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SCOTUS Rules FOIA Exception Applies to Environmental Opinion

Constitutional Law Reporter

Sierra Club, 592 U. S. _ (2021) , the U.S. Supreme Court held that the deliberative process privilege provides protection from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to in-house draft biological opinions that are both predecisional and deliberative, even if the drafts reflect the agencies’ last views about a proposal.

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The Crypto Wars and the Future of Financial Privacy

Fordham Law News

7] Bitcoin’s revolutionary promise was to offer a method for exchanging value online without sharing personal, private information with financial intermediaries that are subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”)—information that the government can readily access without a warrant under the Supreme Court’s Third-Party Doctrine. [8]

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit Vacated Trump EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. The court therefore vacated and remanded the ACE Rule—which repealed the 2015 Clean Power Plan rule and in its place adopted a replacement rule that relied only on heat-rate improvements at individual plants.