Ed Casey, Alex Akerman, and Brian Boone are noted for representing Southern California Edison in successfully opposing a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to review a U.S. Ninth Circuit decision dismissing a lawsuit challenging the company’s storage of spent nuclear fuel at its decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
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December 6, 2021
Law360 | Justices Won’t Review Challenge to Nuke Plant Shuttering
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In the News December 6, 2021Bloomberg Law | Justices Turn Down California Nuclear Waste Cleanup CaseAlston & Bird is noted for representing Southern California Edison in successfully opposing a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to review a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling dismissing a lawsuit challenging the company’s storage of spent nuclear fuel at its decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
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Advisories March 1, 2023Labor & Employment Advisory: Ninth Circuit Green-Lights Employers’ Continued Use of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements in CaliforniaOur Labor & Employment Group examines why the Ninth Circuit reversed itself and ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a California law that prohibited arbitration agreements as a condition of employment.
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January 27, 2023“High Court Slack Case Not Likely to Broadly Affect Issuers,” Law360, January 27, 2023.This article analyzes the most recent appeal heard by the U.S. Supreme Court involving federal securities laws, Slack Technologies v. Pirani, which deals with the question of whether companies face potential liability under the 1933 Act for shares made available to the public via a direct listing.
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Advisories December 20, 2022Securities Litigation Advisory: Supreme Court to Decide Whether the 1933 Act’s Strict Liability Provisions Apply to Direct ListingsAlston & Bird’s Securities Litigation Group analyzes the issues facing the U.S. Supreme Court in an appeal that will determine whether companies face potential liability under the 1933 Act for shares made available to the public via a direct listing.
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General Publications June 7, 2022“Split Looms over 9th Circ. Injunctive Relief on False Labeling,” Law360, June 7, 2022.In the 2016 Spokeo Inc. v. Robins decision, the U.S. Supreme Court observed that for a plaintiff to unlock the doors to federal court, they must demonstrate that they suffered an injury-in-fact that is “concrete and particularized and actual or imminent” to satisfy Article III standing. This article discusses injunctive relief claims in false labeling cases in the Ninth Circuit.
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