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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. North Dakota v. The court also called for the views of the solicitor general (a so-called CVSG) in Epic Systems Corp v. relisted after the Sept.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) sales of oil and gas leases on public lands in Montana and North Dakota between July 2019 and September 2020 suffered from the same defects that the court identified in a May 2020 decision that vacated 2017 and 2018 leases. Notre Affaire à Tous and Others v.

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Free exercise, greenhouse-gas regulation, and a slew of other relists from the long conference

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. North Dakota v. Three cases involving lawsuits over allegations that police officers used excessive force. Epic Systems Corp v. 27 conference).