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24-1045
Appellate - 3rd Circuit
3440 Other Civil Rights
Two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that erected stricter boundaries on federal environmental reviews and permitting highlighted an action-packed 2025 for energy and environmental litigation. Here, Law360 looks back at this year's most consequential court decisions in energy and environmental law.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday sought to continue the appeal of a Third Circuit decision invalidating the state Public Utilities Commission's denial of a permit for a transmission project after the agency's chairman said he feared the appeal's outcome could weaken state authority.
The Third Circuit ruled in a precedential decision on Friday that the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission's blocking of a transmission line project in the state was unconstitutional because it hampered federal objectives, affirming a lower court's ruling that the commission lacked the authority to halt construction.
Courtroom showdowns between the Trump administration and blue states over U.S. energy and climate change policy will dominate the energy litigation landscape for the rest of 2025. Here is what the energy industry will be watching closely in the second half of the year.
Mark Christie, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ripped into PJM Interconnection LLC on Thursday, saying the regional transmission organization is ignoring history by arguing that its project approval preempts states' ability to deny a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
Federal courts will be addressing disputes that could reshape the authority of several U.S. energy regulators and subsequently impact the future of power development in the nation. Here are the biggest lawsuits on Law360’s radar that energy attorneys must watch in 2025.
Third Circuit judges appeared wary on Thursday of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission's argument that its take on the necessity of a transmission project trumps a federal agency's determination, at one point questioning how any such project could be completed if the court accepted its argument.
The Third Circuit is set to determine if BetMGM online casino should face a lawsuit claiming it violated New Jersey consumer protection and gambling laws for allegedly enticing a man with a gambling problem to play its games.
December's appellate forecast calls for a squall of showdowns in a tiny time period before the holidays, including arguments involving recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, Big Tech's patents and popular purveyors of health food. In addition, winds of change are swirling around the White House's litigation posture and judicial nominations, and we'll quiz you on the latter in this edition of Wheeling & Appealing.
Even after an action-packed first half of 2024, plenty of high-stakes energy litigation remains, including a new twist in the prolonged battle over climate change lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, as well as cases that could influence federal climate change policy. Here are several cases energy attorneys will be watching in the second half of the year.