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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

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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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SCOTUS to Determine Future of Chevron Deference

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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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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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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. Cochran , 21-1239.

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

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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.