July 07, 2020
A Tennessee federal judge declined to sanction workers claiming Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. failed to protect them on a coal ash spill cleanup in Tennessee, ruling Tuesday that Jacobs hadn't proven the workers or their attorneys leaked details of the company's $10 million settlement offer to the press.
June 05, 2020
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is arguing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upended a Tennessee federal judge's prior refusal to grant the contractor immunity from claims it failed to protect workers during a coal ash spill cleanup in Tennessee.
May 12, 2020
Attorneys representing workers who claim Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. failed to protect them on a coal ash spill cleanup in Tennessee have told a federal court they weren't responsible for the company's $10 million settlement offer showing up in the press and shouldn't be sanctioned for it.
April 28, 2020
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. wants sanctions against attorneys representing workers who claim the company failed to protect them on a coal ash spill cleanup in Tennessee, after a report about a $10 million settlement offer landed on the front page of a local newspaper.
February 28, 2019
A Tennessee federal judge on Thursday refused to grant Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. a new general liability trial after a jury found that the company breached its contractual requirement to protect workers who conducted a coal ash spill cleanup, allowing the case to move toward a Phase II trial.
December 06, 2018
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. on Wednesday urged a Tennessee federal judge to vacate a jury's finding that the company breached its contractual requirement to protect workers on a coal ash spill clean up, arguing no reasonable jury could have found it was acting outside the bounds of the contract.
November 02, 2016
Covington & Burling LLP escaped a disqualification bid Tuesday in litigation over Jacobs Engineering Group's alleged failure to protect workers from coal ash exposure, but was admonished by a Tennessee federal judge over its dual representation of the company and non-party witnesses.
September 16, 2016
Covington & Burling LLP told a Tennessee federal judge on Thursday that its dual representation of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and non-party witnesses in a lawsuit alleging the company failed to protect workers from coal ash exposure did not create a conflict of interest worthy of the firm's disqualification.
September 01, 2016
A group of workers suing an engineering firm for allegedly failing to protect them during a coal ash spill cleanup on Thursday asked a Tennessee federal judge to disqualify Covington & Burling LLP from representing the company, saying the firm improperly contacted independent witnesses.