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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. District Court Rejected Climate Change Arguments in Challenge to Listing Determination for Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout. The federal district court for the District of Colorado rejected arguments that the U.S. Rhode Island v.

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MSNBC Analyst Calls for Liability for Boebert and Carlson … for the Colorado Shootings

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Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Fox News host Tucker Carlson to face civil liability for their commentary on transgender policies or controversies after the recent tragic shooting in Colorado. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. The Court in cases like New York Times v. In Brandenburg v.

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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.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In addition, the court found that the company had failed to show that the alleged RICO violations proximately caused injury to its business or property. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. On October 4 , the federal district court for the Northern District of California vacated the U.S.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility filed a complaint in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging BLM’s approval of 2,067 oil and gas leases covering almost two million acres of public lands across five states—Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.