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Georgia poll workers file federal defamation suit against Giuliani and OAN over election fraud claims

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Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the District of Columbia cited failures to address climate change as one of the bases for finding that a biological opinion for continued authorization of the Southeast U.S. District of Columbia v. shrimp fisheries in federal waters was arbitrary and capricious. County of Maui v.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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On February 7, 2021, the federal district court for the District of Columbia denied the motion by Red Lake Band, White Earth Band, and other plaintiffs’ for a preliminary injunction in their case challenging U.S. In re Enbridge Energy, LP , Nos. A20-1071 (Minn. Army Corps of Engineers permits for the pipeline project.