ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The Supreme Court sided with the fossil fuel company defendants, ruling that appellate courts could review all grounds of the remand order.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not. What is disputed is whether it is just or legal to convict Ward of felony crimes for acting peacefully and responsibly to prevent greater harm to the climate.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Second Circuit agreed with the district court that the plaintiff lacked standing because he failed to allege an injury in fact since he “never explained why he had any legal right to have the document distributed.” Federal Court in Washington Upheld Forest Restoration Plan. EPA’s brief is due December 15. Williams , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 29, 2025

Menocal arises from a class action brought by former immigration detainees at a private detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, operated by The GEO Group, Inc. The class action alleged violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and Colorado common law prohibitions against unjust enrichment. under contract with U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a few slow weeks on the relist front, the Supreme Court came roaring back this week with four newly relisted petitions that, if granted, will likely be added to the March 2023 argument calendar. Colorado , 22-138. Two years ago, in United States v. Hanna and the law firms seek review , asserting a 2-1 split. 18 and Dec.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 26, 2025

A series of Supreme Court decisions have weighed in on the 1971 laws campaign-spending rules. Valeo , the court struck down the limits on independent expenditures but generally upheld the limits on contributions. A quarter-century later, in 2001, the court in FEC v. In its landmark 1976 ruling in Buckley v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

After District Court Declined to Enjoin Coal Company’s Road-Building Activities in Colorado, Tenth Circuit Entered Temporary Injunction. Forest Service adopted the North Fork Exception to the Colorado Roadless Rule in 2016, allowing for road construction related to coal mining in the Sunset Roadless Area. Bernhardt , No.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The US Supreme Court has begun hearing oral arguments in former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court decision to remove the former president from the state’s primary election ballot in the upcoming 2024 presidential election cycle. The landmark case of Trump v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2024

Former President Donald Trump filed an appeal Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the state’s ballot. The original decision will now be on hold until the US Supreme Court rules on the appeal.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. District Court Rejected Climate Change Arguments in Challenge to Listing Determination for Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout. The federal district court for the District of Colorado rejected arguments that the U.S. Rhode Island v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the state’s 2024 primary ballot. In a one-page unsigned order, the court scheduled oral arguments for February 8.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Supreme Court takes the bench in Trump v. Anderson, about whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in excluding former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. 6, 2021, and whose report was admitted into evidence by the Colorado trial court. (I Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Term Limits v.

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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. Case Outcome: Reversal of Lower Court Decision: 5 points. Other Areas: 15 points. Ludlow Sch.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

But in response to legal challenges, Congress amended the law in 2022 to give the FTC the power to make changes to the authoritys rules. A group of states brought suit in a federal district court in Kentucky, challenging the constitutionality of the HISA and its funding mechanism. Judicial factfinding for restitution Under Apprendi v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. Lawsuit Challenged Master Development Plan for Oil and Gas Development in Colorado.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

In December, six amicus briefs were filed in support of Baltimore—by state and local government groups, environmental groups, six senators, law professors who teach and write on civil procedure and the federal courts, 19 states and the District of Columbia, and Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder in Colorado.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Eleni Kounalakis publicly called upon the Secretary of State to “explore every legal option” to follow the same path as Colorado. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The district court found the analysis of greenhouse gas and climate change impacts to be adequate but remanded for consideration of alternatives that did not involve leasing all nominated parcels. The conservation groups’ appeal of the district court decision is still pending, with the opening brief due on July 12. BP p.l.c. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a challenge to license renewals for the Turkey Point nuclear generating station in Florida as “incurably premature.” The court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction because administrative appeals that raised the same legal issues were still pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Colorado Judge Sarah Wallace has become the latest jurist to reject the effort to bar former president Donald Trump from the ballot under the novel 14th Amendment theory. I have long been a vocal critic of the theory, which I view as historically and legally unfounded. I hope that she does. Here is the opinion: Anderson v. Griswald

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Ninth Circuit declined to remand with instructions for dismissal of the underlying action and also declined to vacate any district court decisions.

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