SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

An Oregon-based timber company went to federal court in Oregon to challenge the monument’s expansion. Meanwhile, a trade association representing the Pacific Northwest timber industry went to federal court in the District of Columbia with a similar challenge. But the D.C. On appeal, the U.S. United States and Murphy Co.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Federal Court Said NOAA Justified Redaction of Communications Between Climate Scientist and White House During Obama Administration.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners. Department of the Interior Secretarial Order No.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the District Court for the District of Columbia has caused a bit of a stir after a hearing in a criminal case where she called for briefing on the alternative grounds for the right to an abortion. That does not mean that the Court was right and many disagree with the holding.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The case promises to be a showdown between the Supreme Court and lower courts, which have been chipping away at the high court’s prior Second Amendment rulings. In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The federal government also is subject to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits the government and other covered entities like the District of Columbia from “substantially burden[ing]” a person’s exercise of religion. They also can refile if the lower court has not reached a decision by Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Glucksberg , a case in which he helped persuade the court to unanimously uphold Washington’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

After Chutkan denied that request in December, it was Smith who came to the Supreme Court , asking the justices to weigh in on Trump’s claim to immunity without waiting for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule on Trump’s appeal. The justices denied that request on Dec.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Today, 44 states and the District of Columbia have laws aiming to protect fetal development from drugs or alcohol. The National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a legal advocacy group, says Wisconsin’s fetal protection law is the most “egregious” of the civil statutes in the country. A court win — ‘then they took it away’ .

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 27, 2023

That provision, Section 324 of the act, also stripped federal courts of the power to review challenges to those permits and channeled all challenges to the constitutionality of the act to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. 19-1140 et al. Department of Transportation, and NHTSA.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday stayed an order from the US District Court for the District of Columbia blocking Title 42, a health policy used to deny migrants and asylum-seekers at the US border. The plaintiffs argue that Title 42 does not authorize deportation.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Notably, Sotomayor pointed out another allegedly “political” decision in the court’s recognition of an individual right to bear arms; she and Breyer both indicated a willingness to overturn the ruling in that case, District of Columbia v. The 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in Brown v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 1:21-cv-04807 (S.D.N.Y.).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. The federal district court for the Eastern District of California held that more analysis of the impacts climate change would have on a water transfer program for the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta was required under NEPA.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Empire Health Foundation did not mention Chevron at all, even though Chevron loomed large in the briefing for both cases, which involved agency interpretations of complex Medicare statutes. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

With respect to federal-officer jurisdiction, the district court noted that this case was similar to County of San Mateo v. in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court finding that the federal-officer removal statute did not provide jurisdiction. Chevron Corp.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Instead, Monday’s orders focused primarily on turning down appeals, including on issues like voting representation for the residents of the District of Columbia and funding for the wall along the U.S. A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. border with Mexico. In Robertson v. Personalweb Technologies v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

By law, the program is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands, but not in Puerto Rico or other U.S. Two lower courts ruled in favor of Vaello-Madero. Arguments at the Supreme Court. territories.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The court further found that EPCA’s legislative history did not support the plaintiff’s “expansive interpretation.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The court directed the parties to submit a proposed format for briefing within 30 days. Circuit to hold the cases in abeyance was to allow the federal district for the District of Columbia to resolve cases challenging NHTSA’s action that raise similar legal issues. One reason the petitioners asked the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”. Rudy Giuliani and U.S. ” .

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court also granted motions to strike the state law claims pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) statute. The court granted the company leave to amend its complaint with 21 days. Resolute Forest Products, Inc. Greenpeace International , No. 3:17 -cv-02824 (N.D.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003. Circuit to the Supreme Court, where she clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens during the 2003-04 term. After graduating from Yale in 2001, she spent a year working as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., Kruger went from the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. COUNT FIVE (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. Code § 22-1322 – Incitement to Riot).

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A different set of plaintiffs challenged the Trump EPA’s decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, as well as its adoption of the ACE Rule. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the repeal of the Clean Power Plan, vacated the ACE Rule, and sent the issue back to the EPA for additional proceedings.

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