SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. City and County of San Francisco, California , 20-1775. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Epic Systems Corp v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Many of the crew were from California but the set is in New Mexico. The California code contains an ample criminal negligence or manslaughter provision: PART 1. This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.” Walgreen Hastings Co., Legg, 441 P.2d 2d 912 (Cal.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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. California v. California v. California v. Wheeler , No. 20-1357 (D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In 2019, the Wyoming federal court stayed these proceedings challenging the Waste Prevention Rule while a challenge to the Trump administration’s repeal of the rule was pending in the federal district court for the Northern District of California. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. California v. 19-1189 (U.S.

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