Recognition of Foreign Judgments in the United States (VIDEO)
President Donald Trump announced on Feb. 26, 2025, that he was reversing the authorization granted to Chevron Corp. and its subsidiaries (Chevron) by the Biden Administration as a concession aimed at promoting free elections...more
On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Venezuela General License 41A, “Authorizing the Wind Down of Certain Transactions Related to Chevron Corporation’s Joint...more
On February 20, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New Jersey granted the CFPB’s motion to withdraw its amicus brief, but denied the Bureau’s request to strike the brief from the record. The CFPB submitted...more
Recent raging winter storms have caved in streets, wrecked piers, collapsed homes and apartment buildings, and submerged property up and down California’s coastline. As sea levels continue to rise from climate change,...more
Chevron announced on Friday its plans to relocate its headquarters from Northern California to Houston, Texas. Chevron first began doing business in California nearly 150 years ago in 1879 with the incorporation of the...more
Congress must adjust to the demise of the Chevron Deference doctrine by drastically improving its regulatory expertise, witnesses told a House Committee on July 23....more
In a pair of 6-3 decisions issued Friday and Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt back-to-back blows to the administrative state. First, it ruled on Friday in Loper Bright that federal courts can no longer defer to federal...more
We already have published a short blog about the Supreme Court’s opinion issued on Friday, July 28 in Loper Bright Enterprises et al v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al, No. 22-451....more
On June 28, 2024, the United States Supreme Court, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo ended four decades of deference to federal agency action under Chevron and ushered in a new era of administrative law. What Loper...more
As reported to our readers in August 2023, the California Supreme Court in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. County of Monterey, (2023) Cal. LEXIS 4349, struck down a Monterey County initiative that would have banned oil and gas...more
Chevron is part of a group of old-school fossil-fuel companies investing hundreds of millions of dollars into geothermal-energy projects aiming to use fracking-type technology to find and access underground heat — heat that...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS have released final rules on Inflation Reduction Act provisions that aim to expand the reach of the clean energy tax credits. The Act created the new elective pay and...more
The federal courts deference to government agencies expertise and discretion (called Chevron deference) may well be at an end. Wednesday's oral arguments on January 17, 2024, before the United States Supreme Court in Loper...more
A California corporation begins existence upon the filing of its articles of incorporation. Cal. Corp. Code § 200(c). The filing of initial articles of incorporation starts a 90 day clock on the filing of the newly hatched...more
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. ...more
James P. McLoughlin Jr., Mary Katherine Stukes and Pierce Werner of Moore & Van Allen discuss the arguments, background and questions surrounding the Supreme Court's upcoming review of the Chevron doctrine. On May 1, 2023,...more
Most states call it a third-party beneficiary contract. Leave it to Louisiana to be different. In Adams v. Chevron USA Inc., the plaintiffs claimed that oilfield pipe-cleaning activities of Chevron and others contaminated...more
Last week, a number of Democratic Senators filed an amicus brief in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, arguing that the Supreme Court should not overrule Chevron. The first heading under the argument section of the brief...more
One of the most significant areas of the law for businesses is administrative law. From questions about a new industry-specific regulation to marshaling a defense against enforcement proceedings, any entity that is subject to...more
In a civil suit filed in Oregon state court in June 2023, an Oregon county is suing more than a dozen large oil, gas and coal companies, seeking more than $50 million in damages, in connection with a 2021 “heat dome” and...more