Tristan Duncan and Tom Grever, partners at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP in Kansas City, represented power companies that recently won a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The ruling in Michigan v. EPA held that regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency must not bypass doing a cost-benefit analysis when considering new regulations. Agencies should not be allowed to enact rules that do more harm than good when looked at from a fiscal viewpoint, the ruling says. The case put on…
The local chapter of the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Cincinnati AFL-CIO have filed an injunction to block the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority from making a decision on Cincinnati’s streetcar operations contract at its specially scheduled meeting.
SORTA’s planning and operations committee is scheduled to meet at 8:30 a.m. Monday followed by a SORTA board meeting in which the streetcar’s operations and maintenance contract would be approved. The temporary restraining order and…
BP Exploration and Production Inc. will pay Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and the federal government $18.7 billion in damages and penalties related to the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico spill.
Of that total, BP will pay $5.5 billion in Clean Water Act penalties, which will be payable over the next 15 years; $7.1 billion to the federal government and the five Gulf States over the next 15 years for natural resource damages; a total of $4.9 billion in economic damages to the…
Is electromagnetic interference enough to justify disabling AM radio in the BMW i3? Saab parent NEVS begins joint ventures to build cars in Tianjin, China. Renault upgrades its Cléon factory to build the Zoe's R240 electric motor.
The Arizona Court of Appeals has struck down Scottsdale’s ban on sign walkers who use sandwich board and other signs to promote businesses on street corners.
The decision stems from a legal fight between the city of Scottsdale, the Arizona Legislature and libertarian Goldwater Institute over city ordinances blocking sign walkers.
“The court decided that Scottsdale can reasonably regulate sign walkers, but cannot ban them. That’s the right balance,” said Clint Bolick, vice president of litigation…
Foodies in Honolulu may not have to far to find a healthy amount of restaurants, breweries and farmers markets to try, according to an analysis by NerdWallet, which ranked Hawaii's capital as the 11th best city nationwide for foodies.
In all, the NerdWallet analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found that there are about 240 restaurants per 100,000 Honolulu residents.
The personal finance website's analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data also found that there are also at least four farmers…
