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This week’s relists: preemption of consumer protection laws, bankruptcy claims, COVID mandates and. Chevron deference again?

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The case involves an insurance company’s attempt to block its insured’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan, which establishes a trust for certain current and future asbestos personal-injury liabilities. But the plan treats holders of insured and uninsured asbestos personal-injury claims differently. Two days earlier, the U.S.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) asked the federal district court for the District of Columbia for voluntary remand without vacatur of environmental assessments and findings of no significant impact in three cases challenging oil and gas lease sales in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. On July 30, 2021, the U.S.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the District of Columbia requesting that the court order the U.S. May 5, 2021). Lawsuit Sought Protection for 10 Species Under Endangered Species Act. Fish and Wildlife Service to publish proposed rules to list 10 species as endangered or threatened.

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