SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Court of Restitution, which, in 1954, declared her the rightful owner of the painting. In 2005, after his petition was denied, Claude sued in federal district court in California, where he had lived since 1980. The district court rejected all of these arguments, and the U.S. 1605(a)(3) ).

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Biden administration to temporarily reinstate a rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives regulating “ghost guns” while a challenge to the rule continues in a federal appeals court. On June 30, O’Connor vacated the rule nationwide.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in Torres v. The department responded that as a state agency, it was immune from suit, and a Texas court agreed and dismissed the suit. Maine (an earlier state sovereign immunity case) and District of Columbia v. It is likely that, as in Alden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Nineteen other states and the District of Columbia have similar laws. In the same year, a divided Supreme Court ruled in National Institute for Family and Life Advocates v. But the 9th Circuit disagreed.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals. 20-1045 (D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Oregon Supreme Court Said Public Trust Doctrine Did Not Impose Obligation to Protect Resources from Climate Change. With respect to the scope of the doctrine, the Supreme Court said the public trust doctrine extends both to the State navigable waters and to the State’s submerged and submersible lands. (A FEATURED CASE. Chernaik v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore drilling and production facility off the coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, finding that BOEM failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). FEATURED CASE. 20-472 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

District Court in the District of Columbia ultimately concluded that the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the EO. Trump asserted the following causes of action: Violation of the separation of powers doctrine. Trump , the court (Judge Randolph D. In both cases, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Share Sandra Day O’Connor, a self-described “Arizona cowgirl” who made history as the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, died on Friday in Phoenix, Arizona. The cause was complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease, and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court announced. She was 93.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This case pleads that everybody, even publicly elected officials and celebrities, is owed the right to sexual privacy and redress from our courts when they experience intimate partner violence.”. ” The complaint notes that 46 states and the District of Columbia have criminalized the dissemination nude or sexually graphic images.

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