Pro Bono Efforts Involving Political Elections

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Pro bono efforts that are currently being (or have previously been) undertaken by you or your firm regarding voting rights, redistricting, voter suppression or intimidation, election process integrity, and election law; noteworthy challenges and successes on these fronts; how these types of cases have evolved over the years; how your pro bono work on these issues dovetails with your firm’s overall culture and pro bono priorities.

State AG Races to Watch

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The stakes for state attorney general races in this November’s midterm elections; key issues or enforcement priorities or trends that could be impacting these races; any especially noteworthy face-offs that businesses should be paying attention to.

N.J. Regulators Impose Record-Setting Fine Over Data Center Generators

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A million-dollar fine that New Jersey regulators recently imposed over a data infrastructure company’s unpermitted gas generators; local requirements or state or federal environmental regulations that may apply in this instance; litigation that DataOne is facing, in addition to the fine by state regulators; what this case may illustrate regarding scrutiny (whether by regulators or other individuals or entities) of data center operations and energy supply issues; how the DataOne dispute could shape regulatory treatment and overall decisionmaking regarding data center operations, and requested approval of data centers, both in New Jersey and elsewhere.

Related information:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/new-jersey-fines-data-center-1-1m-after-satellite-pics-expose-62-gas-generators

Company Faces Religious Accommodation Claim Over 401(k) Options

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Religious accommodation claims that employers could face over environmental issues; what to know about an employee’s recent lawsuit over 401(k) options; whether other employers are facing similar religion-based claims over environmental or energy-based decisions; how the religious accommodation landscape is evolving; how employers should respond to these types of claims.

Related information:

https://www.hrdive.com/news/worker-alleges-companys-failure-to-provide-fossil-fuel-free-401k-option/826971

Solar Energy Has Its Moment in the Sun; Is the Future Bright, Too?

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Your choice of trends or recent developments involving solar energy, whether lawsuits and rulings over the Trump administration’s termination of a multibillion-dollar solar grant program; trends in residential or commercial solar energy use and related investments and innovations (in the country of your choice, or globally); challenges facing plans for continued expansion of solar energy use; and more.

Related information:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trumps-epa-unlawfully-terminated-7-billion-solar-grant-program-judge-rules-2026-09-18

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear