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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure. The appellate court also found that even if the trial court erred, the error was harmless because the State proved both acts beyond a reasonable doubt. Zepeda , No. 80593-2-I (Wash.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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And when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case on June 23, Roberts was on board. The decision was noteworthy not only because it struck down the New York law, which mirrored similar restrictions in California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, but for its methodology. And in West Virginia v.

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