SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As Roberts put it, what should the court do in a situation where “the plain language” of a statute “seems to require one result,” while “the plainly logical meaning of a subsequent precedent” seems to require the opposite? But a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v. The question raised in Shinn v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. Johnson asks the court to resolve whether denying virtually all exercise violates the Eighth Amendment absent a security justification. Below we briefly discuss those 14 cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 5, 2025

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which by a vote of 2-1 upheld the district courts decision. The justices will meet again for another private conference on Thursday, May 15. Orders from that conference are likely on Monday, May 19, at 9:30 a.m.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Moving on to potential blockbusters that don’t explicitly call on the court to overrule precedent. Environmental Protection Agency , 21-454 , is a long-running Clean Water Act dispute that has already been the subject of one major Supreme Court decision. They invoke Rapanos v. relisted after the Jan. 7 conference).

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But the court declined to invalidate the entire agency for this structural flaw, instead severing the for-cause provision from the rest of its authorizing statute. It argues that the 3rd Circuit’s decision has thrown all of that into upheaval and must be reviewed. Superior Court extends to hearing potential jurors’ names.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

As the case comes to the Supreme Court, Medrano contended that the use of his statements violated his rights under Miranda v. Arizona , the landmark 1966 decision that requires police officers to tell suspects that they have a right to remain silent and to have a lawyer with them during interrogation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 19, 2025

4] Canadas statute is an updated version of what have been called constituency statutes in the United States, which explicitly expand the fiduciary duties of corporate managers and directors beyond shareholders but do not usually include the environment among allowable factors, except in Arizona and Texas. [5]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. The federal district court for the District of Arizona enjoined the U.S. 97182-0 (Wash.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit affirmed , holding that because a federal agency now has the final say over how the private horse-racing authority implements the federal statute, the amended law did not impermissibly delegate authority to a private entity. In a one-paragraph order, the justices granted the authoritys request.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

EPA (2024), she criticized the Courts decision to block an EPA rule without fully engaging with legal and procedural requirements, stating, The Court today enjoins the enforcement of a major Environmental Protection Agency rule without fully engaging with both the relevant law and the voluminous record. Luxshare, Ltd.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 1, 2025

in Arizona and California ). Third: positive environmental justice decisions are still coming down in the courts. For example, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently issued an opinion reversing a District Court decision that would have prevented an environmental justice lawsuit from moving forward.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. The federal district court for the District of Arizona denied EPA and the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline.

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