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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 Highlighting the economic and energy stakes surrounding secure management of U.S. nuclear plants’ spent nuclear fuel, attorneys in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP’s Energy and Government Contracts & Disputes practices successfully helped U.S. utility clients sue the federal government for breach-of-contract in 2007, resulting in more than $174 million in aggregate damages awards from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
 The law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., is announced a substantial verdict handed down in November in an asbestos lawsuit on behalf of an 73-year-old pipefitter from Texas City and his wife of more than 50 years. The verdict includes compensatory damages against Houston-based Union Carbide Corp. and Columbus, Ohio-based Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. and punitive damages against Hexion.
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
 Climate change is emerging as a critical policy area around the world, affecting everything from business and industry to consumers and government and regulatory authorities. With the launch of a Climate Change initiative, the law firm of Miller Canfield is among the first in the Midwest to assemble an interdisciplinary team dedicated to climate change related matters.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
 The Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School announced that The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Bush administration violated the law by ignoring global warming when it set national gas mileage standards for SUVs and pickup trucks.
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