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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. She sought compensatory damages for “humiliation, frustration, and emotional distress.”

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Colorado recommended that the court grant an underground coal mine operator’s motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act citizen suit that alleged the mine required a Prevention of Significant Deterioration construction permit and a Title V operating permit.