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Maryland Homeowner Kills Intruder in Latest Castle Doctrine Case

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This includes the Montana case of Brice Harper, 24, gunned down Dan Fredenberg, 40, in his garage. I do not believe that Maryland has a specific Castle Doctrine statute. Fredenberg, 40, was coming over to confront Harper about having an affair with his wife, Heather Fredenberg. ” The rule is.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Montana Federal Court Allowed Some Coal Mining Activity to Take Place While Federal Agency Completed Required NEPA Review. The company said the injunction would “[i]n a matter of weeks … cause severe consequences to the mine and its employees, in an area of Montana that can ill-afford economic displacement.” CP18-5 (FERC Oct.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. The federal district court for the District of Montana granted plaintiffs’ motion to supplement the administrative record in a lawsuit challenging U.S Williams , No.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Bernhardt , No. 4:18-cv-05712 (N.D. Washington , No. 22O152 (U.S. 5, 2020).

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Montana Federal Court Found Failure to Take a Hard Look at Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Review of Coal Mine Expansion. The federal district court for the District of Montana found flaws in an updated environmental assessment for a mining plan modification that extended the life of the Spring Creek Mine, a surface coal mine in Montana.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. Sierra Club v. 20-2195 (1st Cir.

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Justices won’t intervene in dispute over transgender rights and bathrooms

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corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all. And in the second case, Montana and Wyoming v. In August 2020, then-Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall suggested that the justices put CACI’s case on hold until their ruling in Nestle v.