Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 1, 2023

Supreme Court held that death row inmate Rodney Reed did not wait too long to seek DNA testing of the evidence in his case. According to the Court majority, when a prisoner pursues state post-conviction DNA testing through the state-provided litigation process, the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C.

Statute 52

Statute Litigation Litigating Cause of Action 52

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Federal Court Vacated Permits for Methanol Refinery and Export Terminal, Citing Failure to Consider Indirect Cumulative Greenhouse Gas Impacts. The federal district court for the Western District of Washington vacated U.S.

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Court Government Litigation Litigating 55

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

Maine Federal Court Declined to Enjoin Work on Electric Transmission Project. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. A nonprofit organization challenged the environmental review for construction and demolition projects at the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing Installation at a regional airport in Madison.

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Court Government Technology Assisted Review Litigation 52

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. Northern Plains Resource Council v.

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Litigation Litigating Court Laws 40

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” Hawai‘i Supreme Court Upheld Denial of Request to Re-Open Order Approving Wind Power Purchase Agreement.

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Court Statute Litigation Litigating 45