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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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So Congress, for the first time, passed a law authorizing the chief justice to hire an administrative assistant. From 1972 to 1985, Cannon served as Burger’s assistant, helping him implement various changes to modernize the court. In June, the court ruled in R.G. & Harris Funder Homes v. EEOC that it does.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit also rejected two arguments by coal companies against the ACE Rule. First, the court found that EPA made and retained the requisite endangerment finding for regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Colorado Court Ruled on Venue for Colorado Local Governments’ Climate Change Claims.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The dissent contended that “a federal court need not manage all of the delicate foreign relations and regulatory minutiae implicated by climate change to offer real relief, and the mere fact that this suit cannot alone halt climate change does not mean that it presents no claim suitable for judicial resolution.” Richardson v.