SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A federal district court in Arizona rejected the group’s request to stop the land exchange, and the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed that ruling. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: Utah v. 1701(a)(1) of perpetual federal retention of unappropriated public lands in Utah is unconstitutional.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline. The Minnesota Supreme Court denied petitions for further review of an appellate court decision finding all but one aspect of the environmental review for the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline project to be adequate. filed Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 10, 2024

6 rioters win early release, even before key Supreme Court ruling (Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post) Utah, trade groups ask Supreme Court to review oil rail line (Niina H. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Some Jan.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

It was in response to the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. In that case, the court ruled that the government could take someone’s property for private economic development under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Claus, saying it qualified as a “public use.” New London.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

After Temporarily Blocking Activity on Helium Extraction Project in Southeastern Utah, Federal Court Denied Emergency Injunctive Relief. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of a helium extraction project in an area of the San Rafael Desert in southeastern Utah covered by an oil and gas lease sold in December 2018. 20-472 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While the decision has been appealed , a federal district court in Utah v. Revoking Chevron would have enormous effects across the federal bench even though the Supreme Court itself has ignored the doctrine in recent years. In the Utah v. There is, however, a notable exception to this trend.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 24, 2024

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Trump allies crush misinformation research despite Supreme Court loss (Cat Zakrzewski & Naomi Nix, The Washington Post) Bears, Fish, and Wolves’ New Predator: the Supreme Court?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. The court also declined to sever and transfer the land-based portion of the lawsuit.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Further, the court noted that ERISA’s savings clause, essentially an escape hatch from preemption, would not allow for the rules’ survival because the laws “pose an obstacle” to ERISA’s comprehensive scheme. Within ERISA’s framework, from which state-by-state deviation is not allowed, is language at issue in an appeal in Utah v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

BLM Dropped Appeal of Adverse Decision on Environmental Review for Utah Coal Mine Expansion. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the federal government’s unopposed motion for voluntary dismissal of its appeal of a March 2021 District of Utah decision that found that the U.S. June 22, 2021). June 21, 2021).

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. Casey, they argue, “does not represent long-settled doctrine, rests on a foundation of flawed judicial reasoning, and boasts no traditional reliance interests.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Parties Voluntarily Dismissed Appeals of Federal Court Decision Requiring More Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision. filed Apr.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Utah Federal Court Said Analysis of Coal Mine Expansion’s Greenhouse Gas Impacts Was Inadequate. The federal district court for the District of Utah found that BLM failed to adequately consider greenhouse gas and climate change impacts of a proposed coal lease authorizing the expansion of a coal mine. 1:19-cv-02869 (D.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the Judiciary Committee and someone who has endorsed Trump. There is debate over “officer of the United States” and “Term Limits,” which the chief justice asks Mitchell to clarify that he’s referring to a 1995 Supreme Court decision, U.S. There will be a packed courtroom, though. Term Limits v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

They argue that the court nonetheless should grant review in order to clarify the law for future elections. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, has already opined that “ there is a strong likelihood that the [Pennsylvania] Supreme Court decision violates the Federal Constitution.”

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