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Department of Justice opens investigation into failed carbon-capture plant

Enlarge / Cranes stand at the construction site for Southern Co.'s Kemper County power plant near Meridian, Miss., on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. (credit: Gary Tramontina/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Earlier this week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Southern Company … Continue reading

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It’s Time to Admit That the Military Commissions Have Failed

I’ve written elsewhere about the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s stunning, unanimous decision in In re Al-Nashiri III to throw out three-and-a-half years’ worth of pre-trial rulings by a Guantánamo military commission in the case of the … Continue reading

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Just cause for termination, but City failed to establish discipline was taken within 180 days as required. Employee reinstated

In a case that has received considerable publicity, Arbitrator Don Williams has ordered the reinstatement of a San Antonio police officer the City had dismissed for allegedly leaving a "feces sandwich" in an area where officers were attempting to move … Continue reading

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Successful Bidder, Failed Resolution: Analyzing the Lacuna in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

[Siddharth Kumar is a student at Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies, New Delhi and Aditya Prasad at Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat. They are also Editor and Associate Editor respectively of the CorpLexia Blawg] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy … Continue reading

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Court Holds Bureau of Land Management Failed to Consider Climate Change in Issuing Licenses

This week the Federal District Court for  the District of Columbia found that the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to adequately consider the potential impacts of oil and gas leases on climate change. In Wildearth Guardians v. … Continue reading

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