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

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Under federal law, cases filed in state court can be transferred – the technical term is “removed” – to federal court if they meet one of several criteria. In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal.

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Palin v. NYT: New Evidence Suggests the New York Times Ignored Internal Objections to Palin Editorial

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According to the Daily Mail , Palin’s counsel questioned Times’ reporter Elizabeth Williamson , who wrote the first draft of the article. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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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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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The case was currently pending before the Fourth Circuit after a federal district court in Maryland held that Maryland law preempted the local law. The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure. Zepeda , No. 80593-2-I (Wash.

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