Legal Saga Over $38B ETE, Williams Deal Heats Up

Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to face a $641 million suit brought by environmentalists over emissions at its Baytown, Texas, refinery, the Fifth Circuit said Friday in an opinion that panned portions of the trial court’s ruling in Exxon's favor as “irreconcilably inconsistent.”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday signed legislation that would help Atlantic City recover from a crippling financial spate of poor gambling revenue and successful tax appeals, ending fears that a legislative stalemate would drive the city into insolvency.

A Delaware jury determined Friday that the technology used by Google Earth to display refined images of the planet does not infringe the patent of a German tech company and found the patent to be invalid over prior art.

Business magnate Ira Rennert's Renco Group Inc. filed a lawsuit Friday in New York that seeks to thwart bondholders’ ability to collect on a $211 million judgment over allegations that Rennert and his investment holding firm helped drive the company’s magnesium production unit MagCorp into bankruptcy.

The Ninth Circuit on Friday tossed a suit by former leaders of California's Timbisha Shoshone Tribe that challenged the U.S. Department of the Interior's decision to recognize a new tribal council, ruling that the tribe’s recent adoption of a new constitution with revised membership requirements mooted the appeal.

Former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP executive director Stephen DiCarmine on Friday dropped his longtime counsel at Bryan Cave LLP in favor of Seward & Kissel LLP, for a coming retrial over a purported scheme to con the law firm’s financial backers out of tens of millions of dollars before it collapsed in 2012.