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Utah Woman Charged with Hate Crime for Stomping on “Back The Blue” Sign

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which states a person who commits any primary offense — such as misdemeanor property destruction — with the intent to “intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that his action would intimidate or terrorize that person” is subject to a class B misdemeanor primary offense becoming a class A misdemeanor.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the Eastern District of California held that more analysis of the impacts climate change would have on a water transfer program for the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta was required under NEPA. In a letter to the court on March 2, the parties asked the court to defer further briefing on the U.S.-based

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Court declines to step into series of disputes under consideration

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The result, he concluded, is that courts arbitrarily deprive injured servicemembers and their families of a remedy that Congress provided them. New Jersey , the Supreme Court held that a jury must find, beyond a reasonable doubt, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime above the maximum established by law.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. On July 8, 2021, a jury in Minnesota state court found four activists guilty of aiding and abetting fourth degree criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor offense.

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