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Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Is Personal Information of Retirement Plan Participants an ERISA Plan Asset?
A little more than one year ago, we reported on a settlement (Cassell et al. v. Vanderbilt University, et al.) involving the alleged wrongful use of personal information belonging to…
Washington Energy Report
Shell Seeks FERC Interpretation of PJM Tariff to Assist on Texas Breach of Contract Claim
By Katherine O'Konski, Miles Kiger
On May 29, 2020, Shell Energy North America (US), L.P. (“Shell”) filed a petition asking FERC to interpret PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (“PJM’s”) Tariff provisions regarding bilateral transfers of Financial Transmission…
China Justice Observer
COVID-19, Enforcing Foreign Arbitral Awards and Force Majeure
How would Chinese courts view arbitral awards where foreign tribunals reject a force majeure claim connected to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic? In our previous post, the China Council for…
Texas Bar Blog
Houston Bar Foundation new leadership takes office, attorneys honored
[caption id="attachment_15027" align="alignleft" width="500"] Susan L. Bickley, of Blank Rome, took office as 2020 chair of the Houston Bar Foundation on February 25, succeeding Travis Torrence, of Shell Oil Company.…
China Law Vision
China’s Supreme Court Enunciated the Non-Arbitrability of Antitrust Civil Disputes
For a few years, the topic of whether antitrust civil disputes could be arbitrable had been hotly debated in China. There were few precedents in connection with this issue for…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Issues with Donors, Issues with Donees
Previous posts in this space discussed the fallout from Jeffrey Epstein's donations. But just over the past week there have been a flurry of other stories relating to both donors…
Global Workplace Insider
Legal advice privilege in employment
By Amanda Sanders (UK), Nick Howard
A recent decision in the UK Court of Appeal has provided guidance in the area of privilege in employment claims. In Curless v Shell International Ltd, the Court of Appeal…
Supreme Court Update
Order List
Greetings, Court fans! As I indicated in Part I of the Update, the Court has recently added a number of cases to its docket for the 2009 Term (bringing its…
Supreme Court Update
Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. (04-1329), Texaco, Inc. v. Dagher (04-805), Shell Oil Co. v. Dagher (04-814) and Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc. ("NOW III") (04-1244)
Greetings, Court fans! There were two opinions yesterday, and one more today (all unanimous!), but what everyone's really talking about is yesterday's oral argument in Marshall v. Marshall, concerning the…
Law & The Environment
EPA Proposes to Eliminate Oil and Gas Methane Rules: Just Another Brick in the Deregulatory Wall
By Seth Jaffe
Last week, EPA proposed to eliminate regulation of methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. The most noteworthy response to the proposal came from the large producers. ExxonMobil, Shell,…