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Colorado Supreme Court strikes down child sexual abuse law that allowed lawsuits over abuse from decades ago

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The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado struck down the state’s Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act (CSAAA) on Tuesday, ruling that the law violates the state constitution and is “unconstitutionally retrospective.” M árquez authored the opinion of the court. ” Justice Monica M.

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Supreme Court rules 5-4 against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute

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Jicarilla Apache Nation , the court held that the United States owes no duty to Indian tribes except those expressly noted in treaties, statutes, or regulations. The post Supreme Court rules 5-4 against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute appeared first on SCOTUSblog. Following cases such as United States v.

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Christian school renews effort to expand religious freedom over employment

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This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, at what stage of litigation the ministerial exception should come into play. Gregory Tucker was a science teacher at Faith Christian Academy, a religious school operated by the nondenominational Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance.

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Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases

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The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. United States , involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for extraordinary and compelling reasons. GEO asserted that it had derivative sovereign immunity under the 1940 Supreme Court case Yearsley v.

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Intellectual property and Navajo water rights

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, two involve cases in which the court called for the views of the solicitor general, thus indicating (since it takes the vote of four justices to CVSG ) that there was already a high level of interest among the justices in the case. Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. trademarks. Navajo Nation.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the District of Columbia granted BLM’s and federal officials’ motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of claims that they failed to comply with NEPA in connection with 27 oil and gas leasing decisions across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana between September 2016 and March 2019.

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