SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

The Supreme Court instructed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to consider whether counsel’s inadequate performance had prejudiced Andrus – that is, whether but for counsel’s deficient performance, the mitigating evidence might have prompted at least one juror to opt for a sentence of life without parole rather than the death penalty.

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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. The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance. A-3393-15T4 et al. June 22, 2017).

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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. In re Enbridge Energy, LP , No. __ (Minn. 97182-0 (Wash. Sacchi et al. Argentina et al. (UN

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

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. The action involved closing valves on pipelines in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After graduating from Yale in 2001, she spent a year working as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., 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. Kruger went from the D.C.

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