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  Biden Moves To Dismantle Trump's Energy, Climate Legacy

  By Keith Goldberg

  President Joe Biden unveiled immediate plans Wednesday to unwind the Trump administration's energy and environme...(read more)

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  Biden Takes Office With Fewest Court Openings Since 1989

  By Andrew Kragie

  President Joe Biden took office Wednesday with the fewest judicial vacancies for a new president since 1989 and ...(read more)

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• Biden Freezes Late Trump Regs For White House Review

  By Jon Hill

  The Biden administration moved Wednesday to institute a broad "regulatory freeze" on last-minute rules issued by the Trump administration, directing agencies across the federal government to withdraw or delay action on potentially dozens of regulations.

• Hertz Gets $756M Vehicle Lease Deal OK'd In Ch. 11

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved a second interim settlement allowing Hertz to dispose of roughly 120,000 lease vehicles in exchange for paying noteholders $756 million over the next nine months, resolving for now a hotly contested legal battle over whether Hertz can sever vehicle leases subject to a master lease.

• Levandowski's Journey From Google To Trump Pardon

  By Dani Kass

  Former President Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour pardon of Anthony Levandowski comes at the end of more than four years of proceedings that almost put the former Uber Technologies executive behind bars for stealing Google’s trade secrets. Here, Law360 walks through the timeline from Levandowski leaving Google to his pardon.

• China Slaps Pompeo, 27 Other Trump Officials With Sanctions

  By Hailey Konnath

  China on Wednesday unveiled sanctions against 28 former Trump administration officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, saying they have "offended the Chinese people and seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations."

• 6 Lawyers Who Made Trump's Pardon And Commutation List

  By Emily Lever

  On his way out the door, outgoing President Donald Trump issued a final 144 pardons and commutations, including to celebrities such as Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, as well as a host of attorneys and former attorneys.

• Challenging SEC ALJs Shouldn't Be 'Illogical,' 5th Circ. Told

  By Dean Seal

  Forcing an accountant to argue her challenge about the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative law judges in front of the same ALJ that heard her case is "disturbing and illogical," the full Fifth Circuit heard on Wednesday.

• Biden Scraps Keystone XL Pipeline Permit On Day 1

  By Michael Phillis

  Newly sworn-in President Joseph Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order canceling the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline as part of his ambitious first-day agenda to tackle climate change.

• NRA Bankruptcy Judge Asks Parties To 'Ratchet Things Down'

  By Vince Sullivan

  The Texas bankruptcy judge presiding over the Chapter 11 case of the National Rifle Association asked the parties Wednesday to lower the temperature surrounding the case following several heated press statements leading up to the first-day hearing.

• Biden DOL May Ax Socially Conscious 401(k) Investing Hurdle

  By Emily Brill

  The Biden administration is considering rolling back a Trump administration rule that made it harder for pension plans and 401(k) plans to push workers' savings toward socially conscious investments, the White House indicated Wednesday in an executive order.

• Biden Fires NLRB GC Robb After He Declined To Resign

  By Braden Campbell

  President Joe Biden made good on a threat to fire National Labor Relations Board general counsel Peter Robb Wednesday after the board's top prosecutor rebuffed an earlier request to resign, the White House said.

• Tyson To Settle Chicken Price-Fixing Claims For $221M

  By Julia Arciga

  Tyson Foods has settled with three proposed classes of consumers in a long-running multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing in the broiler chicken industry for $221.5 million, the company disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Tuesday.

• Purdue Committees Get OK To Join Insurance Suits

  By Rick Archer

  A New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday gave Purdue Pharma and two of its creditor committees permission to file joint actions seeking coverage from the drugmaker's insurance carriers as the company said it is close to filing a Chapter 11 plan.