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Dow settlement signals impact of Scalia death on class actions
2016-02-26 22:18:55| Food - Topix.net
Dow Chemical Co's agreement to pay $835 million to settle a price-fixing dispute provides evidence that Justice Antonin Scalia's death is a blow to businesses that have had success recently in challenging class action cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. ), on Friday settled the decade-long dispute rather than risk its fate being decided by a shorthanded, eight-justice court missing, in Scalia, a reliable vote in support of companies in class action cases.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members...
2016-02-26 02:31:26| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A letter from the Supreme Court's doctor says Scalia suffered from coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes, among other ailments that probably contributed to the justice's sudden death. When Justice Antonin Scalia died 11 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.
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Supreme Court to hear major grid case without Scalia
2016-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: A consequential energy case is on the Supreme Court's docket this week as the justices hear their first arguments since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. On Wednesday, the court will hear the second high-profile case of this term where justices must weigh the divisions of state versus federal authority over electricity markets. At issue: Does a Maryland program providing incentives for new power generation improperly veer onto federal regulators' turf? Lower courts said it does. The Richmond,...
Scalia and Chevron: It's complicated
2016-02-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: In 1989, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- then a recent arrival on the bench -- delivered an emphatic endorsement of a court practice of deferring to agencies' expertise. Speaking to Duke University School of Law that January, Scalia was 2 years into what would become three decades on the court. The topic: judicial deference to agency actions. Deeply interested in administrative law, he'd taught it as a law professor before joining the court. "Administrative law is not for sissies," he...
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