Attorneys from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Pomerantz LLP and other firms were awarded about $20 million in attorneys' fees from a Tennessee federal court on Monday for representing CoreCivic Inc. investors in a securities class action that accused the private prison corporation of misleading investors about the quality of CoreCivic's correctional facilities.
Osage Nation members are fighting the federal government's bid to end their appeal of a tossed $100 million proposed class action over the distribution of oil and gas royalties, arguing that the federal government is using contradictory, previously rejected arguments about its trust duty responsibility for Osage headright owners.
An Australian mining company filed an arbitration charge against the Republic of the Congo on Thursday, accusing the central African country of taking over two iron ore mining projects and giving them to a "Chinese-linked" company.
The federal government pushed for the dismissal of a Rhode Island tribe's $30 million suit over a tossed agreement to mitigate damage to four important tribal sites during a highway bridge construction project, arguing that the tribe lacks constitutional standing to bring its suit against the Federal Highway Administration.
New Mexico's Attorney General urged the Tenth Circuit to vacate the dismissal of a data collection suit against Google, arguing that the tech giant had wrongly interpreted a federal regulation to get the suit tossed and that Google's proof of compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act was insubstantial.