Above The Law

APRIL 10, 2025

(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) In early June 2022, in the wake of the unprecedented leak of a draft of the Supreme Courts Dobbs opinion, Nicholas Roske, a California man in his mid-20s, was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaughs Maryland home. Roske, who was reportedly angry about the Courts decision to overturn Roe v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The case was currently pending before the Fourth Circuit after a federal district court in Maryland held that Maryland law preempted the local law. The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s a little surprising the court let stand a federal court decision invalidating a state statute on constitutional grounds, but animal-rights groups defending that decision argued persuasively that state statutes are in a state of flux and it would be premature for the justices to take up the case now.

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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

Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to prepare a draft recovery plan for the jumping mouse by the end of January 2022, and to finalize the plan by the end of January 2023. Federal Court Directed Department of Interior to Search for Drafts of Zinke Order Rescinding Moratorium on Coal Leasing Program. Continental Resources, Inc.

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