SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Share With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high as a result of the Omicron variant, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation over its legality continues in the lower courts.

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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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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. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the U.S. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-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

Calumet Shreveport , the justices will consider whether the EPA’s denial of over 100 petitions filed by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements imposed by the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standards program must be litigated in the D.C. The justices also granted review in Esteras v. Town of Southold, N.Y. ,

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 9, 2025

That is a reference to the court’s decision in Murthy v. The states of Missouri and Louisiana, led by Missouri’s then-Attorney General (and now United States senator) Eric Schmitt, claimed that the federal government pressured social media companies to censor conservatives and critics. Missouri last year.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2022

The justices on Thursday agreed to take up a challenge by Texas and Louisiana to a new federal policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. The justices will hear the case in late November without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

A federal district court in Missouri put the rule on hold for 10 states, while a federal district court in Louisiana did the same for 14 other states. The issues and arguments in the dispute over the Medicare/Medicaid vaccine mandate are in many ways similar to those in the employer vaccine-or-test mandate.

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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. Federal Court Denied Motions to Dismiss Challenges to 2019 Presidential Permit for Keystone XL. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But shortly before the policy was set to end in May, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered the Biden administration to continue the restrictions. The administrative stay means that the policy will not automatically terminate on Wednesday if the justices need more time to rule.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 6, 2022

The case, Louisiana v. Fossil-fuel groups and some red states came to the Supreme Court on an emergency basis, asking the justices to put the California judge’s ruling on hold while the litigation continues. Roberts joined Kagan’s dissent, as did Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

The district court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on most claims, finding that the DPOC and DPOR requirements were preempted by the NVRA and violated the VRA, but it rejected the Equal Protection claim. Adam Feldman runs the litigation consulting company Optimized Legal Solutions LLC. 8 Elliot Greenfield, Alexander C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

They contended that it would seem to follow from Apprendi that a jury must find any facts necessary to support a (nonzero) restitution order, and they suggested that the court should take up a lower court ruling to the contrary. Judicial factfinding for restitution Under Apprendi v. Relisted after the Jan. 10 conference.)

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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. Louisiana Federal Court Halted Work on Crude Oil Pipeline in Swamp Area. and non-U.S. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If the viability rule is discarded, the clinic warns, it would result in “attempts by half the states in the Nation to forbid abortion entirely, and a judiciary left without tools to manage the resulting litigation.”. Stare decisis and the Kavanaugh test. Last year, in Ramos v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 26, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea from Louisiana and nine other states to bar federal agencies from considering the social costs of greenhouse gases as part of their decision-making process. The administration appealed to the conservative U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In private practice, Sauer has continued to litigate hot-button issues. Last term he represented Louisiana in its unsuccessful effort , joined by Missouri, to limit the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies. for U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 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. Court Said Climate Scientist Provided Sufficient Evidence of Actual Malice for Blog Authors but Not for Publisher. Louisiana v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

In 2020, with Kennedy now retired, the Supreme Court in June Medical Services v. Russo struck down a similar admitting-privileges requirement in Louisiana. In an opinion joined by the court’s other three liberals, Breyer stressed that the requirement was “almost word-for-word identical to Texas’ admitting-privileges law.”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. residents are not entitled to representation in the House because they do not live in a “state”; the Supreme Court on Monday allowed that ruling to stand. The other cases in which the justices denied review included: Louisiana v. The justices sent Biden v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts. Nothing could be more damaging to the litigation and the federal courts quickly rejected the CDC and Tribe arguments.

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