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Environmental

Oct. 5, 2010

Can the Roberts Court Stay Out of Politics?

A climate change case that will go before the Supreme Court this session will determine the domains of Congress and the courts over greenhouse gas regulation, by Sue Meyer of Nossaman.

By Sue Meyer

This session, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to accept for review its first climate change case since its groundbreaking decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007). Five power companies have petitioned for certiorari from the judgment in Conn. v. Am. Elec. Power Co., 582 F.3d 309 (2d Cir. 2009), vacating and remanding the district court's dismissal of plaintiffs' federal common law suit see...

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