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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com. Here are the additions to the U.S.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

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Instead, we’ve acted like our law is created and owned by the companies that publish it. On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a tractor-trailer determined to occupy my lane. I hit the brakes. The truck kept rolling. This was early 2015, on my commute to Cambridge, Mass.,

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The Slippery Notion of Boycotts in the Anti-ESG Movement

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The modern American notion of a boycott stirs the moral imagination, conjuring images of the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott , when Black citizens refused to ride on city buses in 1950’s Alabama, or the 1990’s consumer boycott of Nike to protest the company’s human rights violations.

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Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award

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Kathy Hochul has rushed to assure businesses that there is “nothing to worry about” after the corporate public execution of Trump and his company. Kathy Hochul has rushed to assure businesses that there is “nothing to worry about” after the corporate public execution of Trump and his company. New York Gov.

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Trumpunity: Sunstein Calls For Broader Use Of Defamation Lawsuit To Curtail “Fake News”

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Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. ” This example are allegations of widespread voting fraud tied to Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems. We recently discussed how Trump critics appear to be adopting his tactics and rhetoric as they prepare to take over the Executive Branch and possibly Congress.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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Share Sandra Day O’Connor, a self-described “Arizona cowgirl” who made history as the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, died on Friday in Phoenix, Arizona. She was 93. The cause was complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease, and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court announced.

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