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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Federal Court in Virginia Declined to Issue Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to CEQ Amendments to NEPA Regulations, Denied Motions to Dismiss. Wild Virginia v. The State seeks compensatory damages, penalties for violation of the Consumer Fraud Act, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, and costs of suit.

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Liberty university sues former president Jerry Falwell Jr. for breach of contract and fiduciary duty

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The civil suit was filed last Thursday in the Lynchburg Circuit Court in Virginia and claims damages on three counts of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and statutory conspiracy. wanted Liberty to pay severance and retirement benefits to him if Granda revealed the Granda Allegations, and Falwell Jr. Falwell Jr.

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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. West Virginia v. The court also called for the views of the solicitor general (a so-called CVSG) in Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Forest Service Categorical Exclusions Challenged in Virginia Federal Court. A lawsuit filed in the federal district court for the Western District of Virginia challenged three categorical exclusions adopted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management , No. 4:21-cv-00004 (D. Forest Service to exempt certain projects from NEPA review.

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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. West Virginia v. Three cases involving lawsuits over allegations that police officers used excessive force. Epic Systems Corp v. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v.