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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

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5] For the reasons discussed below, more firms – and their legal and other advisers– should follow them. Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] Academic readers of this blog should too! 2] See, e.g., Jacqueline M.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule Must Respond to Emerging Legal Risks

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Ultimately, the SEC will have to anticipate these types of legal challenges in finalizing a durable rule. When the SEC initially proposed the rule, the Supreme Court had not yet embraced the Major Questions Doctrine (MQD), a new doctrine that constrains the function of the administrative state. Other legal challenges have also arisen.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. Following the West Virginia decision, analysis of the MQD has proliferated as legal scholars grapple with the doctrine’s lack of definition. Env’t Prot. As Justice Kagan points out in her Biden v.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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She spent the year between college and law school as a reporter and researcher at Time magazine in New York. In the 17 years following her graduation from law school, Jackson held a variety of legal jobs. She attained three federal clerkships, worked at four elite law firms, and served two stints with the Sentencing Commission.

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