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• November 17, 2025

  Sunoco Gets $75M Knocked Off $180M Oil Royalty Ruling

  The Tenth Circuit on Monday partially upheld a nearly $180 million judgment against Sunoco Inc. for withholding late interest payments on oil royalties to Oklahoma landowners, leaving in place a $103.9 million compensatory damages award for the landowners but striking $75 million in punitive damages.

• November 17, 2025

  Shell Asks NY Court To Approve Challenge Of LNG Arbitration

  Oil and gas giant Shell is urging a New York state court to vacate an international arbitration award issued to a liquefied natural gas firm, saying the arbitral hearing revealed that the American producer and exporter withheld key documents in the parties' fight over LNG cargo shipments.

• November 17, 2025

  Judge Pauses $3B Bond Enforcement Amid Citgo Auction

  A New York federal judge has paused enforcement of nearly $3 billion in defaulted Venezuelan-issued bonds until a winning bidder for the country's most important seizable asset — the parent company of the oil giant Citgo — is chosen in parallel proceedings in Delaware.

• November 17, 2025

  AGs Seek To Freeze EPA Solar Grant Funds During Challenge

  A coalition of states asked a Washington federal judge to maintain federal money for Solar for All grants during the pendency of their lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to kill the program, arguing that they're likely to prevail on their claims that the agency can't legally claw back funds Congress already obligated.

• November 17, 2025

  Judge Questions Eaton's Role In Lowered Credit Rating

  Tax Court Judge Albert Lauber questioned an expert for Eaton on Monday about how he arrived at a lowered credit rating for the U.S. company in a report he prepared in January 2013, shortly after it acquired an Irish-based global electrical products manufacturer and inverted.

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