Joshua S. Johnson

(D.C. Cir.) – Represented a major interstate natural gas pipeline company in successfully defending FERC's approval of a $390 million pipeline project and its predetermination that the project's costs may be rolled into system rates in a future rate proceeding

(U.S.) – Briefed and argued case involving the copyrightability of annotations to a state’s official code

(11th Cir.) — Secured affirmance of summary judgment in favor of airline client in putative antitrust class action alleging price-fixing of checked baggage fees 

(D.C. Cir.) – Successfully defended award of summary judgment to government contractor in False Claims Act suit 

(Fed. Cir.) – Successfully defended judgment favoring government contractor in bid protest

(6th Cir.) – Briefed and argued challenge to a Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration enforcement order against a pipeline operator

(1st Cir.); (D.Mass.) – Secured and successfully defended on appeal district court order holding that Natural Gas Act preempted the application of a municipal ordinance to a federally approved natural gas pipeline compressor station

(1st Cir.) – Successfully defended air permit for natural gas pipeline compressor station against numerous Clean Air Act and state-law challenges; successfully argued against vacatur of permit on one issue where Court concluded additional analysis by state agency was needed, and then successfully defended agency’s reaffirmance of air permit in subsequent post-remand appeal

(2d Cir.) – Drafted briefs in appeal from a criminal conviction in a case involving an alleged violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, among other charges

(U.S.); (5th Cir.); (W.D. Tex.) – Obtained summary judgment defending the State Bar of Texas against a First Amendment mandatory bar challenge; on appeal, the Fifth Circuit vacated and granted partial summary judgment and a preliminary injunction to the three plaintiffs, but upheld the vast majority of the Bar’s challenged initiatives as constitutional; the U.S. Supreme Court denied our opponents’ cert petition