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Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

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The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by the city of Baltimore against companies that produce fossil fuels, seeking to hold them responsible for their role in global warming. Baltimore asked the district court to send the case back to state court, and the district court agreed.

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

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As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States. All left an imprint on the court or the law. Some worked behind the scenes. A few attained modest fame.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Circuit also rejected two arguments by coal companies against the ACE Rule. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati . Wikimedia Commons. and non-U.S.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a U.S. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. and non-U.S.