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New Report on Liability Considerations for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal in the U.S.

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

These statutes could impose liability on mCDR project proponents who violate the laws by failing to comply with the relevant statutory requirements. Such violations could result in both civil and criminal penalties, with some statutes imposing fines for each day a violation continues. judge-made) law. judge-made) law.

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Update: Upcoming Hearings on Motions to Dismiss Climate Change Nuisance Cases in California and New York

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

There are eight other climate change tort cases pending: six alleging nuisance and a variety of other state common law violations in California courts, one claiming state public nuisance along with other state common law and statutory violations in Colorado, and one claiming state public nuisance and trespass in Washington.

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The Illusion of Action: Cuomo’s New Gun Manufacturer Liability Law is a Colossal Misfire

JonathanTurley

The New York law focuses on an exception under the law if a company “knowingly violated a state or federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing” of firearms. Beretta , the Second Circuit left open what a “predicate statute” might look like for the exception, but it rejected the prior nuisance statute.

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At a vestige of the Manhattan Project, a fight over workers’ compensation and intergovernmental immunity

SCOTUSBlog

Washington. Congress passed the law after the Supreme Court held that states could not apply workers’ compensation statutes to federal facilities. Washington implicitly contemplates such situations. The United States argues that the change in Washington’s law will be exorbitantly expensive to the federal government.

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Whether “bump stocks” are “machineguns,” and a very specific arbitration issue

SCOTUSBlog

Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. In Cargill , the en banc U.S.

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The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’

The Crime Report

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman, who is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Compulsory training on this “duty” would augment its effectiveness, Kaufman adds.

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The long conference’s relists

SCOTUSBlog

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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