At the Lectern

JULY 5, 2021

(see: Supreme Court reinstates $414 million judgment, validating waiver of Hague Convention service requirement ; also here ). The list of cert denials doesn’t include those concerning California Supreme Court decisions without opinions, such as summary denials of habeas corpus or writ petitions.).

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Failure to comply with the law is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison and $1,000 in fines. The US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana agreed and issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the law. Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Amy St.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

Kavanaugh’s opinion explicitly validates that practice, but at the same time appears to render it superfluous by saying that Greer’s stipulation under the 1997 Supreme Court decision in Old Chief v. United States that he had previously been convicted of a felony constituted competent evidence of such knowledge.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

The US Constitution says that Justices may serve as long as they exhibit “good behavior” and can face impeachment for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” But despite all the doom and gloom, the latest SCOTUS decisions are not the end of the story.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). order setting schedule Mar. 1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. They seek a court decision setting aside government approvals of the power plant.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

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.

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