SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

From a practical perspective, the court’s resolution of Cummings might well affect the availability of emotional distress damages under additional federal anti-discrimination laws — including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. In the 2002 case Barnes v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.” County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 2CCV-20-0000283 (Haw.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

But the Court rejected arguments that the government could be forced to meet more specific renewable energy and energy efficiency targets on the grounds that such sectoral measures cannot be independently directly linked to ecological damage. Notre Affaire à Tous and Others v. Plaintiffs challenge two aspects of the regulations.

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