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MAY 3, 2021

20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the New Jersey state prison system. Rather than reaching the merits, the district court dismissed the case on procedural grounds. The district court ruled that Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue and the Federal Circuit then affirmed.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Six district courts presided over these decisions. AstraZeneca won in the District of Delaware, while Sanofi Aventis and Novo Nordisk lost at the District of New Jersey. Both courts found the statute to be ambiguous, but only the Delaware court vacated HRSA’s penalties; the New Jersey court remanded the issue to HRSA.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 3, 2023

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. who oversees the federal judiciary in addition to leading the nation’s highest court, released the federal judiciary’s year end report for 2022 on Friday. . Despite the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Roberts, Jr., Wade was leaked in May 2022. schools. .

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , a five-justice majority on Wednesday allowed a military veteran’s lawsuit against his former state-agency employer to go forward, rejecting the state’s argument that it was shielded by sovereign immunity. A Texas court of appeals agreed. New Jersey. Share In Torres v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. The Texas supreme court declined to hear the case. Share In Torres v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

In June, the Sabin Center, in collaboration with APKS, officially launched a new version of the climate litigation charts at [link]. The new website is more easily navigable and searchable than the prior version, and for many older cases includes updated information and documents. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 21, 2021

On Monday, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Caniglia v. Although the district court ruled that the government must have reasonable suspicion that a device contains digital contraband because of the privacy concerns of electronic searches, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed. Merchant v.

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JURIST

JULY 14, 2022

The injunction came after the Supreme Court’s leaked decision overturning Roe v. Wade —the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion. At the end of June, the Supreme Court did indeed overrule Roe v. Wade in their decision in Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Murphy involves New Jersey and New York’s Waterfront Commission Compact.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As the first Director of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Advisory Committee on Professionalism, and Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Practice Management Program , Heidi can make a better case than anyone for why management of a successful practice is directly tied to the wellbeing of the lawyers running that practice.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 4, 2023

* Alito and Jackson snipe at each other over CFPB funding argument with Justice Jackson focusing on whether the agency violates some part of the Constitution and Justice Alito demanding some historical precedent as if Alexander Hamilton and the Bank of the United States didn't exist. LegalCheek ] The post Morning Docket: 10.04.23

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. All shaped the court in their own ways. The court dismissed the case on procedural grounds.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. It is named after the Supreme Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals. 20-1045 (D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE Rule) for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants rested on an erroneous interpretation of the Clean Air Act that barred EPA from considering measures beyond those that apply at and to an individual source.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Share If the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term had a soundtrack, it might be “With or Without You,” the 1987 anthem by the Irish rock group U2. The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. An abortion prelude.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of New York City’s lawsuit seeking climate change damages from oil companies. The Second Circuit’s decision largely followed the reasoning of the district court’s 2018 decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, he will take his mission to diversify professional representation to the next level, putting a former federal public defender on the highest court in the land. Sentencing Commission. Sentencing Commission.

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