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Group appeals ruling on EPA cap-and-trade rule for HFCs

September 16, 2025
A Georgia refrigerants company is asking for another shot to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s implementation of a 2020 law mandating an 85% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon consumption by 2036, requesting an en banc rehearing from the D.C. Circuit after a panel unanimously rejected its challenge last month…
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Mackinac Center asks 6th Circuit to reverse loan forgiveness ruling

September 10, 2025
A federal appeals court could consider student loan forgiveness and the constitutional separation of powers if two nonprofit organizations get their way. A brief filed Aug. 27 by the New Civil Liberties Alliance asks the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overrule a district court that dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Mackinac Center for…
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Supreme Court to expedite review of Trump's power to impose tariffs

September 10, 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would review a challenge to President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs, expediting the case to be heard in two months. The high court justices issued the one-page order that set the schedule for the case, with the arguments session to take place during the first week of November. Trump asked the justices to intervene last…
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Fishing monitor litigation continues with new appeal

September 4, 2025
The legal fight over on-board fishing monitors, which sparked the demise of a decades-old legal theory last year, is continuing on in federal appeals court. The New Civil Liberties Alliance is appealing a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, which found this summer — for a second time — that commercial fishing boat…
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Split Fed. Circ. Backs Limits On Presidential Tariff Powers

August 30, 2025
The Federal Circuit held that President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs were improperly imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which it said makes no mention of “tariff,” “duties” or “tax.” …
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Professor fired after refusing COVID vaccine sues Minnesota Gov. Walz

August 8, 2025
Nearly five years since the COVID-19 virus took the world by storm, those claiming injury from government vaccine mandates continue to come forward with new cases for litigation. Such is the position of Professor Russell Stewart (pictured), who lost his job after his opposition to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s vaccine mandates. Now, the professor is suing the…
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