The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday decided two patent cases: In Oil States Energy Services LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group LLC the justices upheld the constitutionality of America Invents Act reviews and in SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu the court ruled ...read more
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch issued his latest broadside to the well-established doctrine of Chevron deference in SAS v. Inacu on Tuesday, Justice Stephen Breyer refused to let the affront go uncontested, writing that Chevron should be ...read more
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP hired a former Vinson & Elkins LLP managing partner to co-head its expanding oil and gas practice, adding an attorney with experience in Japan and other international markets to its Tokyo office. ...read more
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would dispatch two of his top economic advisers to China “in a few days” to discuss the two countries’ escalating trade tensions over steel and aluminum tariffs, technology policy, and intellectual ...read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that refiners and a biodiesel trade group were wrong to attack a rule that set the levels of renewable fuel that must be blended into the fuel supply, defending its discretion to ...read more
A New Mexico federal judge on Monday rejected all challenges by environmental groups and a Navajo tribal group seeking to block the Bureau of Land Management from allowing further drilling in New Mexico’s Mancos Shale, after originally saying the ...read more
A Texas federal judge has refused to upend a $21.1 million jury verdict handed down after a satellite internet service provider was found to have infringed upon an Israeli defense contractor's patent, instead tacking some $5.8 million onto the bill ...read more
Perfectus Aluminum, a U.S.-based company controlled by China aluminum magnate Liu Zhongtian, has contested a U.S. Department of Commerce ruling that heavy tariffs on Chinese aluminum applied to its shipping pallets, according to documents filed Monday ...read more
Developer LCOR is reportedly eyeing a $395 million sale of a New York condo conversion building; energy billionaire Michael Smith is said to be paying a record $110 million for a Malibu, California, mansion; and Ansca Homes has reportedly sold 25 acres ...read more
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday nixed a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order claiming jurisdiction over Clarksville, Tennessee's natural gas sales to a neighboring city in Kentucky, saying that as a municipality, Clarksville is exempt under the ...read more
In recent weeks, regional transmission organizations have attempted to amend their Federal Energy Regulatory Commission tariffs to protect their energy and capacity markets from state subsidies for certain types of power generation. Such subsidies challenge ...read more
In WesternGeco v. Ion, the government and WesternGeco argued that proximate cause and foreseeability should determine the limits of recoverable patent damages, based on congressional intent and statutory language. Nevertheless, the U.S. Supreme Court ...read more
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that America Invents Act reviews do not violate the U.S. Constitution and that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has the authority to invalidate patents, leaving intact a system that has been used to challenge thousands ...read more
Bowles Rice LLP told a federal court on Friday that First American Title Insurance Co. can't prove the timeline at the heart of its argument that the law firm, which helped it during underwriting, owes money for the $41 million settlement of a title ...read more
Four climate change activists charged with tampering with an Enbridge Inc. tar sands pipeline can present evidence at their trial that their actions were necessary to prevent environmental harm caused by fossil fuel use, a Minnesota appeals court said ...read more
FirstEnergy Corp. announced Monday that it has reached a settlement agreement with two groups of “key creditors” in the Chapter 11 cases for its bankrupt power-generating subsidiaries that would fully release the parent company from bankruptcy ...read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday said it will treat as "carbon neutral" the burning of wood and wood byproducts at power plants and other facilities, a policy declaration that pleased the forestry industry and dismayed environmental ...read more
The Los Angeles-area air quality regulator on Friday asked a D.C. Circuit panel to reconsider its decision partially vacating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2008 ozone standards implementation rule. ...read more
A construction firm seeking to enforce a $1.9 million arbitration award against German solar panel supplier Recom AG urged a New Jersey federal judge Monday to block the company’s effort to avoid paying the award, saying Recom AG has sufficient ...read more
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday sided with landowners in a class action alleging a Royal Dutch Shell unit failed to pay them contractually obligated bonuses on oil and gas leases, saying the documents exchanged between the company and landowners ...read more
Houston-based engineering and construction company McDermott International Inc. on Monday said its board rejected Subsea 7 SA's roughly $2 billion acquisition offer, reiterating its commitment to buy Chicago Bridge and Iron NV in an all-stock deal ...read more
The Fifth Circuit said Friday it would not rethink its recent confirmation of an $81 million Clean Water Act penalty against Citgo Petroleum Corp. stemming from a 2006 oil spill, despite the company’s protests. ...read more
A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Friday to throw out a criminal fraud case against a former biofuel company executive who had alleged the government was aware his attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP had a conflict of interest but did ...read more
An energy company urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday not to rethink a panel ruling backing a lower court decision that rejected a challenge to a uranium mining project near the Grand Canyon, saying the appeal from a coalition of environmental groups doesn't ...read more
The Second Circuit on Monday vacated the Trump administration’s indefinite delay of higher penalties for automakers that don’t meet certain fuel efficiency standards, the latest court to rebuff efforts by the administration to delay implementation ...read more