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J. Michael Showalter

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Authority Is the New Battleground: Lessons From the White House Ballroom Dispute for Infrastructure Projects

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By J. Michael Showalter
| The National Law Review Verified
Infrastructure disputes increasingly turn on a threshold question that many project sponsors assume has already been resolved: Does the governmental actor supporting, permitting, funding, or constructing the project actually possess legal authority to do so? For decades, developers focused primarily on environmental review, permitting requirements, and financing. Those issues remain critical.
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Authority Is the New Battleground: Lessons From the White House Ballroom Dispute for Infrastructure Projects

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By J. Michael Showalter, Robert Middleton, Duncan Weinstein
| ArentFox Schiff Legal Podcasts
On For decades, developers focused primarily on environmental review, permitting requirements, and financing. Those issues remain critical. Increasingly, however, some of the most consequential project disputes arise even earlier, before courts reach environmental impacts, economic benefits, or policy considerations. Instead, litigants are asking a more fundamental question: Did the government have authority to act in the first place?
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Four Takeaways for Developers and Investors From New York's Data Center Pause | JD Supra

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By J. Michael Showalter
| JD Supra
New York's data center pause is temporary, but the review process itself will make permanent the assumptions, standards, and evidentiary records that govern future development. As investment in artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates, hyperscale data centers are concentrating substantial electric load growth in specific places, forcing states to confront the demand for power, transmission constraints, water use, community impacts, and cost allocation.
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