Court Rules Montana Statute Tort 
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Montana Federal Court Found Failure to Take a Hard Look at Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Review of Coal Mine Expansion. In earlier litigation challenging the same mining plan modification, the court found procedural and substantive violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). WildEarth Guardians v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 8, 2021
Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. Sierra Club v.
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2021
Grimm , leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that a Virginia school district violated federal law when it barred students from using the restrooms that align with their gender identities. corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Montana Federal Court Allowed Some Coal Mining Activity to Take Place While Federal Agency Completed Required NEPA Review. The company said the injunction would “[i]n a matter of weeks … cause severe consequences to the mine and its employees, in an area of Montana that can ill-afford economic displacement.” CP18-5 (FERC Oct.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
If the renewal license was an order, the First Circuit asked the state court to address whether the CCA expressly preempted the ordinance challenged in this case. The court also found that the plaintiff’s claim was “frivolous because there is no legal theory on which he can rely.” Williams , No. 19-cv-6855 (E.D.N.Y. City of Oakland v.
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