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Revenge of the rescheduled cases: Congressional proxy voting, the ministerial exception, and more

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Morrissey-Berru , under which employees deemed “ministers” of religious institutions are not covered by various employment and discrimination laws. This case involves Margaret DeWeese-Boyd, an associate professor of social work at Gordon College, a private Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, Massachusetts. Next up is Texas v.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

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Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration. In 2021 the Biden Administration reversed the Trump-era rollbacks and instituted the strictest-ever vehicle GHG emissions standards in a move aimed at preventing 3.1

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” Massachusetts High Court Upheld Transmission Line Approval. In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , SCOT-20-0000309 (Haw.

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