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National Law Journal

Cohen Milstein Human Rights Practice Chair on Career Trajectory, Court Access and Crafting a Practice

"We need to keep pushing to ensure that people who've gotten ensnared in human trafficking or have been victims of human rights atrocities have access to justice. If it's an American company, they ought to be able to sue in our own courts."
7 minute read

National Law Journal

EPA Should Close Loopholes on Proposed Coal Ash Rule, Environmental Lawyers Tell Agency

"Having strong rules in place simply is not enough if those rules are not enforced," said Lauren Piette, an attorney at EarthJustice.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

REJECTED: Oil and Gas Settlements Nixed Before US Fifth Circuit

"The vast majority of claimants in the Demchak and Brown-Suessenbach suits ... have no recourse in bankruptcy court for their pre-petition monetary claims," the Fifth Circuit concluded.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Forum Shopping? Dallas Appeals Court Rejects $48.3M Foreign Judgment

"It is antithetical to our system of justice to be able to file a suit for recognition of a judgment when the purported judgment debtor has no ties to the state," the Dallas Court of Appeals found.
5 minute read

Law.com

9th Circuit: Obama Had Authority to Expand Monument's Territory Into Land Reserved for Timber Production

The 2-1 majority disagreed with Murphy's contention and said the company "overreads" the limit of the law's congressional commitment to timber production in the O&C Act, and that it "improperly discount[ed]" the statute's delegation of authority to the Department of Interior and its secretary for managing land from the act for uses other than timber.
4 minute read

Law.com

State High Court Adopts Restatement of Restitution, Unjust Enrichment Regarding 'Common Fund'

"What our court did was actually make clear that we do adopt common fund doctrine. The circuit court judge did not think we did. Almost every state and federal court that I could find recognizes it," said David J. Romano, an attorney who sought fees and costs after negotiating a separate $2.23 million settlement fund on behalf of unknown heirs.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Supreme Court Decides 'Force Majeure' Dispute in Oil and Gas Law

Several of the state's largest private lessors, led by Black Stone Minerals LP, filed an amicus defending Point Energy.
4 minute read

Law.com

Lower Court Improperly Granted Sovereign Immunity in Environmental Clean-Up Suit, State High Court Rules

"The nature of the entity's activity—not just whether the entity is incorporated under state or tribal law should remain an important consideration when determining whether to extend immunity," Justice Beth Baker wrote for the majority.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Bad Faith: a Texas Lawmaker is Seeking a Legislative Remedy to this Judicial Problem

"You've got a lot of people that are participating in the overriding royalty interest, a lot of families have been wiped out where they've kept an overriding royalty on leased property," Rep. Tom Craddick said.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Oil Edges Lower as Commodities Ease, Investors Eye Rate Hike

Oil has had a bumpy ride in recent months, with prices supported by the demand outlook in China but held back by concerns that the U.S. could slip into recession.
2 minute read

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