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

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In an article for Woodward Academy, a private school in Georgia that O’Brien attended, he reflected on his early days as a Supreme Court reporter: There was no internet in those days, nor even cable television. Millions of Americans would time their day to be home for the evening news. In June, the court ruled in R.G. &

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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 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) decision denying a petition to delist the golden-cheeked warbler was arbitrary and capricious because the FWS applied “an inappropriately heightened” standard to its review of the delisting petition. NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND NOTICES.