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Two environmental groups are asking a Louisiana state judge to scrap the = Pelican State's approval of the Evangeline Pass natural gas pipeline projec= t that the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. is pursuing in St. Bernard Parish, ar= guing it runs afoul of the state's coastal regulations.

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Enviro Groups Challenge Louisiana Permit For Gas Pipel= ine

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By Tom Lotshaw

Two environmental groups are askin= g a Louisiana state judge to scrap the Pelican State's approval of the Evan= geline Pass natural gas pipeline project that the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co= . is pursuing in St. Bernard Parish, arguing it runs afoul of the state's c= oastal regulations.

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$135M Verdict Winners Fight New Trial Bid In Solar Far= m Row

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By Madeline Lyskawa

A Georgia couple who won $135.5 mi= llion at trial against the owner and developers of a neighboring solar farm= operation told a Georgia federal judge on Wednesday to reject requests fro= m the companies for a new trial or significantly lower damages.

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Navy Vindicated Despite 'Absolute Mess' Of $11M Lab Pr= oject

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By Alyssa Aquino

A Navy contractor for an $11 milli= on laboratory can't get reimbursed for fixing the rain-gutted construction = site, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals said, noting the "absolu= te mess" from heavy precipitation was predictable and there's little eviden= ce for the contractor's claims that it took preventive measures.

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Shell Pushes For New Trial On Calif. $41M Pipeline Ver= dict

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By Peter McGuire

A Shell pipeline unit wants a Gold= en State federal judge to order a new trial to calculate compensation for t= respassing on property owners in eastern California, but the landowners say= the oil company is delaying justice and the court should award them more t= han $30 million.

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Louisiana Says EPA Overstepping On Environmental Justi= ce

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By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. Environmental Protection = Agency is taking liberties enforcing the Civil Rights Act by improperly giv= ing community groups decision-making power and considering how pollution di= sparately affects particular racial groups, Louisiana told a federal judge = on Wednesday.

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Ga. Justices Won't Review Mercedes-Benz Stadium Death = Suit

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By Mike Curley

The Georgia Supreme Court won't gr= ant a petition to review the dismissal of claims brought by the estate of a= concrete worker who died as a result of injuries he sustained while buildi= ng the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, leaving in place a ruling that the= defendants were immune under the state's workers' compensation laws.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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NEPA Reforms May Aid Project Speed, But Red Tape Remai= ns

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The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2= 023 included amendments to the National Environmental Policy Act that are d= esigned to streamline the federal environmental review process for infrastr= ucture projects, but coordination with agencies and early stakeholder engag= ement are still likelier to lead to successful outcomes than time and page = limits, say Jena Maclean and Stephanie Regenold at Perkins Coie.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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Attys In ChatGPT Fiasco Sanctioned For 'Bad Faith' Con= duct

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By Ryan Boysen

A New York federal judge has sanct= ioned two personal injury attorneys for submitting a brief written by artif= icial intelligence that cited nonexistent case law, finding the lawyers "ab= andoned their responsibilities" to check their work, and their behavior ros= e to "bad faith" when they then waited weeks to finally come clean about th= e embarrassing episode.

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Perkins Coie Latest BigLaw Firm To Delay Associates

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By Tracey Read

Perkins Coie LLP confirmed Thursda= y that it is delaying certain first-year associates' start dates, making it= the fifth BigLaw firm in less than three months to make deferral plans pub= lic.

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Analysis

Abortion Litigation To Watch As Dobbs Decision Turns 1=

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By Hannah Albarazi

The U.S. Supreme Court's eliminati= on of the constitutional right to abortion hit like an earthquake last summ= er, uprooting long-standing reproductive rights, triggering state laws= curbing abortion access and flooding courts with litigation. A year later,= legal battles promise further shake-ups to the abortion landscape.

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Interview

How A Top Anti-Abortion Atty Sees Dobbs 1 Year Later

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By Jeff Overley

The nation's biggest law firms hav= e espoused "a very extreme, pro-abortion viewpoint" during the saga surroun= ding the U.S. Supreme Court's seismic rejection of abortion rights, putting= themselves at odds with constitutional law and their own workforces, a top= attorney at a major legal group waging anti-abortion litigation told Law36= 0.

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Interview

How A Top Abortion-Rights Atty Sees Dobbs 1 Year Later=

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By Jeff Overley

BigLaw has staunchly supported abo= rtion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wad= e because lawyers strongly believe "a change on the court doesn't mean the = status of our constitutional rights should change," a lead attorney at the = nation's preeminent legal group for abortion rights told Law360.

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A Year After Dobbs, GCs Are Trying To Maintain 'Status= Quo'

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By Michele Gorman

A year after the U.S. Supreme Cour= t overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, legal experts say gen= eral counsel and their teams are helping to maintain the policies and pract= ices their organizations had in place before the ruling, without drawing at= tention from the national media spotlight.

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Incoming Cardozo Law Student Enters NBA Draft On A Bet=

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By Aebra Coe

An incoming student at Yeshiva Uni= versity's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has gone viral after using a le= gal loophole to put his name in for Thursday's National Basketball Associat= ion draft, despite never having played basketball in a formal school settin= g.

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At Eastman Hearing, Election Denial Compared To 9/11 = Denial

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By Craig Clough

A Maricopa County, Arizona, electi= on official testified Thursday at the California disbarment hearing of Pres= ident Donald Trump's onetime attorney John Eastman that numerous credible r= eports make him confident the state's 2020 election results were secure and= accurate, "just as I know that 9/11 happened even though I wasn't in New Y= ork."

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Jenner & Block's Cybersecurity Co-Head Leaves For = NSC

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By Jack Rodgers

Jenner & Block LLP's cybersecu= rity practice co-chair has left the firm to serve as a deputy legal adviser= for the National Security Council, the firm announced Wednesday.

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Ex-AG Barr Says He Won't Work With Trump Again

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By Jessica Corso

Former U.S. Attorney General Willi= am Barr on Thursday said he wouldn't return to that post should former Pres= ident Donald Trump win a second term and invite him to do so, arguing his i= ndicted onetime boss would be a "lame duck" president if he did manage to w= in another general election.

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Magistrate Judge Not Keen To Nix Wage Suit Against Pos= ner

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By Lauraann Wood

A man who claims retired Seventh C= ircuit Judge Richard Posner hired him to run a now-defunct pro bono legal s= ervices organization should be allowed to pursue his breach of contract cla= im accusing Posner of stiffing him out of a six-figure salary, an Indiana m= agistrate judge said Wednesday.

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UK Regulator Warns Of Ransomware Crews Hitting Law Fir= ms

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By Ben Kochman

Britain's cybersecurity regulator = warned law firms on Thursday to upgrade their digital defenses amid a spree= of cyberattacks targeting the legal industry across the globe, exposing se= nsitive client data and threatening to freeze operations.

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DeSantis Beats Ousted Prosecutor's Fla. High Court Cha= llenge

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By Madison Arnold

A split Florida Supreme Court on T= hursday declined to reinstate ousted prosecutor Andrew Warren after he was = suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for signing pledges not to prosecute certain= crimes, saying he waited too long to challenge his suspension before the h= igh court.

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Facebook Users' Attys Seek $95M In $725M Meta Privacy = Deal

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By Dorothy Atkins

Counsel representing a preliminari= ly certified class of more than 200 million Facebook users asked a Californ= ia federal judge Wednesday to award them $91.2 million in fees and $4.1 mil= lion in costs for securing a $725 million deal to resolve privacy claims ov= er the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.

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California Supreme Court Approves Attorney 'Snitch Rul= e'

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By Adrian Cruz

The California Supreme Court appro= ved an ethics rule that would require lawyers in the state to report to reg= ulators misconduct by their professional peers that includes criminal acts,= fraud and the misappropriation of funds or property.

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Ex-PwC Atty Settles Disability Benefits Suit With Hart= ford

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By Ivan Moreno

A former PwC in-house counsel who = said her crippling anxiety prevented her from doing her job has settled her= suit against Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Co. over the termination= of her disability benefits, according to a Thursday order in Massachusetts= federal court.

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Feds Seek Unredacted Girardi Mental Evaluation Report<= /a>

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By Brandon Lowrey

Prosecutors have urged a Los Angel= es federal judge to force Tom Girardi's defense team to release a full copy= of an expert's mental evaluation report, saying it would be highly relevan= t to establishing the disbarred attorney's competence to stand trial.

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LA Times Nears Anti-SLAPP Win Against Geragos' Libel S= uit

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By Gina Kim

A California judge indicated Thurs= day she'll likely toss attorney Mark Geragos' defamation suit against the L= os Angeles Times over its coverage of his role in a $37 million Armenian ge= nocide settlement, which prompted a state bar probe, saying she can't find = anything actionably false in the newspaper's articles and statements.

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By Aaron West

The Fifth Circuit has sent a Louis= iana lawsuit that challenged bail practices in the state back to district c= ourt for dismissal, ruling that because relevant challenges were still poss= ible on the state level, the lower federal court had moved too fast when it= denied relief.

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American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Society of Civil En= gineers

George Washington University

Georgetown University

Google LLC

Holder Construction Co.

Infrastructure & Ener= gy Alternatives Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Los Angeles Times

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Basketball Associat= ion Inc.

Planned Parenthood Federation

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Sierra Club

Southeast Inc.

State Bar of California

The Center for Reproducti= ve Rights Inc.


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Armed Services Board of = Contract Appeals

California Supreme Court

Council on Environmental Quality=

Election Assistance Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Co= mmission

Federal Trade Commission

Florida State Senate

Florida Supreme Court

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Supreme Court

Information Commissioner's = Office

Internal Revenue Service

Louisiana Departmen= t of Environmental Quality

Louisiana Department of= Natural Resources

National Security Council

North Dakota Supreme Court

Ohio Supreme Court

Pennsylvania Department= of Human Services

Pennsylvania Department of State=

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

State Bar of Texas

U.S= . Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals = for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals = for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals = for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Di= strict Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Cou= rt for the District of Maryland

U.S. Distric= t Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Di= strict Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. Distri= ct Court for the Middle District of Georgia

U.S. D= istrict Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. Dis= trict Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Dist= rict Court for the Northern District of Indiana

U.S. Dis= trict Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S= . District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

U.S. Dis= trict Court for the Western District of Louisiana

U.S. Dist= rict Court for the Western District of Virginia

U.S. Environmental Protection= Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Excha= nge Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

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