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Antitrust Alert
On Heels of European Raids, Energy Companies Face U.S. Class Actions
by Megan Morley White Oaks Fund LP, an Illinois private placement fund, filed a class action suit last week against BP PLC, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Statoil ASA in…
Subject to Inquiry
Defamation Claims Increase Costs of Cooperation with Government Investigations
By Government Investigations Group
Disclosing the results of a company’s internal investigation to government investigators is always fraught with potential problems. The most obvious is the danger of waiving attorney-client privilege and work product…
La Revue
Le Roland Garros du « caractère sensible » : validation d’une analyse « multicritères » de l’affectation du commerce entre États membres
Cour d’appel, Paris, Pôle 5, Chambre 7, 28 mars 2013, RG n° 2011/18245 La décision n° 08-D-30 [1] du 4 décembre 2008 du Conseil de la concurrence (devenu Autorité de la concurrence) a été confirmée par la Cour…
Surf and Turf Law
Tough Month for Environmental Groups in Ninth Circuit – Shell Offshore v. Greenpeace
Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals shot down the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on a piracy theory (my post here). This week, Greenpeace is in the hotseat. This…
ContractsProf Blog
Teaching Sales 4: What Could Be Better than Nanakuli?
In theory, if you are looking for a case to illustrate the UCC's potential liberality in letting in trade usage evidence to modify a written contract, nothing could be better…
PropertyProf Blog
Osofsky on Litigation Over Oil Extraction and Rights Violations in Nigeria
By propertyprof
Hari Osofsky (Minnesota) has posted Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Reflections on Litigation Over Oil Extraction and Rights Violations in Nigeria (Journal of Human Rights and the Environment) on SSRN. …
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
SCOTUS Oral Argument Transcript in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Today the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kiobelv. Royal Dutch Shell (10-1491) for the secondtime. The transcript is available here.Parenthetically, there are some interesting exchanges forfolks who are teaching…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Emerging Issues in the Arctic Part 7: Coda
Last spring, I set out to blog about developments in the Arctic, hoping to identify theoretical perspectives, policy angles, legal conflicts, cool technologies and news items of interest. It was easy…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
In Case You Missed It — Week of September 9
- InsideEPA reported that EPA issued a compliance order permitting Shell Oil Company to do exploratory drilling in the arctic, even though it is expected to violate its Clean Air…
Washington Energy Report
Shell Announces First Commercial-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage Facility for Canadian Oil Sands
On September 5, 2012, Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”) announced it would be moving forward with the Quest carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) project in the oil sands near northern…