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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

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Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The Pennsylvania case. Constitution.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the Eastern District of California held that more analysis of the impacts climate change would have on a water transfer program for the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta was required under NEPA. In a letter to the court on March 2, the parties asked the court to defer further briefing on the U.S.-based

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