November 21, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Friday denied a request for a rehearing en banc of a ruling blocking FirstEnergy investors from accessing documents prepared by BigLaw firms investigating the company's $1 billion bribery scandal, after previously denying a panel rehearing and a motion for clarification on the ruling.
November 19, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday denied a request from FirstEnergy investors to clarify a ruling blocking them from accessing documents prepared by BigLaw firms investigating the company's $1 billion bribery scandal.
November 14, 2025
A week after the Sixth Circuit declined to reconsider a ruling blocking FirstEnergy investors from accessing documents prepared by BigLaw firms investigating the company's $1 billion bribery scandal, investors have once again asked the court to clarify its decision, arguing that it is "premised on a clear error of fact."
November 06, 2025
The Sixth Circuit said Thursday it would not reconsider a ruling blocking FirstEnergy investors from accessing documents prepared by BigLaw firms investigating the company's $1 billion bribery scandal, and clarified that the decision also applies to depositions taken in the proposed class action.
October 31, 2025
FirstEnergy Corp. asked the Sixth Circuit to make clear that investors suing it over a billion-dollar bribery scandal aren't entitled to depose its directors, officers and employees about internal investigations undertaken by Jones Day and Squire Patton Boggs.
October 08, 2025
FirstEnergy investors asked the Sixth Circuit Wednesday to clarify a recent ruling blocking them from accessing internal investigation documents in a lawsuit over a $1 billion bribery scandal, arguing that the company is holding up depositions due to its misreading of the court's opinion.
October 03, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Friday vacated a district court's order forcing FirstEnergy to disclose to investors its internal investigation materials amid a $1 billion bribery scandal involving an Ohio lawmaker, ruling that the materials were "clearly" protected by the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine.
August 20, 2025
A group of FirstEnergy Corp. investors is urging the Sixth Circuit not to hear a dispute over their access to internal investigation documents produced in the wake of a $1 billion bribery scandal, saying the documents weren't privileged and that granting the appeal would be "unprecedented."
August 07, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday prevented shareholders of FirstEnergy Corp. from immediately accessing investigative documents prepared by BigLaw firms in the wake of a $1 billion bribery scandal, ruling that the utility company was likely to succeed in its claims that the disclosures were protected by attorney-client privilege.
August 06, 2024
Dozens of law firms have signed on to an amicus curiae brief urging the Sixth Circuit to reverse a decision in a FirstEnergy shareholder litigation, the latest voices in the legal, insurance and business communities to call on the appellate court to reverse an Ohio federal judge's ruling they warn will threaten attorney-client privilege.