SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Monsanto’s argument that it could not have violated California’s duty to warn because the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded under the labeling provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act that the herbicide did not pose “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. However, this is now a defamation action which could present significant challenges based on the elements for the tort.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Second, the court found that EPA “correctly and consistently” interpreted the Clean Air Act to permit both regulation of a source’s hazardous air pollutant emissions under Section 112 and emissions of other pollutants under Section 111(d). Colorado Court Ruled on Venue for Colorado Local Governments’ Climate Change Claims.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

General Land Office of the State of Texas v. The Oslo District Court ruled in favor of the Norwegian Government on January 4, 2018, reasoning that, “[e]missions of CO2 abroad from oil and gas exported from Norway are irrelevant when assessing whether the Decision entails a violation of Article 112.”. 19-50178 (5th Cir.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Resolute Forest Products, Inc.

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