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France court finds government liable for climate change inaction

JURIST

In determining whether the French state had failed in its obligations, the court ruled that the state could only be held responsible for part of the damages if it had not respected its commitments to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

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Court Rules for Home Depot in Barring Black Lives Matter Imagery

JonathanTurley

In January, I wrote a column criticizing the legal position of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in favor of Whole Food workers seeking to wear Black Lives Matter (BLM) symbols or clothing at work. The question is whether the government can require companies to allow speech deemed unacceptable or offensive.

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Another federal agency challenges adverse ruling by 5th Circuit

SCOTUSBlog

To enforce these laws, Congress created the SEC. It granted the agency the power to regulate investors through either lawsuits in federal court or internal hearings in front of an administrative law judge, or ALJ. His day in court finally having arrived, Jarkesy appealed his constitutional challenge to the 5th Circuit.

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Becerra’s Blunder: Did the Administration Allow Fauci and other Officials to Operate Illegally?

JonathanTurley

” It turns out she might have been more accurate than she thought — because Fauci legally may have been just a “regular guy” giving out billions without authority. What is equally baffling is that the House informed the administration that it was presumptively in violation of federal law.

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Report: Summer School on the new Foreign Relations Law, MPIL Heidelberg, June 8-10, 2022

Conflict of Laws

This also generates questions of whether such a field of law is needed at all or which particular issues it should govern, as the possible area of regulation is to a large extent covered by other areas of law, namely international law, conflict of laws, constitutional law, and administrative law as well as by the field of diplomacy.

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Tick, Tick, Tick…: The Supreme Court Readies an Explosive Docket for 2022

JonathanTurley

After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The Biden administration and other litigants then forced a reconsideration of that decision. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. If so, AHA v.

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US Supreme Court rejects North Carolina’s ‘independent legislature’ theory

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Moore v. The theory stipulates that state legislatures retain exclusive authority over the administration of elections; therefore, state courts are not allowed to intervene, even if the law in question violates the state constitution. .” Reno and Cooper v.

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