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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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Supreme Court in 2017, but the justices sent the case back for another look after their ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop , the Colorado case. She sought compensatory damages for “humiliation, frustration, and emotional distress.” The case will be argued sometime next fall. The end of the road for Arlene’s Flowers.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , 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. Tenth Circuit Ordered Coal Company to Stop Preparation for Mining in Colorado Roadless Area.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Colorado recommended that the court grant an underground coal mine operator’s motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act citizen suit that alleged the mine required a Prevention of Significant Deterioration construction permit and a Title V operating permit. 1:20-cv-03817 (D.D.C.