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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon: a unique class action against fossil fuel companies presses for climate accountability in the United States

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On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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US Supreme Court announces January oral argument schedule, will hear issues of privilege, preemption and administrative procedure

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Through oral arguments, the court will determine whether the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act’s general grant of jurisdiction to the US federal courts preempts a Puerto Rican governmental body’s sovereign authority. On January 11, the court will hear arguments in Financial Oversight Board v.

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Homeland Security Agent Arrested For Accepting Bribe

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Department of Homeland Security, was charged last Friday by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico for allegedly accepting money from someone in exchange for his assistance with immigration status and submitting a false statement on a loan application to the Federal Employee Retirement Thrift Savings Plan.

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US Supreme Court will consider liability shields for online platforms, seven additional new cases

JURIST

Garland the court is again asked to examine administrative procedure, this time in the context of an immigration proceeding. Leon Santos-Zacaria is an immigrant who was removed from the US but later reentered the country. That holding was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals, an administrative body.

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Jamaican green-card holder asks court to overrule precedent on “crimes involving moral turpitude”

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De George , the Supreme Court held that the term “crime involving moral turpitude” in federal immigration law is not unconstitutionally vague. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In its 1951 decision in Jordan v. citizen the following year.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

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Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born controlled Philippines, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii, he always believed that treating one group of people differently from others was a recurrence of the old cancer. born children. Last year, Peter S.

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Friday round-up

SCOTUSBlog

These relists include petitions about sentencing reform for crimes involving crack cocaine , unequal treatment of Puerto Rico in a federal safety-net program , and President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking his critics on Twitter. Other petitions are scheduled for consideration at Friday’s conference for the first time.