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Court wrestles with Superfund contribution puzzle

SCOTUSBlog

United States featured sharply different interpretations of the contribution provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or the Superfund statute. These are the kinds of entities that can be expected to have good legal advice about how environmental laws interact with CERCLA.”.

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SpaceX Leaves Delaware; Should Others Follow?

Strictly Business

Our view is that the court reasonably applied Delaware law, which resulted in the application of the “entire fairness” standard. We believe the Musk decision was a reasonable application of the law in Delaware, and that Delaware remains the preeminent state for incorporating business entities. Should companies relocate from Delaware?

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Delaware’s Corporate Crack-Up: The “Great” Business Exodus and Its Legal Fallout

Fordham Law News

Delaware has long been the preferred state of incorporation for corporations due to its business friendly legal framework, its specialized Court of Chancery, and its well-developed and unified body of corporate law. Additionally, Delawares diminishing influence could disrupt the uniformity of corporate law. 2] See id. [3] 27 Fordham J.

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Tribal self-governance at center of dispute over federal health care costs

SCOTUSBlog

Under federal law, the tribe’s contract with the Indian Health Service meant that it received federal funding for the programs that it operated – the amount that the agency would have otherwise spent on the programs if it had administered them itself. In Becerra v.

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Guest Blog: Connecting Data Centers to the Grid: An Innovative and Controversial Proposal from AEP Ohio

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AEP Ohio replies that the comments from the DCC and Ohio Manufacturers take “a tortured reading of Ohio law” by interpreting the duty to serve as absolute and unbridled. FERC, too, has been struggling with this question. characterize the service that the public utility is obligated to provide as being “reasonable.”

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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. Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. Baltimore and Incinerator Operator Settled Lawsuit over Local Air Law.

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Wyoming Considers Hate Crime Legislation

The Crime Report

Wyoming legislators are developing two hate crime bills for next year’s legislative session, The Associated Press reported. The delay is especially poignant since the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in 1998 prompted at least 47 states have adopted hate crime legislation, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.