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May 19, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney has joined its banking and credit practice to focus on energy and infrastructure financing matters.
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May 18, 2026
Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton "has not paid a dime" of his $2.5 million share of an eight-figure settlement resolving shareholder litigation over a fraud-shadowed special purpose acquisition company merger, the bankrupt electric vehicle company's trustee claims, asking the Delaware Chancery Court to hold the billionaire in contempt.
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May 18, 2026
FirstEnergy Corp. is once again asking the Sixth Circuit to curb a class action alleging it defrauded investors by hiding its involvement in a $1.3 billion bribery scandal, urging the court to overturn class certification a second time.
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May 18, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel seemed unconvinced Monday that a jury improperly awarded an Illinois wind farm contractor nominal damages in a subcontractor termination dispute, but suggested the $1 award may still be unwound if the court decides the subcontractor's claims were improperly kept from trial.
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May 18, 2026
The Seventh Circuit found enough "overwhelming" evidence last month to sustain the conviction of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, but a U.S. Supreme Court that's spent years narrowing the reach of public corruption laws may be interested in whether prosecutors proved a sufficiently specific quid pro quo.
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May 18, 2026
California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection granted safety regulation waivers without proper review, allowing Sable Offshore Corp. to restart operations of a Santa Barbara oil pipeline system a decade after a catastrophic oil spill, environmental and Native American organizations said in a suit removed to federal court.
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May 18, 2026
A comedian who testified Monday at a California bellwether trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused three women's deadly ovarian cancer wiped away tears as he talked about his late mother, saying his emotions are "a little unusual" because he spends most of his time trying not to be serious.
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May 18, 2026
Volvo Group North America has agreed to pay roughly $197 million to resolve allegations the automaker violated California's emissions and certification standards, according to an announcement made Monday by the California Air Resources Board.
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May 18, 2026
Any artificial intelligence prompts that an environmental advocacy group's expert witness used to craft her report in a Clean Water Act case are discoverable as part of her methodology, a Connecticut federal judge ruled in ordering additional disclosure efforts.
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May 18, 2026
The Trump administration has rejected Hawaii's plan to comply with national emission standards to limit regional haze, repeating a novel argument that the closure of a fossil fuel-fired power plant as part of the plan appears to be unconstitutional.
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May 18, 2026
The state of California's claim that Exxon Mobil Corp. is responsible for plastic pollution belongs in federal court, the petroleum giant told a Ninth Circuit panel during a hearing on Monday, arguing that federal courts have admiralty jurisdiction because the litigation targets pollution in navigable waters, among other alleged injuries.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Ninth Circuit decision holding that legal liability does not extend to auditors who certify a client's financial statements for initial public offerings, even if those statements are later found to contain alleged misstatements.
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May 18, 2026
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Monday extended into a second year the life of a Michigan coal-fired power plant slated for closure, just days after the D.C. Circuit considered whether such moves are a lawful use of Wright's emergency authority.
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May 18, 2026
Federal prosecutors moved Monday to permanently dismiss criminal charges accusing Adani Group Chairman Gautam S. Adani and seven others of orchestrating a $250 million bribery scheme to secure lucrative Indian government renewable-energy contracts while misleading investors about the dealings of an Adani Group subsidiary.
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May 18, 2026
NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy said Monday they will merge in an all-stock transaction that combines two of the largest regulated U.S. utilities, in a roughly $67 billion deal steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and McGuireWoods LLP.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected yet another challenge to the Federal Circuit's use of one-line orders to affirm Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions, a practice CAO Lighting Inc. argued violates the high court's Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo precedent.
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May 15, 2026
After a contentious passage in the House, the Farm Bill may face a similarly thorny path in the Senate. Here, Law360 previews the key issues environmental attorneys are watching in the proposed legislation.
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May 15, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Friday halted a Maryland law aimed at preventing electricity companies from falsely marketing their power as environmentally friendly, saying it may be overly broad in a likely violation of the First Amendment.
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Friday ended a former Apache Corp. employee's race and disability discrimination suit before jurors could deliberate, granting motions for judgment by the company and its parent that said the ex-employee was not able to offer evidence on any of her claims.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to let publicly traded companies move from a quarterly to a semiannual earnings reporting schedule, but energy industry volatility and investor expectations may make oil and gas firms reluctant to embrace the option.
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May 15, 2026
The Trump administration seeks to keep a nearly decade-old case filed by one of Russia's largest oil companies to enforce a $173 million arbitral award against Ukraine on ice until hostilities in the region have ended, saying Kyiv has "credibly asserted" that its national security is at risk.
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May 15, 2026
The Russian Federation's constitution and statutes make clear that Vladimir Putin's administration and Yukos Oil Co.'s financing arm didn't have a valid agreement to arbitrate a dispute that resulted in a nearly $5 billion arbitral award against the country, Russia told the D.C. Circuit Friday.
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May 15, 2026
Federal Democratic lawmakers are backing environmental and tribal advocacy groups' opposition to the Trump administration's plan to rescind the long-standing Roadless Area Conservation Rule, arguing the rollback will cause widespread harm to public lands, wildlife, frontline communities and regional economies.
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May 15, 2026
A Georgia-based steel and metal distributor was hit with a proposed class action in federal court alleging it failed to safeguard the personal data of more than 5.5 million account holders during a February data breach.
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May 15, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel attempted Friday to find the limit on the U.S. Department of Energy's emergency authority to keep power plants running without a regional utility's request, with Michigan arguing that no emergency existed to justify the federal government's orders to keep a Consumers Energy plant online.