ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 17, 2015

Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued draft guidance on the consideration of climate change in environmental reviews conducted under NEPA. A variety of other jurisdictions, including Massachusetts , New York , and Washington , have issued similar policies for environmental reviews under state laws. [1] Last year, the U.S.

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Hoban Law Group

APRIL 13, 2021

Neighboring states such as Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have recently enacted their own programs. Additionally, the bill will allow municipalities to “opt-out” of hosting cannabis dispensaries. Other attempts at legalizing cannabis in New York failed in prior sessions, despite the promise of increased tax revenue.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The project will include the drafting and adoption of security policies, an audit of current technology usage and needs, and the development and implementation of a staff training plan. Massachusetts. Northeast Legal Aid will use a $185,000 grant to develop a new app to assist low-income tenants facing poor housing conditions.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2021

The only place in the country that uses GEDs for SIB/AB is the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts (JRC), and the patients it treats suffer from severe behaviors, such as head-banging or self-biting, that have not been resolved using conventional treatments. FDA cleared 510(k)s for GEDs in the 1990s.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

On or before December 1 , radio stations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont and TV stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota must file their license renewal applications (FCC Form 2100, Schedule 303-S). See our blog post covering ownership reporting, here.

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LawSites

APRIL 6, 2022

Founded in 1997, Utah-based WealthCounsel provides software and templates for drafting estate planning and business documents. Whether you’re a family lawyer in Massachusetts or California or England, when you get LEAP, you will get a family law matter that has been carefully constructed for you,” Hugo-Hamman said. For just the U.S.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Looking ahead to the early days of next month, December 1 brings the deadline for license renewal applications for Television, Class A, LPTV, and TV Translator Stations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Another rulemaking proceeding will likely be concluded in November.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 27, 2020

On Monday, July 27, the Sabin Center filed comments with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in support of the proposed Vineyard Wind energy facility offshore Massachusetts on behalf of the group Win with South Fork Wind (“Win with Wind”).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Citing Massachusetts v. The court cited states’ “broad authority to protect residents’ health, safety, property, and general welfare,” and said this power “was not to be preempted unless that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.”

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The project will include the drafting and adoption of security policies, an audit of current technology usage and needs, and the development and implementation of a staff training plan. Massachusetts. Northeast Legal Aid will use a $185,000 grant to develop a new app to assist low-income tenants facing poor housing conditions.

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On October 30th and 31st, Legal Talk Network attended and covered the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI and Blockchain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. Can: Drafting of contracts in predictable areas of law. Can: Drafting of contracts with human oversight. Can: Assist in legal research.

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LawSites

MARCH 8, 2023

I gave an entire presentation to the Massachusetts LOMAP on Twitter and its impact on my career a few years back. Andy asked ChatGPT to write the initial draft of this bio, and it was intriguingly accurate. He is based in Seattle, Wash. Two important, and related, things happened to me in the spring of 2013. First, I joined Twitter.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The North Carolina and Massachusetts Experiments. The first change the researchers implemented was requiring that all plea offers be drafted and discussions transcribed to ensure a record of events. The first-of its-kind system is now successfully operating in both states, and may soon spread to a third, the authors said.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In 1786, Virginia enacted an act on affrays – drafted by Thomas Jefferson – forbidding a person to “go nor ride armed … in terror of the country.” Many of the civilians had gone armed, but Adams conceded that “the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defence, not for offence.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Two years after that ruling, the Harvard case went to trial before a federal district judge in Massachusetts. The amendment was intended to compensate for the “gross injustice and hardship” that Blacks encountered after the Civil War, the universities stress.

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Fordham Law News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

4] After the report was issued, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington issued requests seeking information from the Country’s biggest accounting firms about the revolving door between the firms’ tax groups and positions at the Treasury Department. [5]

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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

So many people came together including great advocates in Massachusetts, which had been doing this for a long time that made possible the change in New York. The Council in fact, did put out some draft language. Anything outside of conduct is no longer asked by New York. BREE: That was huge. JANET: That was huge. It was huge.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

Nothing in the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. To the contrary, the draft expressly states that “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” The cries of alarm include other areas expressly addressed in the draft opinion as not impacted by its analysis.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Massachusetts High Court Upheld Approval of Hydropower Purchase Agreements. According to plaintiffs, by last December Spain should have approved a National Energy and Climate Plan and Long Term Strategy, and the draft plan is not consistent with the Paris Agreement and IPCC recommendations to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The decision was noteworthy not only because it struck down the New York law, which mirrored similar restrictions in California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, but for its methodology. And when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case on June 23, Roberts was on board.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Drafting coherent districts evenly and logically to divide populations is not particularly difficult. In 1812, Gerry — a Founding Father, vice president and governor of Massachusetts — signed off on a district designed to guarantee a seat for the precursor of today’s Democratic Party. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.),

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

The records included spreadsheets tracking and analyzing comments, draft ANPRM fact sheets, meeting agendas, and emails and meeting invitations regarding CEQ’s process for managing comments. The court concluded that CEQ had not demonstrated it would suffer “a reasonably foreseeable harm” from unredacted production. 3:18-cv-00113 (W.D.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Massachusetts High Court Upheld Transmission Line Approval. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the Energy Facilities Siting Board’s approval of a proposal for a new underground electrical transmission line running between substations in the Towns of Sudbury and Hudson. In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , SCOT-20-0000309 (Haw.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2022

Here is the column: The leaking of a Supreme Court justice’s draft opinion on abortion rights, followed by the “doxing” and targeting of individual justices at their homes, has led to calls for prosecution under a federal law prohibiting “pickets and parades” at the residences of judges or jurors. In Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass.

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