ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In a subtle but meaningful shift, the environmental impact review process in New York City is beginning to more systematically consider the potential effects of a changing climate on proposed projects, not just the effects that a project might have on the environment. Strell, Associate Director & Fellow. Background.

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The Crime Report

MAY 13, 2021

Aborn has been a player in the New York City criminal justice world since 1979, when he began his legal career as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Much of Aborn’s work over the years has focused on reforming the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Richard Aborn.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For example, in a study published in the Journal of Urban Health , Papachristos and two co-authors looked at young men with an elevated risk of gunshot victimization in Boston and found a social network of about eight hundred individuals. it is really hard to create a whole new system. It actually does spread like pathogens.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

City and County of San Francisco, California , 20-1212 , concerns when a takings claim becomes ripe for review. The city twice denied the couple’s requests for an exemption, but the U.S. City of Chicago, Illinois , 20-1214 , petitioner Fred Eychaner owned property in Chicago’s “River West” area. City of New London.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

At last week’s conference, the Supreme Court had 472 petitions and applications before it – including three new relists, which yielded (so far) zero grants. But the number of new relists is much higher: The court will be taking a second look at nine cases. The most high-profile case of the bunch is City of Grants Pass, Oregon v.

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Foley Hoag LLP

JANUARY 28, 2022

On January 7, New York State Senator Alessandra Biaggi (D) and Assemblywoman Anna R. Kelles (D) introduced the Fashion Sustainability Act into the New York State Legislature. Fashion and sustainability non-profits such as the New Standard Institute have stated their support for the bill. Sustainability reports.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

In October 2021, Danielle Thomas, former exotic dancer known as “Pole Assassin” (and the girlfriend of Texas special teams coach Jeff Banks), found herself embroiled in a Halloween tort after the monkey previously used in her act bit a wandering child at the house of horror she created for Halloween. They are seeking $150,000.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In Berea, Ohio, the promoters of the 7 Floors of Hell haunted house at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds appreciate realism but one employee took it a bit too far. The injury was not serious since the boy was treated at the scene and continued through the haunted house. The question is what is in the scope of employment.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The report was issued after two rounds of comments (the questions that were asked in each request for comments are detailed in our stories here and here ) and three roundtables held in three different cities where representatives of music companies provided ideas on the questions asked (I participated in the Nashville session).

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The first deputy commissioner for equity and inclusion in the New York City Police Department (NYPD). She has argued that police need to cede authority to communities in ways that departments have traditionally resisted. In smaller agencies, you can do pilots much quicker. Denver’s first female police captain.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2019, 1,632 incarcerated individuals in New York State Corrections Facilities tested positive for buprenorphine, and were punished as a result—in what the state’s Inspector General at the time later called a “devastating” violation of due process. Public hospitals in New York City ended the practice in November 2020.].

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added two new cases , both involving Native Americans, to its docket for this term. Two new grants on Native American sovereignty. Denezpi argues that the dual-sovereignty doctrine does not apply because the Court of Indian Offenses is a federal agency. In Denezpi v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. On September 5, 2019, a federal district court in Colorado ruled that oil and gas companies had not met their burden of showing that federal jurisdiction existed for climate change-related claims asserted by Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder. BP p.l.c. , West Virginia v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

” __ Another case in the court is a cautionary tale about those creating their own haunted houses. Thomas converted her home into a house of horrors, including a maze. She was not apart of any haunted house, the kid did not have permission to be on the other side of my property!” particularly those with ravenous monkeys.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Now, a new slew of negligence and strict liability claims are expected across the country. _. 2018 Thanksgiving ended with a bang at the Lamadrid house. A recent survey of New York doctors found that 60 percent saw an increase in ER visits for cooking wounds and turkey carving accidents. He is clearly off the list.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

They argued that Congress had not clearly authorized EPA to exercise such “expansive” powers and that the D.C. Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. West Virginia v.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We use AI to understand intake conversations, tailor legal documents, and then route them for in-house counsel review and corporate approvals. How we’re unique: Conversation-driven intake for the internal customers of in-house legal departments. Headquarters: New York, N.Y. Demo video: Video on page: [link].

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We use AI to understand intake conversations, tailor legal documents, and then route them for in-house counsel review and corporate approvals. How we’re unique: Conversation-driven intake for the internal customers of in-house legal departments. Headquarters: New York, N.Y. Demo video: Video on page: [link].

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. The headline here is that the Second Circuit found that Section 115 authorizes the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

A generation of studies had already documented that a relatively small group of places produce much of the crime in any given city. Then I did a study in New York and I found that about 5 percent of the streets produced 50 percent of the crime, and about 1 percent produced 25 percent. Take stop-question-and-frisk.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here is the column: Author Salman Rushdie, still recovering from the latest assassination attempt , once said freedom of speech must include “the freedom to offend” or “it ceases to exist.” That was evident at the start of a recent House hearing on the government’s role in censoring citizens on social media. City of St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. United States , No.

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Foley Hoag LLP

JULY 20, 2020

Leaked documents published by the New York Times in November 2019 reveal the cruel extent of the crackdown. Chinese authorities have thrown one to two million adult Uyghurs into “re-education” camps, with the goal of stamping out Uyghur culture, and with it any possibility of a separatist movement emerging in the region.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

The idea goes that service agencies other than police could and should respond to non-violent calls related to mental health, housing and other issues. Nearly two dozen cities have since taken steps to reduce police funding or redirect funds toward other services — though the 50 largest U.S. Berkeley, Ca., It’s that simple.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

She spent the year between college and law school as a reporter and researcher at Time magazine in New York. Dale , the court agreed with the Scouts that New Jersey could not force the group to accept a gay man as a scoutmaster. Early life and career. But in Boy Scouts of America v.

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