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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Oceana, Inc. Ross , No. 1:12-cv-00041 (D.D.C. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 12, 2020).

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Free exercise, greenhouse-gas regulation, and a slew of other relists from the long conference

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. Three cases involving lawsuits over allegations that police officers used excessive force. Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 27 conference).