SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in February on whether to freeze a plan created by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce ozone levels across the United States while litigation over the plan continues in a federal appeals court. Three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

The Navajo Nation reservation is about the size of Ireland or West Virginia, with large portions bordered by the Colorado River. Over one hundred years ago, the Supreme Court found that the creation of Indian reservations arising from Indian land cession treaties in the arid west necessarily created Indian reserved water rights.

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Connor Reporting

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether your complex case is in the area of bankruptcy, intellectual property, antitrust, construction defect, class action, international trade, business litigation or any other area of complex litigation — there are key tools that can set your case up for success. Law Practice Management hour, not CLE.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. The Supreme Court clarified that environmental law treaties constitute a particular type of human rights treaty, which enjoy “supranational” status. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The FCC has already issued such an extension three times since the initial compliance deadline of May 26, 2015, as the NAB contends that there still is no workable technology that can perform the functions required by the rule (see our Broadcast Law Blog article here from the last extension 5 years ago).

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 18, 2024

In June, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing its Good Neighbor Plan while litigation over the plan continues in the lower courts. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Under the venue provision, those challenges were filed in the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Pritzker , Nos.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But before that, three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to the U.S. Circuit declined to temporarily block the federal plan while litigation continued, finding that the challengers had not met the high bar necessary to do so. A divided panel of the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

PJM determined that a project proposed by Transource consisting of new transmission lines running from West Virginia to Maryland would reduce this congestion and provide net positive economic benefits. The Supremacy Clause serves to “ invalidate[] state law that interferes with or is contrary to federal law.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 28, 2023

But litigation is nearly assured in any scenario. A year before the Proposed SEC Rule was even issued, the Attorney General of West Virginia announced his intention to challenge any such rule on First Amendment grounds. appeared first on Climate Law Blog. Will the SEC Lead or Lag?

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

In a brief unsigned order , the justices denied West Virginia’s request to be allowed to enforce a law that bars transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams in public secondary schools and colleges while a challenge to the law continues in the lower courts. The West Virginia legislature passed H.B.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. Baltimore and Incinerator Operator Settled Lawsuit over Local Air Law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful.

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Law 360

JULY 18, 2022

Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 27, 2023

On June 3, President Joe Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, a law passed to raise the federal debt ceiling. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, the act also included a provision that ordered federal agencies to issue any permits needed to complete the pipeline. As a concession to Sen. But on July 10, the U.S.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]).

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LexForti

JULY 26, 2021

In another more recent case, a complaint was launched against actor Amitabh Bachchan for singing the national anthem for 1 min 22 sec instead of the 52 seconds as prescribed by our law. But they are not laws. Asian countries including Singapore and Malaysia have their own specific national anthem law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. From health care to finance to environmental pollutants, administrative agencies use highly trained experts to interpret and carry out federal laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch expressed sympathy for the challengers’ arguments, but they noted that because the litigation is moving quickly in the lower court, they are unlikely to be affected by the rule for now. The challengers pointed to the court’s 2022 decision in West Virginia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Three transgender teens, their families, and a Memphis physician, along with the Biden administration, contend that the law violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and should be examined with the higher degree of legal scrutiny required in such cases. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in upholding the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2025

Last year, the justices took a major step to weaken the power of administrative agencies when they overturned the Chevron doctrine, which significantly curtailed the power of agencies to interpret the laws they implement. Congress, the coalition asserts, has outlined the controlling general policies that are the basis for the law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 103. 3:17 -cv-00123 (W.D.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The Biden administration and other litigants then forced a reconsideration of that decision. Bruen is a virtual heart attack for gun control advocates.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 23, 2023

US District Judge Irene Berger dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday aimed at preventing former President Donald Trump from appearing on West Virginia’s primary ballot next year. The post West Virginia federal judge dismisses lawsuit blocking Trump’s name on ballot appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MAY 1, 2024

Senator Joe Machin, a Democrat from West Virginia who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, criticized the new rule, saying, “This will only lead to more costly delays and litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. The court found that, as pled, the complaint was “premised solely on state law” and that City of New York v. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. The West Virginia majority opinion suggests a two-prong framework for the major questions doctrine. (A Env’t Prot. On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court applied the major questions doctrine in Biden v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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. West Virginia v. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. Jewell , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

28 in West Virginia v. 22): Whether a federal law that bars on tribal lands any gaming activities “prohibited by the laws of the State of Texas” bans any kind of gambling prohibited under state law, or whether it goes further and also prohibits any gaming that the state regulates. West Virginia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But the court’s decision could also have a legal impact well beyond this case, as the justices weigh issues such as when states can go to court to contest federal policies and how courts should interpret laws giving power to federal agencies. She relied on the HEROES Act , a law passed after the Sept. In a brief unsigned order on Dec.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.” At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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