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The ripple effects of the Inflation Reduction Act are reaching the other = side of the Atlantic Ocean, and attorneys say European policymakers have ad= vanced new clean energy incentives in order to retain interest from develop= ers and investors whose heads are being turned by the U.S.

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Analysis

The IRA Has Europe Upping Its Clean Energ= y Game

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By Keith Goldberg

The ripple effects of the Inflatio= n Reduction Act are reaching the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and atto= rneys say European policymakers have advanced new clean energy incentives i= n order to retain interest from developers and investors whose heads are be= ing turned by the U.S.

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CIT Says Commerce Must Explain Chinese Fl= ooring Duty Data

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By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Court of International Tr= ade on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce to explain why it dev= iated from using data from a single surrogate country when calculating duti= es for Chinese wood flooring, saying the department's decision was unsubsta= ntiated.

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Feds Liable For COVID-19 Extension To Con= tractor's Rentals

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By Alyssa Aquino

The Armed Services Board of Contra= ct Appeals backed a military contractor seeking payment for housing rentals= that were dragged out by COVID-19, saying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers= effectively revised the contract by using the temporary facilities through= out stop-work orders.

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'Cop City' Construction Must Stop, Ga. Ri= ver Group Says

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By Emilie Ruscoe

An ecological restoration organiza= tion has asked an Atlanta federal judge for an injunction halting construct= ion on a massive law enforcement training facility that critics have dubbed= "Cop City," arguing that sediment from the build site poses a threat to wi= ldlife in a nearby creek in violation of the federal Clean Water Act.

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Georgia Woman Drops CWA Suit Over Rivian = Site Work

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By Tom Lotshaw

A Georgia woman is dropping her Cl= ean Water Act suit against electric vehicle maker Rivian and an engineering= and excavation company over work on a $5 billion vehicle manufacturing pla= nt in the Peach State, court records show.

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Conn. Panel Upholds Arbiter's Liquidated = Damages Ruling

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By Aaron Keller

A panel of judges on Connecticut's= intermediate appellate court Friday upheld a trial court's affirmation of = a liquidated damages award in an underlying arbitration between a solar pan= el company and a condominium association, saying the relevant arbitration a= greement and the subsequent award did not violate public policy.

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PEOPLE

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Lewis Brisbois Adds Liability Partner In = Nashville

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By Adrian Cruz

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smit= h LLP announced that an attorney with over 15 years of experience working o= n a wide range of liability matters has joined the firm's Nashville office = as a partner.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Negotiating Material Escalation In Constr= uction Contracts

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As material price escalation claus= es have remained popular in construction contracts despite an easing of rec= ent supply chain issues, attorneys representing owners should understand ke= y considerations for negotiating such clauses, and strategies to mitigate p= otential exploitation by contractors, says H. Arthur Black II at Brooks Pie= rce.

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Opinion

More States Should Join Effort To Close L= egal Services Gap

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Colorado is the most recent state = to allow other types of legal providers, not just attorneys, to offer speci= fic services in certain circumstances — and more states should rethin= k the century-old assumptions that shape our current regulatory rules, say = Natalie Anne Knowlton and Janet Drobinske at the University of Denver.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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Ex-GMU Law Prof. Says Sex With Students W= as 'Consensual'

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By Aebra Coe

In a $108 million defamation lawsu= it filed Thursday in Virginia state court, former George Mason University l= aw professor Joshua Wright said two former students who have brought allega= tions of sexual misconduct against him are "scorned former lovers" who had = a "premeditated plan to ruin [his] life."

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Thrown Into The Deep End, These Summers M= ade A Splash

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By Cara Salvatore

Some summer associates get more tr= ial experience than they bargained for, deployed in critical roles in their= first — and last — weeks on the job. Law360 tells a few of the= ir stories.

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Trump's Mugshot Was Defiant. How Will He = Look To Jurors?

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By Phillip Bantz

Donald Trump's glowering mugshot t= aken Thursday night as he was booked on charges he schemed to overturn Geor= gia's 2020 presidential election appeals to the former president's supporte= rs and will sell plenty of coffee mugs and T-shirts, but it's unclear how h= is defiant expression will play with jurors.

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ABA Condemns Attacks On Law Firm Diversit= y Efforts

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By Xiumei Dong

The American Bar Association on Fr= iday condemned recent actions from elected officials and advocacy groups th= at challenge law firms' diversity programs in light of the U.S. Supreme Cou= rt's decision overturning affirmative action, saying it is "deeply troubled= " by these efforts.

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Aircraft Co. Sued Over Crash That Killed = Cooley Atty, 9 Others

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By Greg Lamm

Representatives for eight of the 1= 0 people who died last year in a seaplane crash near Seattle, including a f= ormer Cooley LLP lawyer, have filed wrongful death complaints in Washi= ngton state court against airplane manufacturer De Havilland Aircraft of Ca= nada and a charter plane company.

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Davis Polk Blasted Over Fees Bid For Paul= Hastings Work

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By Emily Johnson

U.S.-based Chinese nationals ̵= 2; whose suit accusing Paul Hastings LLP of not registering as a foreign ag= ent was dismissed earlier this month — called a request from the defe= ndants' legal team at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP for more than $327,000 = in attorney fees "grossly excessive" and unreasonable.

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Analysis

How Artificial Intelligence Is Transformi= ng The M&A Practice

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By Al Barbarino

The advent of artificial intellige= nce is stimulating new types of mergers and acquisitions while radical= ly changing how firms guide them, replacing some of the due diligence, cont= ract work and other tasks that were once reserved for humans.

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Eastman Can't Delay Calif. Disbarment Tri= al Or DQ Expert

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By Craig Clough

Embattled attorney John Eastman su= ffered a pair of setbacks at his California disbarment trial Friday as the = judge overseeing the case denied his requests to delay the proceedings due = to his criminal indictment in Georgia and to disqualify a legal scholar's t= estimony that is highly critical of Eastman's legal theories.

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Gone Fishin': Atty Disses IOLTA Overdraft= Discipline Probe

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By Tracey Read

A Connecticut lawyer replied to a = statewide grievance committee email about a trust account overdraft by sayi= ng he was too busy eating "delicious" fish he caught on vacation and tellin= g authorities they weren't a priority in his life, triggering an audit, acc= ording to a presentment filed Thursday in Connecticut state court.

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NY Attorney Sanctioned Over Robing Room '= Buffoonery'

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By Emily Sawicki

A New York state court judge in Br= ooklyn has ordered sanctions for an unnamed attorney who made a series of o= ff-color jokes and comments toward interns, a clerk and opposing counsel ah= ead of a courtroom appearance at Kings County Supreme Court.

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9th Circ. Says Non-MDL Clients Can Be Pa= rt Of Common Fund

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By Aaron West

The Ninth Circuit has ruled that a= lower court had the authority to deny two Texas law firms' bid to exempt n= on-multidistrict litigation claims from the assessment of certain attorney = fees in an MDL over an allegedly defective catheter device.

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Satanists' Attys Can't Beat Sanctions Fo= r Duplicative Suits

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By Jake Maher

Attorneys for a Satanic temple mus= t pay sanctions for filing a second civil rights lawsuit against a Minnesot= a city while a first lawsuit based on the same facts was still pending, eve= n after a magistrate judge warned them that doing so would "severely prejud= ice" the city, the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday.

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Bogus Arrest Warrants For Gov't Official= s Land Duo In Prison

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By Lauren Berg

The creator of an anti-government = website that issued bogus arrest warrants and judgments from a fictitious c= ourt against hundreds of public officials was sentenced in North Carolina f= ederal court Friday to 10 years behind bars, the U.S. Department of Justice= announced.

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CNS Cites Past Free Speech Wins To NC's = Dismissal Bid

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By Matt Perez

National media company Courthouse = News Service on Thursday argued against a motion to dismiss its May lawsuit= against the director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Co= urts and three county court clerks in federal court, saying its present cla= ims are the same deployed in previously successful litigation spearheaded b= y the news outlet.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

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By Kevin Penton

Georgetown Law's Appellate Courts = Immersion Clinic and Ellwanger Law lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal= Lions after the full Fifth Circuit unwound decades-old precedent that limi= ted the scope of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to "ultimate employment = decisions."

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate Ne= ws Of The Week

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By Sue Reisinger

While most of the nation was watch= ing former members of the Trump administration and their lawyers grapple wi= th Georgia's justice system this week, corporate America was still dealing = with its own legal problems. They included a National Labor Relations Board= ruling that was mostly a win for unions and a deferred prosecution agreeme= nt that imposed some "extraordinary" requirements on Teva USA.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You M= issed In London

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By Tabitha Burbidge

The past week in London has seen m= otorsport team McLaren start its engines in a claim to enforce a contract w= ith driver Alex Palou, a senior Axiom Ince partner challenge his SRA suspen= sion, and AstraZeneca face a product liability claim over COVID-19 vaccine = side effects. 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 Law360

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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: As Maui Burns, Power Companies = Land In Court

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Following one of the deadliest wil= dfires in history, which ravaged Maui and killed more than 100 people, laws= uits accusing Hawaii's power companies of negligence have already started t= o trickle in — and legal experts believe that hundreds if not th= ousands more may follow.

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COMPA= NIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Accenture PLC

Alliance Defending Freedom

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American= Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

American International Group In= c.

Bank of America Corp.

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

Boston College

C.R. Bard Inc.

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V.

Chip Ganassi Racing Teams

Courthouse News Service Inc.

Credit Suisse Group AG

DISH Network Corp.

Drexel University

Entergy Corp.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Google LLC

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Marriott International Inc.

Morgan Stanley

NFL Enterprises LLC

Organovo Holdings Inc.

Rivian Automotive LLC

Solicitors Regulation Author= ity Ltd.

Southern University Law Center

Southwest Airlines Co.

Spirit Airlines Inc.

Spotify Technology SA

Starwood Hotel & Reso= rts Worldwide Inc.

State Bar of California

Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd.

The American Institute of= Architects

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Royal Bank of Scotlan= d Group PLC

TikTok Inc.

Twitter Inc.

Volkswagen AG

Washington & Lee University


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Continuum Legal Group

Law Office of Jon Schwartz

Miller Law Associates APC

West Coast Trial Lawyers

White & Case

Wilson Sonsini

GOVE= RNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Armed Services Board of = Contract Appeals

California Supreme Court

Colorado Supreme Court

Equal Employment Opportun= ity Commission

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office of the Preside= nt

Federal Trade Commission

Georgia Department of Nat= ural Resources

Legal Services Corp.

National Labor Relations Board

North Carolina Department of= Justice

Office of Federal = Contract Compliance Programs

Texas Attorney General's Offi= ce

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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U.S. Copyright Office

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

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

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S= . District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

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

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

U.S. Securities and Excha= nge Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

World Trade Organization

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