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

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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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Colorado Candidate Accused of Yielding to Blackmail While on the Aspen City Council

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There is a bizarre political controversy out of Colorado that may raise some interesting defamation and criminal law questions. Both the Colorado GOP and Rep. Here is the criminal extortion statute: 18-3-207. Yet, CRS 16-5-401 would seem to set a three-year statute of limitations for extortion cases.

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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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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The federal district court for the District of Colorado rejected arguments that the U.S. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim. Rhode Island v.

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Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023

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Bowman , which addresses the scope of federal criminal statutes, into its current extraterritoriality framework. Meanwhile, lower courts struggled with how to fit the Supreme Court’s 1922 decision in United States v. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court interpreted the aiding and abetting provision of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in Twitter, Inc.

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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.

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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. Louisiana v. Biden , No. May 10, 2021).

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