Georgia's top court upheld the constitutionality of the state's $250,000 punitive damages cap Wednesday, affirming a trial court decision to slash a $50 million jury award for the estate of a deceased woman who was sexually assaulted as a teen at a behavioral health facility.
Several people suing Becton Dickinson and Co. over ethylene oxide emissions from a medical equipment sterilization facility in Georgia will be allowed to dismiss their federal law claims to instead pursue the suit in state court, in a move the company described as blatant gamesmanship and forum shopping.
Grange Insurance Co. has asked a Georgia federal judge to dismiss a half-dozen companies that potentially had a stake in a declaratory action suit claiming it has no duty to indemnify or defend commercial bakery Benson's Inc. in an underlying environmental nuisance suit in state court.
The U.S. Department of the Interior is proposing its first offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, part of a Biden administration goal to expand offshore wind opportunities and develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.
Several Republican lawmakers wrote to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler on Wednesday, demanding information and records about a proposed climate disclosure rule they said vastly exceeds the commission's authority and would harm the economy.