ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court for the District of Columbia.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 27, 2023

That provision, Section 324 of the act, also stripped federal courts of the power to review challenges to those permits and channeled all challenges to the constitutionality of the act to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

An Oregon-based timber company went to federal court in Oregon to challenge the monument’s expansion. Meanwhile, a trade association representing the Pacific Northwest timber industry went to federal court in the District of Columbia with a similar challenge. But the D.C. On appeal, the U.S. United States and Murphy Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Oklahoma , the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern half of Oklahoma remains “Indian country” for purposes of the Major Crimes Act , meaning that the federal government, not the state, has authority for prosecuting Native Americans for major crimes committed on reservations. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the CADA.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 4, 2022

New York has long been the source of major litigation over gun control. That includes the possible loss before the Supreme Court in a pending major gun rights case. ” The New York law could offer an important test of the outer boundaries of this right after the Court rules in the pending case.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 6, 2024

To date, federal courts have been reluctant to grant this type of extraordinary relief in challenges to offshore wind projects. For example, in recent years, federal courts have denied motions for preliminary injunction in litigation pertaining to the South Fork Wind , Vineyard Wind , and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind projects.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The federal government also is subject to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits the government and other covered entities like the District of Columbia from “substantially burden[ing]” a person’s exercise of religion. They also can refile if the lower court has not reached a decision by Oct.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

The district court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected these claims on the ground that the Constitution’s speech-or-debate clause prohibits judicial review of legislative actions such as voting. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., In McCarthy v. In Skinner v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2023

They have pushed ill-considered legislation and litigation that only served to create precedent against gun control. Courts likely would press the Biden administration on why it is seeking to ban this model when other higher-caliber weapons are sold. In the past, politicians in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C.,

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that abortion pill mifepristone will continue to be widely accessible as the ongoing appeals process takes place. The Supreme Court ruling keeps mifepristone widely available during ongoing litigation. Mifepristone, approved in 2000, is used broadly to end pregnancies.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2022

They have pushed ill-considered legislation and litigation that only served to create precedent against gun control. Moreover, the earlier ban was imposed in 1994 — before the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. In the past, politicians in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C.,

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Glucksberg , a case in which he helped persuade the court to unanimously uphold Washington’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Paul Clement, the conservative Supreme Court advocate who frequently sparred with Ginsburg during oral arguments, called her “ a path-marking litigator for equality for women and a keen legal tactician.”. Ruth Ginsburg was one of the members of the Court who achieved greatness before she became a great justice,” he wrote.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Raskin declared “we’re winning in court…we’re winning across the board.” ” The boast was dubious at best on Sunday given earlier losses, but became embarrassing on Monday and Tuesday as additional courts ruled in favor of the Trump Administration in major cases.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. On October 4 , the federal district court for the Northern District of California vacated the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Given this “unmitigable prejudice,” the court concluded “that this litigation cannot, in good conscience, continue in the Tribe’s absence.”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On the other hand, challenges to the EPA’s approval or issuance of any implementation plan, as well as any other final action by the EPA that is “locally or regionally applicable,” can only be filed in the local or regional court of appeals. Town of Southold, N.Y. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003. Circuit to the Supreme Court, where she clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens during the 2003-04 term. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court. before going to clerk for Judge David Tatel of the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In addition, the court found that the writer failed to allege elements of an abuse of process or a malicious prosecution claim.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The court directed the parties to submit a proposed format for briefing within 30 days. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If Sullivan’s ruling remains in effect, they argued, it will effectively nullify Summerhays’ ruling. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the states’ request to join the case on appeal. The court explained that the states’ request came too late. case to defend the policy.

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The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

The full collection — which includes contributions from 14 scholars — is available here. ‘Self-Inflicted Second Amendment Wounds’ The 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. In his essay, titled “Will the Supreme Court Avoid Further Self-Inflicted Second Amendment Wounds?”,

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Waters’ most recent words could well be cited in the ongoing litigation over the January 6 th riot on Capitol Hill. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine then thrilled many by declaring that he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. and non-U.S. 17cv1215, 17cv1873, 17cv1911 (S.D.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Colorado Court Ruled on Venue for Colorado Local Governments’ Climate Change Claims. Wikimedia Commons. and non-U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. On the existing evidence, they will likely fail on appeal, even if they survive the trial level litigation. In Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

The state court, Sotomayor observed, never addressed Love’s contention that he had been deprived of his constitutional right to an impartial jury. Although that was done in Love’s case, she noted, it doesn’t help “if courts do not even consider claims of racial bias that litigants bring forward.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Federal Court Upheld Environmental Review for Forest Thinning Project. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 29, 2025

(The Sabin Center and the Environmental Defense Fund created the IRA Tracker after the IRA was enacted in 2022 to record actions taken by federal agencies to implement the law and relaunched the resource at the start of President Trumps second term with added features to track rollbacks and litigation). In State of New York v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Without the court’s intervention, the House Committee on Ways and Means is poised to obtain six years of tax returns for Trump and the companies he owns. McFadden, a Trump appointee, ruled against Trump, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld that ruling.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

If some cases can be sustained past motions to dismiss, they would also allow for discovery though those fights could draw out the litigation. However, Democrats may also be laying the foundation for Trump to claim vindication in defeating such cases in courts. 6 riot that he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed. The court of appeals refused, instead expediting argument. By a split vote, the 6th Circuit then reversed the lower courts’ rulings , concluding that the states were likely to win their appeals. The court thus allowed the laws go into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed. In an opinion by Judge Patricia Millett, the majority compared the members’ right to go to court to challenge the denial of information under Section 2954 to standing to sue for the denial of requests under laws like the Freedom of Information Act.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2024

As it has in the past, the Court adopted a three-tiered approach to presidential powers based on the source of a presidential action. Sawyer , in which the court ruled against President Harry Truman’s takeover of steel mills. Moreover, shortly after McCardle , the Court ruled in United States v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Sunset in Hawaii. and non-U.S. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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