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28 Apr 2019, 12:48 pm
One goes back here to much older notions of empire that focuses on the organization and management of human activity among autonomous but dependent communities and the allocation of authority, responsibility and rights among them. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 11:00 pm by Giesela Ruehl
  The plaintiffs sued the IFC (including in tort) in a US Federal District Court asserting that pollution from the plant harmed the surrounding air, land, and water. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 6:41 pm
  But perhaps more important are its implications for the construction of a comprehensive human rights based approach to the assertion of public as well as private power in every sphere of human activity--and that those human rights are, in origin necessarily a product of consensus among the community of nations. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Grant Hayden
In fact, the Supreme Court tackled a closely related issue in case that’s now more than four decades old: Los Angeles Department of Water & Power v. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 10:51 am
  Business, corruption, and human rights: towards a new responsibility for corporations to combat corruption. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 9:08 am by John Elwood
Upstate Forever, 18-268, involve the question whether a “discharge of a pollutant” under the Clean Water Act occurs when a pollutant is released from a point source, but not directly into the “navigable waters” that the act protects, and instead is transmitted to those waters through soil or groundwater. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 5:43 am by Charles Sartain
The youthful antagonists were represented by the same group of actors who are behind Juliana v. [read post]
In addition, the court concluded that the phrase “‘substantive legal standard,’ at a minimum, includes a standard that creates, defines, and regulates the rights, duties, and powers of parties” and that the DSH calculation “define[s] the scope of hospitals’ legal rights to payment. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 7:08 am by Anushka Limaye
A selected Federal Government candidate will be assigned to the equivalent of Executive Schedule Level V. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 9:16 am
  That gathering was both formal and the mandatory performance of the rituals of passages of power within the traditions of the Mexican Republic manifested through its political community as incarnated in its institutions and as recognized by foreign powers. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 4:35 pm by Chris Attig
However this turns out, it will represent a shift in the balance of power in Veterans Law. [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 12:32 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
The preamble to the Bill also acknowledged that s. 33 was only being invoked given the pressing public nature of the dispute, as well as the legal ambiguities that were currently at stake due to the appeal underway, Whereas Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights an (sic) Freedoms, exists for the purpose of permitting publicly accountable legislators to finally determine essential economic and social policy; and Whereas the present state of the law is unclear as to the meaning of… [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 11:54 am by Rashmi Raman
This has important repercussions in customary international law since it means that the effects of the Court’s jurisdiction may extend to non-states parties especially in the context of jus cogens violations of fundamental human rights states. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 6:57 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel (Gaming; Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act)Northern Natural Gas Company v. 80 Acres of Land in Thurston County (Utilities; Rights-of-Way – Condemnation)Wilhite v. [read post]