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Climate Litigation in Japan: What to Expect in 2025

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

In Japan, climate litigation ( / Kiko soshou ) has been used to challenge the legality of the construction and operation of the coal-fired power plants and promote coal phase-out. Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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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. Eight additional power plants are currently planned or under construction. Civil law cases. Administrative complaints. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v.

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‘La Acción de Cumplimiento’ as a Legal Mechanism to Implement Colombian Climate Change Laws

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. These suits were brought forward through a unique legal mechanism called ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ’ (roughly translated as compliance action). Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 3 to April 7, 2023

Broadcast Law Blog

Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Chair, House Energy and Commerce Committee) asserted that the HDO “violates Commission rules and precedents in several ways,” and asked the Chairwoman to provide, by April 19, responses to fourteen questions concerning the facts surrounding the decision to issue the HDO and the Bureau’s legal theories supporting it.

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

SCOTUSBlog

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. Entitled to” Medicare is a legal status for individuals who meet specified requirements, such as turning 65.

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SCOTUS to Determine Future of Chevron Deference

Constitutional Law Reporter

If, however, the court determines Congress has not directly addressed the precise question at issue, the court does not simply impose its own construction on the statute. The Court’s decision in Chevron is one of the most frequently cited administrative law decisions. Issues Before the Supreme Court In Relentless, Inc.

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‘Giustizia consensuale’: A New Law Journal on Consensual Justice in Its Many Nuances and Forms

Conflict of Laws

Notes on Law, Psychology, and Practice ; in Italian). It first analyses the conceptual, legal and systematic differences between conciliation and arbitration, with references to some areas of partial overlap (such as, for example, the one now opened by the Singapore Convention of 2019).

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