ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. The court rejected DLNR’s argument that a 2017 Hawaii Supreme Court decision requiring environmental review for aquarium fishing only applied to fishing with fine-meshed nets. Zepeda , No. 80593-2-I (Wash.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S. In 2023, the Supreme Court of Hawaii held the opposite in City & County of Honolulu v. It is of note that the precedent concerns common law claims and courts may approach state statutes differently.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

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. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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