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Massachusetts court rules ExxonMobil cannot use anti-SLAPP law to dodge climate lawsuit

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Monday denied ExxonMobil Corp.’s The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a statement following the SJC’s decision affirming the rejection of ExxonMobil’s “ anti-SLAPP ” motion to dismiss by the Suffolk Superior Court.

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Lawsuit Says Woman was Kept in Hospice for Financial Gain

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Massachusetts superior court rules woman's hospice claim can move forward.

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

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Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet.

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In a first for climate nuisance claims, a Hawai‘i State Court allowed Honolulu to proceed with its case against fossil fuel companies

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Citing Massachusetts v. EPA , the court stated that states have “a legitimate interest in combatting the adverse effects of climate change.” Second, the court found no “significant conflict” between any “concrete and specific” federal policy or interest and the application of Hawai‘i law.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. ADDITION TO THE NON-U.S.

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In cases challenging affirmative action, court will confront wide-ranging arguments on history, diversity, and the role of race in America

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Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Two years after that ruling, the Harvard case went to trial before a federal district judge in Massachusetts. The test that it outlines is so vague, SFFA argues, that the only way to determine whether a university can meet it is through litigation.

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First Amendment questions and California arbitration battles

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Rollins challenges a Massachusetts law that makes it a felony to secretly record the speech of anyone other than a law enforcement officer, irrespective of motive. Next, we explore the bounds of the Federal Arbitration Act, with a pair of petitions arguing that California’s efforts to restrict arbitration agreements undermine federal law.

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