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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

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Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. Through May 2022, all existing climate litigation cases in Japan concern the construction or operation of coal-fired power plants and refer to citizens’ attempts to stop the use of coal.

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Patent Puzzles after the Supreme Court’s 2024 Administrative Law Cases: Stare Decisis, Rulemaking, and Discretion

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But the claim construction regulation that the Court upheld as reasonable in Cuozzo is of course different from the regulation currently in place. In November 2018, the USPTO replaced the BRI standard with the claim construction approach used in Article III litigation, which was articulated by the Federal Circuit in Phillips v.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: March 13 to March 17, 2023

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As we’ve reported in previous weekly updates, the FCC’s Media Bureau has issued a hearing designation order referring questions about Standard General Broadcasting’s proposed acquisition of the TEGNA broadcast stations to an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for an evidentiary hearing.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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Both cases arise in the context of administrative proceedings brought by independent enforcement agencies against regulated parties — Axon by the Federal Trade Commission, and Cochran by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Federal prisoners raise that issue in pending petitions in Ham v. Breckon and Jones v. Returning Relists.

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Money for safety-net hospitals at stake in dispute over Medicare payment formula

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The Chevron doctrine, a pillar of administrative law, also looms large in the case. Under this step, a court will accept the agency’s interpretation if it is based on a permissible construction of the statute. This is a practice that cuts against the most basic rules of statutory construction. Empire Health’s arguments.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  March 19, 2022 to March 25, 2022

Broadcast Law Blog

See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information, and read the audit letter setting out all the requirements for the audit response and the list of audited stations, here. Read the auction procedures and see the list of available construction permits, here.

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Allegations of racial bias in a death penalty trial

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Cochran , the justices will decide whether federal district courts have the power to consider claims challenging the constitutionality of the commission’s administrative law proceedings. In Securities and Exchange Commission v. The case is sufficiently similar to Axon Enterprise, Inc. Breckon , pending the outcome in Jones.