ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. The Hawai‘i court, however, found Honolulu’s framing of its claims as traditional tort law claims to be “more accurate.” Citing Massachusetts v. More recently, states and municipalities have asserted claims under consumer protection laws.).

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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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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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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

This is one of the things I say to students all the time, “You’re coming to us not only to learn about contracts and torts, you’re coming to learn how to become a future professional. Where it’s like, “Oh my gosh, that torts professor’s a real person.” And this really sucks right now.

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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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