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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

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The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Civil law cases.

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In back-to-back cases, justices will scrutinize traditional limits on challenges to agency proceedings

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The first case involves Axon Enterprise, an Arizona company that makes police body cameras and other technology products for law enforcement. The ALJ imposed a substantial monetary penalty and barred her from practice before the SEC, but the decision was vacated after the Supreme Court ruled in Lucia v.

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Becerra’s Blunder: Did the Administration Allow Fauci and other Officials to Operate Illegally?

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A House Committee is alleging that the Administration failed to properly reappoint directors at the National Institutes of Health. For reasons the Biden administration has yet to explain, it appears to have ignored the law, according to the House committee. That, too, is not allowed under federal law. Rand Paul (R-Ky.),

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Tick, Tick, Tick…: The Supreme Court Readies an Explosive Docket for 2022

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After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The Biden administration and other litigants then forced a reconsideration of that decision. Agency deference. Chevron USA Inc.

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Divided court declines to reinstate Biden’s immigration guidelines, sets case for argument this fall

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The justices will hear the case in late November without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in. The justices left in place a district-court ruling striking down the policy, which means that the Biden administration cannot implement it while it waits for the Supreme Court to hear argument and issue a decision.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Her father then went to law school, eventually becoming the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board. Her mother became an administrator and served as the principal at a public magnet school for 14 years. She spent the year between college and law school as a reporter and researcher at Time magazine in New York.

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Justices probe states’ effort to defend Trump immigration rule after Biden stopped defending it in court

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The 2019 rule at the center of the case broadened the definition of “public charge,” a term in immigration law for people who are ineligible for a green card if the government believes that they are likely to rely too heavily on government aid. alleging that the repeal of the law violated federal administrative law.