Feds cannot delay youth-led climate change case longer, Oregon judge rules The judge denied the United States’ attempt to delay a 2015 climate change lawsuit while recommending that the Ninth Circuit also deny the feds’ arguments for dismissal. 04/19/2024 - 3:34 pm | View Link
Federal judge tosses part of parents' LGBTQ+ rights case against Hilliard City Schools A federal judge dismissed parts of a federal lawsuit filed against Hilliard City Schools by a group of parents who have spent more than a year trying to ban discussions of sexual matters with ... 04/19/2024 - 5:16 am | View Link
Judge rejects key expert in paraquat lawsuits, tosses first cases set for trial A key expert witness in lawsuits claiming that Syngenta's herbicide paraquat causes Parkinson's disease cannot testify in court, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, dismissing the first four cases over ... 04/17/2024 - 10:52 am | View Link
Federal judge tosses challenge trying to protect anti-transgender ban by New York county officials A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Nassau County executives and the parents of a local student seeking to protect its ban on trans athletes using county facilities aligned with their ... 04/15/2024 - 1:45 am | View Link
Federal judge rules that migrant children in desert camps need to be in safe and clean facilities Migrant children held in open-air desert camps are in federal custody and required to be expeditiously processed and placed in “facilities that are safe and sanitary,” a federal judge in ... 04/4/2024 - 1:23 pm | View Link
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned.
The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote to the attorneys general of their respective states calling on them to scrutinize their universities’ investments.
This story was produced by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.
In 2018, the Akron, Ohio-based utility FirstEnergy donated $2.5 million to a Republican Governors Association-affiliated dark money group backing GOP nominee Mike DeWine in a competitive race for Ohio governor, according to newly released records.
The records show FirstEnergy’s extensive behind-the-scenes work to get DeWine elected.
“A Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris brawled with several other agents on Monday morning,” the New York Post reports.
“The agent in question, whose identity has not been revealed, was immediately ‘removed from their assignment,’”
Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist Jim Hoft posted a message to his readers saying they are filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection claiming it is as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.
Hoft didn't say exactly who, what, or why this is happening now, but Will Sommer from the Washington Post has some information.
While he didn’t name which lawsuits he was referencing, the site is being sued for claims of defamation and infliction of emotional distress by Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, two Georgia election workers who say they faced threats after the site leveled baseless accusations of ballot fraud against them.
That sounds about right.