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Southwest Religious Training Sanction Needed, Court Told

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A Southwest Airlines flight attendant said the company's in-house lawyers won't be hurt if they're forced to sit through a religious liberties class led by right-wing Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, urging a Texas federal judge to not pause his ruling mandating that training in her religious bias suit.

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A fast-moving argument over medication abortion

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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine , about the agency’s 2016 and 2021 actions easing access to the abortion drug mifepristone. Protesters carry signs from the Alliance Defending Freedom, the group representing the challengers. Protesters for and against abortion gathered outside the court.

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Court schedules abortion pill case for March argument session

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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine , which will be heard together, headlines the March calendar. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine & Danco v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (Mar. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (Mar. 18 and ends on Mar. Vullo (Mar.

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

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According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. Khan Cement Company v. What are the “Rights of Nature”?

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure. The federal district court for the Northern District of Oklahoma denied non-federal defendants’ motion to dismiss a landowner’s lawsuit claiming that the U.S.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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The court again rejected EPA’s argument that the obligation was discretionary as well as the argument that the coal companies that brought the action did not have standing. Company Owner Pleaded Guilty to Using Funds for Carbon Sequestration Study for Personal Use. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , No. 451962/2016 (N.Y. Oregon Wild v.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. A day later the federal defendants filed a petition for writ of mandamus in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals requesting a stay of the proceedings in the district court.

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