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Deepwater Horizon MDL recent opinions on admiralty jurisdiction and indemnification

  • Sedgwick LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2012

Judge Barbier, presiding over the Deepwater Horizon Multi-District Litigation (MDL) in the Eastern District of Louisiana, recently issued a series of important opinions regarding the interplay between federal admiralty jurisdiction, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), and state law as well as the application of offshore indemnification clauses

Court rejects use of alter ego doctrine to “borrow” contractor license

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2012

California’s Contractors’ State License Law, Business & Professions Code Section 7000 et seq., requires contractors to be licensed unless they are exempt from licensure

Federal court delays release of power plant data under FOIA

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 18 2012

A federal court in Montana has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to release a document regarding PPL Montana LLC ’s Colstrip power plant pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOI A) request until the court rules on the company’s claim that the document contains trade secrets and is therefore exempt from release

Connecticut High Court rules environmental commission cannot use reverse veil piercing

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2012

The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that the state environmental protection commissioner cannot reach a corporation’s assets to satisfy an outstanding judgment against a shareholder

Seller that lawfully terminated purchase agreement for environmental issues breached duty of good faith and fair dealing

  • Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

In Hometown Folks, LLC, v. S & B Wilson, Inc., et al., -- F.3d --, 2011 WL 2566825 (C.A. 6, June 30, 2011 (Tenn.)), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held, under Tennessee law, that a seller of several Burger King franchises could lawfully terminate the purchase agreement because of environmental issues

California court dismisses ucl claim over fiji water

  • Barger & Wolen LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2011

Sometimes a green drop is just a green drop

FAQs regarding criminal search warrants

  • Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 25 2011

is a general counsel’s worst nightmarethe 8:00 a.m. call from a plant manager saying there are 25 federal agents at the office with a search warrant seizing the company’s business records, taking employees aside to question them, and pulling samples from the plant’s holding tanks and wastewater discharge

Evidence was insufficient to support inference of causation or breach of duty

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 8 2010

John Clifford, III, had a contract with Monsanto to farm seed corn

Safety is critical: Ohio managers and company face criminal charges due to worker’s death from workplace accident

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2010

The Ohio Attorney General's Office recently raised the stakes considerably for Ohio companies with regard to worker safety by obtaining criminal indictments from a Butler County grand jury against United Oil Recovery Services Inc

Ninth Circuit affirms conviction of corporate officer

  • Thompson Coburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2010

In a recent case, prosecutors charged both a company and a corporate officer of that company with illegally storing hazardous waste in violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

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