8/25/2025 12:46:26 PM EPA and Other Agencies Publish Guidance on Referrals for Potential Criminal Enforcement By Sean Toomey Colin North Greg Johnson Clare Bienvenu +1 more... Show less On July 31, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a notice in the Federal Register, titled “Guidance on...
7/9/2025 2:55:17 PM Changes in Approach to Criminal Liability: Trump’s Executive Order Regarding Criminal Regulatory Offenses By Sean Toomey Colin North Greg Johnson Clare Bienvenu +1 more... Show less On May 9, 2025, the Trump Administration published an executive order (“EO”), titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal...
5/21/2025 3:09:22 PM Podcast: “It Broke, It Blew Up, and It’s On Fire: How to Handle Catastrophic Response” By Liskow In this episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones, April Rolen-Ogden, and Liskow attorney Michael Golemi discuss the...
5/2/2024 5:30:25 PM EPA Issues Civil-Criminal Enforcement Coordination Policy, Changing Approach to How It Handles Collaboration Between the Two Offices By Sean Toomey Colin North Greg Johnson On April 17, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a Civil-Criminal Enforcement Coordination Policy (“Policy”)...
1/10/2020 3:56:14 PM OSHA Awards Damages for Retaliatory Discharge of Jones Act Seaman in Violation of Seaman’s Protection Act By David Reisman In a stark reminder of the sanctity of Coast Guard investigations, and the consequences of impeding such investigations, the U.S....
6/24/2019 3:19:53 PM SCOTUS Decides Dutra Group v. Batterton By Liskow Today the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in this landmark case concerning punitive damages. The six justices in the...
9/29/2017 3:58:16 PM The Fifth Circuit Rejects the DOJ’s Attempt to Charge Black Elk Contractors with OCSLA Felonies By Sean Toomey Devin Reid Liskow In the aftermath of a 2012 platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in which three workers were killed, the Department of Justice...
8/8/2017 8:27:27 PM U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision Not to Take Certiorari in United States v. DeCoster is a Reminder to the Food and Drug Industries to be Mindful of the Park Doctrine By Sean Toomey Earlier this year there was hope in the food and drug industries that the Supreme Court would revisit and possibly revise the Responsible...