IN BRIEF: DOI appeals court ruling halting Montana coal mine expansion reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Securities litigator Aric Wu is taking his practice to Cooley after 22 years at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, helping the Palo Alto-based firm continue to grow its litigation practice in New York.
Wu was elected to Gibson Dunn’s partnership just as the financial crisis was unfolding in 2008 and went on to co-chair its subprime working group, with a client roster of financial institutions facing securities claims tied to the Great Recession.
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Conservation groups sued the Army Corps of Engineers in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, accusing it of rushing its approval of a $220 million flood-control project in the Mississippi’s South Delta during the waning days of the Trump administration.
American Rivers, the Sierra Club and others say the Corps when approving the Yazoo Backwater Area Pumps Project in January refused to consider, in contravention to the National Environmental Protection Act, less environmentally damaging practicable alternatives to building the large pumping station to protect an oft-flooded 135,000-acre area.
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Cigna seeks $1 8 bln merger termination fee from Anthem in top Delaware court reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Robinhood on Wednesday argued that the presiding officer tasked with hearing charges from Massachusetts securities regulators that the online brokerage encourages inexperienced investors to place risky trades must recuse himself due to potential conflicts.
Timothy Burke, a lawyer for Robinhood at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, argued that Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin’s case was “novel” and that the presiding officer was involved in the recent adoption of a rule at the heart of the case.
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