In an issue of first impression in Texas, the state’s highest court will hear arguments in December 2013 in a case involving a party’s claim to recover stigma damages following the cleanup of environmental contamination to standards considered...
Friday’s meetings continued the trend of informal consultations and contacts groups, slowing striving towards substantive progress. The closure of the 39th SBSTA and SBI meetings, and the associated closing plenaries, provided an excellent...
An Apex Clean Energy unit will sell the remaining 100 megawatts of wind energy capacity from its 300-megawatt Balko wind project through a power purchase agreement with the Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Apex said Tuesday. The deal, struck...
A growing number of states are passing Green Chemistry laws, e.g.; California, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, and Washington State. These laws present a challenge to manufacturers who distribute and sell products into the 50 states....
In a recent interview, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition chairwoman Deborah Feinstein announced that targeting pay-for-delay arrangements by pharmaceutical companies would continue as a top priority for the FTC. Pay-for-delay...
Goodwin Procter LLP Hosts Forum On Non-Practicing Entities - On October 9, 2013, more than 45 leaders from private practice, industry, government, and academia gathered at the New York office of Goodwin Procter LLP to participate in an...
Businesses often request legal assistance with breach of contract disputes. They say that there can be no doubt that their counterparty breached their contract, and they know that they are entitled to damages for the breach. But some are concerned...
Barger & Wolen partners Richard De La Mora and Richard Hopkins were both quoted in a Nov. 14, 2013, Daily Journal article, Hospital insurance premium regulations bid draws criticism, about a proposed ballot initiative intended to regulate insurance...
A federal judge recently ruled that BP must pay $130 million in damages to victims of its 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, which killed 11 rig workers. BP has already paid more than $560 million to claimants since June 2012, and it...
One of the things that commentators incessantly complain about when it comes to the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by the Department of Justice (DOJ) is that there are still companies which violate the law. They are simply...
