SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

This week,we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Barack Obama had the authority as president to expand a national monument in the forests of Oregon into land overseen by the Interior Department. An Oregon-based timber company went to federal court in Oregon to challenge the monument’s expansion.

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MyCase

APRIL 13, 2021

Include sections for key events such as important meetings, top tips for effectively working remotely, and give shout-outs to employees who have recently gone the extra mile for their colleagues and/or the company. She has worked with over 300 law firms in a wide range of practice areas across the United States.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Local natural gas distribution lines—which connect consumers to interstate pipelines—are owned and operated by local distribution companies, which are typically regulated by state public utility commissions.

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 30, 2021

Nike is seeking monetary damages, as well as injunctive relief to bar the defendants from further infringing its marks and to force the defendants to deliver the infringing footwear for destruction.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Many companies thrived thanks to the pandemic-induced accelerated adoption of tech. Lots of investment money flowed into companies, with the promise of fueling even better products and services. We are stuck in a perpetual state of betwixt and between, a kind of innovation limbo. I should be more optimistic.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners. Two other states—Texas and North Dakota—filed an amicus brief supporting EPA; the petitioners opposed their participation on procedural grounds. State Air Resources Board , No. S241948 (Cal. June 28, 2017).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Forest Service’s decision not to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) for the expansion of a ski area in Oregon. Oregon Wild v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

17 with two cases that could upend the functional power of the federal administrative state. 11, 2001, attacks to bar certain people whom the government considers a risk to national security from boarding commercial flights into U.S. United States Trustee v. Share The justices returned to the bench on Jan. Garland and Garland v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 protects whistleblowers who report financial wrongdoing at publicly traded companies. United States , 21-1557 Issue : Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant’s sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted the defendant. UBS Securities, LLC.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Many companies thrived thanks to the pandemic-induced accelerated adoption of tech. Lots of investment money flowed into companies, with the promise of fueling even better products and services. We are stuck in a perpetual state of betwixt and between, a kind of innovation limbo. I should be more optimistic.

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Per Nike, by way of the Mirror device, Lululemon “makes, uses, offers for sale, sells, and/or imports into the United States products that practice the claimed inventions” of its patents, and thus, is infringing claims of the ssserted patents.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Share The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether an Oregon city can enforce its ban on public camping against homeless people. The district court agreed with them and barred the city from enforcing its ban during the day without providing notice 24 hours in advance, as well as at night. In Starbucks v.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Part 1 ) ( Part 2 ) Ed Walters, CEO at Fastcase, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Law School/Cornell Tech Ed Walters is the CEO of Fastcase , a legal intelligence company based in Washington, D.C. The bar had been raised, the conversation changed overnight.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that the board members blocking constituents on Facebook and Twitter constituted state action. John involves a lawsuit against the agrochemical company Monsanto, alleging false and misleading advertising used to sell the popular weed killer RoundUp. The state of Oregon now seeks review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Portland, Oregon. Source: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives. Oregon Supreme Court Said Public Trust Doctrine Did Not Impose Obligation to Protect Resources from Climate Change. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. FEATURED CASE.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 24, 2022

With CloudApp, I click a button in my menu bar, choose what I need, and hit record. Tom Lambotte (@LegalMacIT) is CEO of GlobalMacIT , a company specializing in providing IT support to Mac-based law firms. In the past, I wrote out long, detailed emails (that were often overwhelming to the reader), which took a looong time.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. On the same day, the companies filed an application for a stay in the U.S. On September 13, the companies filed an expedited motion for stay pending appeal in the First Circuit.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW, which is Feb. The companies listed below, in alphabetical order, are: Ai.Law. Target customer: trust companies and trust and estate firms/attorneys (all sizes.) Voting is now open!

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Thanksgivings tend to reflect the state of our society for better or worse. In Portland, Oregon, Chester Hester, 24, Nicole Noriega, 38, and Bailey Willack, 23, allegedly spent Thanksgiving morning vandalizing business by smashing windows and spray-painting graffiti on banks and other businesses.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE Rule) for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants rested on an erroneous interpretation of the Clean Air Act that barred EPA from considering measures beyond those that apply at and to an individual source. WildEarth Guardians v. Mountain Coal Co. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

States and Coal Company Sought Review of D.C. The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

State of Washington ex rel. After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline. Haskell v. 98719-0 (Wash. July 15, 2021).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. The court also found that the states could establish standing as a result of “special solicitude.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of New York City’s lawsuit seeking climate change damages from oil companies. The Second Circuit’s decision largely followed the reasoning of the district court’s 2018 decision.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Ninth Circuit therefore reversed the orders of the federal district court for the District of Oregon denying the government’s motions to dismiss and for summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings. United States , No. General Land Office of the State of Texas v. 18-36082 (9th Cir. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. 19-1230 et al.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Actress Fran Drescher used the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards to call for a host of initiatives from eliminating all single-use plastics to boycotting any states that do not meet SAG’s view of supporting “freedom, diversity, inclusion and democracy.” Drescher’s call for boycotting conservative states is nothing new.

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