The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Sixth Circuit decision that found Enbridge Energy LP missed a statutory deadline to transfer to federal court a lawsuit from Michigan's attorney general seeking to shut down one of the company's pipelines.
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Justices Take On Enbridge Pipeline Remand Fight

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Sixth Circuit decision that found Enbridge Energy LP missed a statutory deadline to transfer to federal court a lawsuit from Michigan's attorney general seeking to shut down one of the company's pipelines.

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Justices Seek SG's View In $1.2M Roundup Verdict

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on Monsanto's petition challenging a $1.2 million jury award given to a man who claimed that the company's Roundup weed killer caused his cancer.

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Feds Defend Authority To End NY Congestion Pricing Deal

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation has told a Manhattan federal judge that courts cannot handcuff it to now-disfavored policies of earlier administrations, while New York transportation agencies maintain that the federal government is grasping at illusory legal arguments to justify trying to shut down congestion pricing.

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SUPREME COURT

Supreme Court Won't Take On CWA Suit Over Wash. Port Regs

By Rachel Riley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into a dispute between a Washington state port and an environmental group over whether citizen suits seeking to enforce state permitting conditions that go beyond the Clean Water Act can proceed in federal court.

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Brief

Justices Say Another Biofuel Waiver Case Fits In DC Circ.

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that the D.C. Circuit was the proper venue for challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of biofuel waivers to small refiners, the high court on Monday granted summary disposition in another pending case on the same subject.

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Brief

High Court Rejects Challenge To NM Nuke Storage Site

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said a mineral owner could not challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in New Mexico.

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Justices Decline To Hear Ex-Tesla Worker's Whistleblower Suit

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a petition filed by a former Tesla employee who claimed he was retaliated against for reporting various forms of alleged misconduct at a Nevada factory to both company management and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Newsom Signs CEQA Reform, Aiming To Ease Housing Crisis

By Lauren Berg

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday evening signed into law two bills overhauling the state's landmark environmental law to knock down hurdles to new development in an effort to address the state's ongoing housing shortage.

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AIR

Justices Pass On Exxon Mobil $14M Clean Air Act Dispute

By Catherine Marfin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review an en banc Fifth Circuit opinion that upheld $14.25 million in air pollution fines against Exxon Mobil Corp.

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High Court Won't Review Kentucky's Smog Plan Challenge

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the Sixth Circuit's refusal to transfer Kentucky's challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's disapproval of its ozone control plan to the D.C. Circuit, after ruling such cases belong in regional circuit courts. 

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LAND USE

Miami-Dade Fights Effort To Block 'Alligator Alcatraz'

By Carolina Bolado

Miami-Dade County on Monday urged a Florida federal judge to deny environmental groups' request for an injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's plan for the construction of a migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, arguing they have no basis for blocking the plan.

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DEALS

Hong Kong's IPO Surge Creates More Competition For US

By Tom Zanki

Hong Kong led global exchanges on new listings for operating companies in the first half of 2025, partly benefiting from a U.S.-China rift that is prompting more mainland China companies to seek secondary listings in Hong Kong, according to new data released on Monday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Bill Leaves Renewable Cos. In Dark On Farmland Reporting

A U.S. Senate bill to update disclosure requirements for foreign control of U.S. farmland does not provide much-needed guidance on how to report renewable energy development on agricultural property, leaving significant compliance risks for project developers, say attorneys at Hodgson Russ.

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Series

Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump Admin Appeals Perkins Coie Case To DC Circ.

By Daniel Connolly

The Trump administration announced in D.C. federal court on Monday that it's not giving up on its effort to punish Perkins Coie LLP through an executive order, even after losing four court rulings that found its actions in this and three similar cases are unconstitutional.

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Dunn Isaacson Now In NY, Calif. With Latest Paul Weiss Hires

By Alison Knezevich

Two more litigators from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP who have represented top technology companies and other clients in court battles have joined Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP.

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Seyfarth Lands 22 Transactional Attys From Morris Manning

By Tracey Read

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Monday that it has added a 22-lawyer transactional team from Morris Manning & Martin LLP, including 11 partners in the real estate, corporate and employee benefits groups, while the latter firm indicated it's in talks to expand its ranks.

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Trump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

By Chris Villani

The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and threatened to cut all funding from the nation's oldest university.

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Fox Rothschild Beats RICO Suit From 2 Former Clients

By Rose Krebs

A New Jersey federal judge has tossed federal racketeering and state law claims lodged against Fox Rothschild LLP by two former clients who accused the firm of "knowingly and willfully robbing their immigration clients."

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Justices To Review Persecution Standard In Immigration Appeal

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look at whether the First Circuit was right to give deference to the Board of Immigration Appeals' conclusion that a Salvadoran family failed to show it suffered persecution back home and is therefore ineligible for asylum.

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Tillis Doesn't Plan Roadblocks On Judiciary Nominations

By Courtney Bublé

Following his announcement on Sunday that he won't be seeking reelection, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who previously sank President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told Law360 on Monday that his approach to judiciary nominations won't change.

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High Court Takes GOP Challenge To Election Spending Limits

By Carolyn Muyskens

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would review caps on how much political parties can spend on elections in coordination with candidates in a case brought by Vice President JD Vance and Republican organizations.

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Analysis

Supreme Court May Shape Future Of ISP Liability In Cox Case

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to take on a $1 billion battle between major music publishers and Cox Communications Inc. could set new liability boundaries for internet service providers that have faced significant damages for allegedly not curbing users who repeatedly download songs illegally.

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Calif. Panel Chides Attys Who Hid Opponent's Inactive Status

By Emily Sawicki

In a precedential ruling, a California appellate panel found a party whose counsel's license was made inactive should have been treated as though the attorney had died or been suspended, overturning a $70,000 fee award levied against a woman who was not informed that her lawyer was inactive.

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Roundup

4 Arguments Sessions Bias Attys Should Watch in July

By Amanda Ottaway

The Third and Sixth Circuits are scheduled to hear a quartet of oral arguments in July as a fired bus driver, professor, human resources executive and school dean each plan to argue that their terminations violated federal anti-bias law. Here, Law360 looks at those cases. 

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Baker Botts

Beck Redden

Blackburn Law PLLC

Boies Schiller

Brownstone Appellate Law Firm

Bryan Cave

Chiesa Shahinian

Clement & Murphy

Coffey Burlington

Covington & Burling

Davis Polk

DeWitt LLP

Dickinson Wright

Fasken

Foley & Lardner

Foster Garvey

Fox Rothschild

Frazer PLC

Friedman Kaplan

Gordon Thomas Honeywell

Greenbaum Rowe

Hilder & Associates

Hodgson Russ

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kanner & Whiteley

Kellogg Hansen

Latham & Watkins

Martin LLP

Morasse Collins

Morris Manning

Nossaman LLP

OnderLaw

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Robbins LLP

Seyfarth Shaw

Simon Paschal

Sive Paget

Smith & Lowney

Steptoe LLP

Susman Godfrey

Wilentz Goldman

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

Amperex Technology Ltd.

Apple Inc.

BSE Limited

Bayer AG

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Cox Communications Inc.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

Democratic National Committee

Democratic Senatorial Campaign

Early Warning Services LLC

Earthjustice

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Holtec International Inc

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

JM Eagle

LVMH Moet Hennessy

Lee & Associates Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Monsanto Co.

Nasdaq Inc.

National Republican Congressional Committee

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Public Citizen Inc.

Puget Soundkeeper Alliance

QUALCOMM Inc.

RCN Telecom Services LLC

Recording Industry Association of America Inc.

Rural County Representatives of California

Sierra Club

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Stanford University

State Bar of California

Tesla Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The Philadelphia Inquirer LLC

United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America

University of Toledo

Warner Bros. Records Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Farm Service Agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Election Commission

Federal Highway Administration

Fish and Wildlife Service

New York Attorney General's Office

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio