel at Liberty, talks with Texas Lawyer about everything from whom he uses for outside counsel to what he does when he's not in the office.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

BP Settlement Money Starts Flowing to Northwest Florida

BP settlement money is headed to new water and sewer lines for an industrial park, technical-education programs in two counties and expansion of the Port of Panama City.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Congressional Leaders Blast Oil Drilling Changes

Members of Florida's congressional delegation from both sides of the political aisle denounced a White House proposal that they say would weaken offshore oil-drilling regulations.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Oil Spill Lawyers Win Rare Disaster Class Certification for Coastal Property Owners

A plaintiffs team suing a pipeline operator over a 2015 oil spill off the coast of California scored a rare win when a federal judge granted certification of thousands of property owners. Of course, that success came on the third try.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Five Questions Likely to Flow From 'Water-to-Water' Cases

In two recent decisions, Hawai'i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui and EQT Production v. Department of Environmental Protection, courts have considered the nuances of “water-to-water theory” and what constitutes a single discharge.
7 minute read

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