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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. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Colorado recommended that the court grant an underground coal mine operator’s motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act citizen suit that alleged the mine required a Prevention of Significant Deterioration construction permit and a Title V operating permit. 1:20-cv-01342 (D.

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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.