6th Circuit Vacates Class Certification In Action Against FirstEnergy

( August 25, 2025, 8:09 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a lower court’s class certification order in a suit against FirstEnergy Corp. brought by investors regarding a bribery scheme that delivered approximately $2 billion to the company through lobbying the Ohio Legislature to pass House Bill 6,  finding that the lower court applied the wrong presumption in certifying the class....