The US Supreme Court is set to consider whether federal judges must dismiss employment cases subject to mandatory arbitration or whether they should instead pause them pending the outcome of private dispute resolution proceedings.

John Koenigsknecht and David Stone have joined Crowell & Moring as partners in Chicago, the firm said Thursday.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton can be punished by the state bar, if the bar proves his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results was meritless, a Texas court of appeals ruled late Thursday.

Schneider Electric SE is in talks about a potential deal with $17 billion engineering software maker <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018e-f6a0-d583-afbf-f6fc065b0001","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Bentley Systems Inc., in what would be one of the biggest takeovers of a US company by a French corporation.

Twelve jurors were selected for Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, where the former president is accused of falsifying business records to conceal a sex scandal before the 2016 election. Picking the panel was an arduous process: Judge <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018e-f6f5-d583-afbf-f6fdfe880001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Juan Merchan, prosecutors and defense attorneys vetted almost 200 prospective jurors over three days to weed out people who might be biased one way or the other. Most who were excused said they couldn’t be fair.

The Biden administration on Friday finalized a plan to prevent oil development across more than half of the US government’s mammoth petroleum reserve in Alaska and set the stage to block road construction essential to opening a copper mine in the state.

Hexcel Corp. thought a settlement closed the door on cleanup costs at a defunct chemical plant, but a slippery definition for the word “adjacent” has left the door open for New Jersey to collect new damages.

The US Forest Service approved a new Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest plan without considering how extensive logging will effect endangered bats, conservation groups said in a federal complaint.

The Biden administration is using emergency powers to authorize widespread sales of higher-ethanol E15 gasoline this summer, following a strategy it employed the previous two years.

The chief executive officer of the world’s main verifier of corporate emissions plans says he “deeply regrets” the confusion that followed a recent update that was widely interpreted as permission to ratchet up the use of carbon credits.

Battery-material maker <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018e-f672-d583-afbf-f6fe404a0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Novonix, electric vehicle charger manufacturer <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018e-f672-d583-afbf-f6fe404a0001","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Wallbox and rare earth producer <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018e-f672-d583-afbf-f6fe404a0002","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">MP Materials Corp. were among about 35 recipients of clean energy tax credits totaling nearly $2 billion that were announced Friday by the Biden administration.

Two commonly detected and well-known PFAS are hazardous substances under the nation’s Superfund law, the EPA announced Friday, through a rule that’s intended to protect public health by cleaning up contaminated sites but expected to increase litigation.

Standard Chartered Plc is facing about £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) worth of investor claims at a London trial over allegations it systematically breached Iranian sanctions to win new business.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recent request for Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.’s diversity, equity, and inclusion documents after serious defects were found in airplane parts it manufactured for Boeing Co. nods to a newer strategy to challenge corporate DEI policies.

The chief executive officer of the world’s main verifier of corporate emissions plans says he “deeply regrets” the confusion that followed a recent update that was widely interpreted as permission to ratchet up the use of carbon credits.

More than a hundred students were arrested for trespassing at <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/321034Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018e-f6c4-d583-afbf-f6dcb2030000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Columbia University after the Ivy League school called the New York Police Department to dismantle tents and disperse a pro-Palestinian protest on campus Thursday.

John Koenigsknecht and David Stone have joined Crowell & Moring as partners in Chicago, the firm said Thursday.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/PARA%20US%20Equity/PGEO","_id":"0000018e-f6a5-d583-afbf-f6fd96080000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Paramount Global’s controlling shareholder Shari Redstone has a tough decision looming: whether to let other stockholders have a say if she agrees to sell her family’s holdings to producer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018e-f6a5-d583-afbf-f6fd96080002","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">David Ellison and merge the film and TV giant with his <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1400604D%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018e-f6a5-d583-afbf-f6fd96080003","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Skydance Media.

Hexcel Corp. thought a settlement closed the door on cleanup costs at a defunct chemical plant, but a slippery definition for the word “adjacent” has left the door open for New Jersey to collect new damages.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recent request for Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.’s diversity, equity, and inclusion documents after serious defects were found in airplane parts it manufactured for Boeing Co. nods to a newer strategy to challenge corporate DEI policies.

The US owner of an Israeli company may proceed with his lawsuit challenging regulations put into effect by a tax on global intangible low-taxed income because a federal trial court needs to flesh out more arguments, the D.C. Circuit said Friday.

The US Supreme Court is set to consider whether federal judges must dismiss employment cases subject to mandatory arbitration or whether they should instead pause them pending the outcome of private dispute resolution proceedings.

The US Supreme Court signaled interest in hearing a case over Cornell University’s retirement plan by asking the school to respond to a petition asking how relationships between benefit plans and their service providers can be challenged under ERISA.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton can be punished by the state bar, if the bar proves his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results was meritless, a Texas court of appeals ruled late Thursday.