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Owens v. FirstEnergy Corp. et al

  1. July 18, 2025

    CORRECTION: FirstEnergy Investors File Unredacted Discovery Brief

    Editor's note: An article published Friday incorrectly referred to a court filing as new. The filing, which was a motion to compel discovery, was originally made in July 2023, but with redactions. It was refiled Thursday with the redactions removed. The redacted material described memoranda sought by the plaintiffs in the matter, among other things. A special master granted the motion in November 2023, and a federal judge in April 2024 overruled objections to the special master's order.

  2. July 16, 2025

    Ex-FirstEnergy Execs Can't Sway Judge With Jury-Taint Fears

    An Ohio federal judge has rejected objections that former FirstEnergy Corp. executives facing criminal charges raised over recommended changes to a protective order in a securities class action against them and the company.

  3. May 01, 2025

    Ex-FirstEnergy Execs Object To Possible Sanctions Order

    Two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives indicted over their alleged roles in a $1 billion bribery scandal objected Thursday to the possibility they could be sanctioned for failing to produce certain information in a civil suit brought by FirstEnergy investors, calling language in a special master's report "inappropriate" and potentially prejudicial.

  4. November 21, 2024

    FirstEnergy Investors Slam Ex-Execs' Info 'Bogeyman' Story

    FirstEnergy shareholders have accused two former executives of the energy company of exploiting confidentiality rules by seeking to shield documents relevant to their suit over a stock plummet that followed a massive bribery scheme, telling an Ohio federal judge he should reject the executives' "informational bogeyman" story.

  5. October 10, 2024

    Ohio Seeks To Halt Depositions In FirstEnergy Investor Suit

    The state of Ohio wants to halt certain depositions and other discovery in a securities suit stemming from the FirstEnergy bribery scandal, saying it could interfere with criminal charges against two of the utility company's former executives, according to an intervenor motion filed Thursday.

  6. July 12, 2024

    FirstEnergy Denied 6th Circ. Appeal In Doc Dispute

    Scandal-plagued utility company FirstEnergy Corp. lost another attempt to shield internal investigation documents from a class of investors as well as its former CEO on Friday when an Ohio federal judge denied the company's request to appeal the dispute to the Sixth Circuit on a "logically fallacious" premise.

  7. May 31, 2024

    FirstEnergy Denied Bid To Boost Objection To Discovery Order

    An Ohio federal judge on Friday denied FirstEnergy Corp.'s objections to not having a chance to further support its bid to shield internal investigative documents from a class of investors and two of its indicted former executives, saying the objections are moot because they've already been overruled.

  8. May 23, 2024

    FirstEnergy Wants 6th Circ. To Shield Bribe-Probe Docs

    FirstEnergy Corp. is pursuing the Sixth Circuit's input into its request to shield internal investigative documents from a class of investors and from two of its indicted former executives, saying the documents contain privileged legal advice given in the wake of a $1 billion bribery scandal.

  9. February 02, 2024

    FirstEnergy Rips Investor Clarification Bid Amid Cert. Appeal

    FirstEnergy Corp. told an Ohio federal judge that investors are making an "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" bid for clarification on a class certification ruling in their suit over the company's role in a high-profile bribery scandal, saying such a clarification in the middle of an ongoing appeal would require an unnecessary, additional round of briefing.

  10. January 11, 2024

    FirstEnergy Investors Seek Damages Clarification In Cert. Row

    FirstEnergy Corp. investors asked an Ohio federal judge who certified their class claims stemming from the company's role in a high-profile bribery scandal to clarify that the court didn't assume the damages methodologies for claims under different federal securities statutes were interchangeable, as FirstEnergy has claimed in its appeal to the Sixth Circuit.