JURIST
JUNE 21, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld the dismissal of Alexander Khochinsky’s suit against Poland for seeking his extradition over his possession of a painting allegedly taken from Poland by Nazi troops.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 15, 2023
Nineteen other states and the District of Columbia have similar laws. In the same year, a divided Supreme Court ruled in National Institute for Family and Life Advocates v. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: King v.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
The court was not persuaded that completion of construction of the pipeline would moot the appeals and concluded both that the Commission was not required to consider whether the appeal raised substantial issues and also that it was not clear that the appeals raised substantial questions that would override other factors to require a stay.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 8, 2021
The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.
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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
In addition, the court found that the company had failed to show that the alleged RICO violations proximately caused injury to its business or property. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. On October 4 , the federal district court for the Northern District of California vacated the U.S.
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