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Update: Upcoming Hearings on Motions to Dismiss Climate Change Nuisance Cases in California and New York

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There are eight other climate change tort cases pending: six alleging nuisance and a variety of other state common law violations in California courts, one claiming state public nuisance along with other state common law and statutory violations in Colorado, and one claiming state public nuisance and trespass in Washington.

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Colorado Candidate Accused of Yielding to Blackmail While on the Aspen City Council

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There is a bizarre political controversy out of Colorado that may raise some interesting defamation and criminal law questions. Both the Colorado GOP and Rep. Here is the criminal extortion statute: 18-3-207. Yet, CRS 16-5-401 would seem to set a three-year statute of limitations for extortion cases.

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Red states urge Supreme Court to block suits against big oil

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City of Englewood, New Jersey , 23-1189 Issues : (1) Whether the City of Englewoods speech-free buffer zones, including zones outside an abortion clinic, violate the First Amendment; and (2) whether the court should overrule Hill v. Relisted after the Nov. 10 and Jan. 17 conferences.) Coalition Life v. Relisted after the Nov. 10 and Jan. 10 and Jan.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The federal district court for the District of Colorado rejected arguments that the U.S. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim. Rhode Island v.

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Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023

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Bowman , which addresses the scope of federal criminal statutes, into its current extraterritoriality framework. Meanwhile, lower courts struggled with how to fit the Supreme Court’s 1922 decision in United States v. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court interpreted the aiding and abetting provision of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in Twitter, Inc.

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In a slew of new cases, the justices take in closer look

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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. Franklin v.

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In lawsuit originally filed by J.D. Vance, GOP asks court to overrule limit on campaign spending

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Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee upheld the 1971 laws limits on coordinated party expenditures. Fast-forward two decades to today, and the Colorado ruling is under siege. In an opinion by Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, the court of appeals concluded it was bound by the Supreme Courts 2001 ruling in the Colorado case.

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