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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

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When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. A group of North Dakota dispatchers listened to a 911 tape the day after Harpster’s class and decided the caller “didn’t seem to be appropriately shocked or upset” on the phone when reporting a homicide.

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Climate change and immigration policies headline February argument calendar

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The justices will tackle a wide range of issues, from the Environmental Protection Authority’s power to regulate greenhouse gases to an effort by a group of states to defend a controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration declined to do so. EPA and North Dakota v.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. and non-U.S. 17cv1215, 17cv1873, 17cv1911 (S.D.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Justices agree to review EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases

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Share In a term already defined by abortion and guns , the justices on Friday agreed to hear two more politically divisive disputes, involving the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases and the ability of states to defend a Trump-era immigration rule that the Biden administration has declined to defend.