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A North Dakota federal judge has lifted a nearly two-year-long stay on cl= aims by Native American reservation residents that a Marathon Petroleu= m Corp. subsidiary illegally operated an oil pipeline on their land after i= ts property easement expired.

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TOP NEWS

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Marathon Pipeline Trespass Suit Back On After 2-Year S= tay

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By Peter McGuire

A North Dakota federal judge has l= ifted a nearly two-year-long stay on claims by Native American reserva= tion residents that a Marathon Petroleum Corp. subsidiary illegally operate= d an oil pipeline on their land after its property easement expired.

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Bipartisan Sens. Urge Feds To Narrow Aluminum Tariff W= aivers

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By Alyssa Aquino

A bipartisan group of senators urg= ed the U.S. Department of Commerce to narrow its exemptions to national sec= urity tariffs on aluminum extrusions, saying domestic companies face unreas= onable odds in challenging importers' waiver requests.

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Justices Told Federal Court Should Hear Calif. Housing= Denial

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By Nate Beck

Two people seeking to build a resi= dence on an undeveloped part of their property near San Francisco have aske= d the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if they must litigate a city's eminent d= omain taking of the land in state court before bringing federal claims.

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LITIGATION

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Conservation Group Drops Ga. Army Corps Dredging Suit<= /a>

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By Peter McGuire

A Georgia federal judge on Friday = granted a conservation group's motion to dismiss its own lawsuit alleging t= he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers botched an environmental analysis of a harb= or-dredging plan after the agency stalled the project and pledged to conduc= t further analysis of its effects on protected sea turtles and other impact= s.

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Texas City Isn't Immune In Tex-Mex Suit, High Court Ru= les

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By Catherine Marfin

A split state high court said Frid= ay that League City, Texas, couldn't claim governmental immunity after bein= g accused by a Tex-Mex restaurant of breaching an incentives grant contract= because the city was acting in a proprietary capacity, not a governmental = one, when it entered into the agreement.

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DEALS

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Energy Dept. OKs $850M Loan For Arizona Battery Plant<= /a>

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By Peter McGuire

An advanced battery plant set for = construction in Arizona will get an $850 million federal loan, part of the = Biden administration's pursuit of increased domestic battery manufacturing = for energy storage and electric vehicles, according to a Friday U.S. Depart= ment of Energy statement.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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For NY Wind And Solar Projects, Some Tax Assessment Cl= arity

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Recent legislation, which moots a = challenge to New York’s discounted cash flow method for assessing sol= ar and wind project real property taxes, lifts a cloud of uncertainty and b= rings new considerations for developers, investors and lenders, say attorne= ys at Hodgson Russ.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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In Trump Probes, Mar-A-Lago Case Vaults Ahead Of Pack<= /a>

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By Phillip Bantz

The federal criminal prosecution o= f Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents in Flor= ida is more likely to clear legal hurdles than the Manhattan district attor= ney's complex hush-money case, experts say, though the former president has= a few potential defenses at his disposal.

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Trump's Documents Defense Team Shifts As 2 Lawyers Res= ign

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By Jess Krochtengel

Two lawyers who had been part of t= he defense team for former President Donald Trump related to classified doc= uments removed from the White House resigned on Friday just after Trump sai= d he had been criminally charged for taking presidential records.

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Meet The Ex-Cadwalader Atty Defending Trump In Docs Ca= se

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By Jack Karp

Donald Trump has tapped a onetime = Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP partner who is no stranger to Trump an= d his allies' legal struggles to represent him against the historic federal= indictment of a former president.

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Analysis

Judge Cannon Assignment Raises Bias Issues In Trump Ca= se

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By Katie Buehler

Southern District of Florida Judge= Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, has been tapped to oversee former Presid= ent Donald Trump's arraignment on charges he violated the Espionage Act and= obstructed justice by taking presidential records and classified documents= to his Mar-a-Lago estate, but some law professors don't believe her name w= ill be on the docket for long.

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Meet The Atty For Trump's Indicted 'Body Man' Walt Nau= ta

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By Sarah Jarvis

The lawyer representing an aide ch= arged alongside former President Donald Trump in the historic Florida feder= al court indictment unsealed Friday has represented a host of defendants ti= ed to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and has BigLaw exp= erience representing clients ranging from Coca-Cola to an environmental gro= up.

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Shumaker Loop, Ex-Partner Stuck With New Noncompete

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By Ryan Harroff

An Ohio state appeals court stood = by a lower court's decision confirming an arbitrator's award that relaxed t= he terms of a noncompete agreement for an attorney who left his partnership= and immediately joined a competitor located in the same building, rejectin= g appeals from both sides claiming that the arbitrator went beyond his auth= ority.

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McElroy Deutsch Must Face Bookkeeper's Bias Suit =09

By Jake Maher

A former Graham Curtin PA bookkeep= er can go ahead with her suit alleging she was discriminated against for ta= king disability leave when she wasn't rehired after Graham Curtin merged in= to McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, the New Jersey Appellate D= ivision ruled Friday.

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Ex-Nationwide Legal Exec Named Ohio High Court Directo= r

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By Christine DeRosa

A former top legal executive for N= ationwide Insurance Company is set to join the Ohio Supreme Court as its ad= ministrative director next month.

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Calif. Bar Says Atty Can't Escape BLM Tweets Ethics Ch= arges

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By Lynn LaRowe

A California state bar court shoul= d brush aside a lawyer's bid to toss on First Amendment grounds ethics char= ges against her over tweets she made in May 2020 during Black Lives Matter = protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, according to the inves= tigative arm of the State Bar of California.

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Pharmacy Compliance Exec Guilty Of $50M Medicare Fraud=

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By Khadrice Rollins

A former compliance executive at a= pharmacy operator was convicted in Michigan federal court of fraudulently = billing Medicare for more than $50 million for dispensing lidocaine and dia= betic testing supplies the benefit holders did not want, prosecutors announ= ced.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

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By Kevin Penton

The NAACP Legal Defense & Educ= ation Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Hogan Lovells an= d Elias Law Group top this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the = U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama redistricting maps violate the Voting= Rights Act.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week=

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By Sue Reisinger

SEC chief Gary Gensler explained w= hy he thinks crypto firms like Binance and FTX are "hucksters," and experts= explain why it's a good idea to add an independent lawyer, with a depth of= corporate experience and knowledge, to a company board. These are some of = the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In Londo= n

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By Tabitha Burbidge

The past week in London has seen R= as Al Khaimah Investment Authority face a fresh lawsuit from a Georgian law= yer and businessman, law firm Jones Day sued again for its involvement in s= urveillance carried out by German payments company Wirecard, and financiall= y troubled budget airline Go First hit with a breach of contract claim from= one of its plane lessors. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims= in the U.K.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On La= w360

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For those who missed out, here's a= look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the= most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Podcast

Pro Say: Golf's Big Truce Isn't Out Of The Woods Yet

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The bitter legal dispute that has = swallowed up the golf world for the past year vanished in a flash this week= , as the PGA Tour and its Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf rolled out a blockbus= ter agreement to join forces. On this week's episode of the Pro Say podcast= , we take a look at the surprise deal and the long road ahead for the tie-u= p.

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Podcast

The Term: The Voting Rights Act Survives. What's Next?=

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In one of the blockbuster voting r= ights cases of the U.S. Supreme Court term, a five-justice majority on Thur= sday concluded that an Alabama congressional map drawn following the 2020 c= ensus diluted Black voter representation in violation of Section 2 of the V= oting Rights Act.

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COMPA= NIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AARP Inc.

Allied World Assuran= ce Company Holdings, ltd.

American Civil Liberties Union

Apple Inc.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Brooklyn Law School

Cable News Network Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc.

Google LLC

Human Rights Campaign

Jack Daniel's Properties Inc.<= /a>

LexisNexis Group Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

NAACP Legal Defense= and Educational Fund Inc.

Nascar Digital Media LLC

National Center for Lesbian R= ights

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.

Netflix Inc.

Novartis AG

Ohio State University

PGA TOUR Inc.

Pacific Legal Foundation

Skype Technologies SA

Snap Inc.

SolarCity Corp.

Southern Environmental Law Cen= ter

Southern Legal Counsel

Spotify Technology SA

State Bar of California

Supervalu Inc.

Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

The Catholic University of Am= erica

The University of Alabama Syste= m

The University of Glasgow

Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.

Trump Organization Inc.

Twitter Inc.

University of Southern Califor= nia

Washington Post Co.

Weber Shandwick Worldwide Inc.


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Beale & Co. Solicitors

Brand Woodward

Brown Rudnick

Bryan Cave

Cadwalader Wickersham

Campbell Johnston

Carmagnola & Ritardi

Castronovo & McKinney

Desmond Nolan Livaich & Cunnin= gham

Simons Muirhead Burton

Skadden Arps

Spengler Nathanson

Stokoe Partnership Solicitors

GOVE= RNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Central Intelligence Agency

City of League City, Texas

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commissi= on

Federal Reserve System

MHA Nation

National Archives an= d Records Administration

National Marine Fisheries Servi= ce

National Security Agency

New York City Police Department

New York State Assembly

New York State = Department of Taxation and Finance

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. A= ttorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Dist= rict Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. Dist= rict Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Securities and Excha= nge Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

Uni= ted States District Court for the District of North Dakota

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

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