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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 This April, the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) is expected to release a draft of its new rule titled Greenhouse Gas Assessment for Projects (GAP Rule). The GAP Rule could have major impacts on local governments and industries, such as port authorities, oil and gas refining, pulp and paper plants, manufacturing, and chemical producers. Intended to standardize the process for assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by major “industrial a...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: This April, the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) is expected to release a draft of its new rule titled Greenhouse Gas Assessment for Projects (GAP Rule). The GAP Rule could have major impacts on local governments and industries, such as port authorities, oil and gas refining, pulp and paper plants, manufacturing, and chemical producers. Intended to standardize the process for assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by...

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Acting within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’s unique opportunity for permanent reform, the Administrative Board of Courts in New York, through the state’s Chief Administrative Judge Larry Marks and his Order of December 29, 2020, enacted new Uniform Rules in the Supreme and County courts that will permanently change discovery, motion practice, pre-trial procedures and other aspects of civil litigation in the state. Effective February 1, 2021, some...

Ben Birchall - WPA Pool / Getty ImagesPreviously unpublished sections of a 2018 letter that Meghan Markle wrote to her father warned him that “day after day” of “reading the tabloids” had warped his mind and that what started as fascination grew into “paranoia (and then rage) of how you were being portrayed.”Meghan won a dramatic victory Thursday in her privacy and copyright infringement case against Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Daily Mai...

The Duchess of Sussex has claimed a victory over "moral exploitation" after winning her High Court privacy case against the Mail on Sunday. As a judge on Thursday ruled that the publication of extracts of a private letter she sent to her father was "manifestly excessive” and unlawful, she declared: “We have all won.” The Duchess hailed a “comprehensive" victory on both privacy and copyright, saying: “We all lose when misinformation sells mor...

Court Rules E911 Didn’t Have Authority To Enter Into Agreement Court case between Mahaska County Board of Supervisors and Mahaska County E911 Service Board and Mahaska County Emergency Management. Mahaska County District Court Judge Crystal Cronk made a ruling in regard to the ongoing battle between the Mahaska County Board of Supervisors and the E911 Service Board and Mahaska County Emergency Management. At the center of the argument is the E911 Service Board’s ability to enter into 28E ag...

WHAT MATTERS The industry practice is to set the Payment Rating to a code of 0 if the account was current on the closing date or to a code of 1-6 reflecting that the account was past due when it was paid off. This forms the basis of recent claims under FCRA brought by plaintiffs who claim that this standard method of reporting is inaccurate. Metro 2 is the standard system used by furnishers of credit information for reporting consumers’ account information to credit reporting agencies. This s...

The nature and background of the relationship of the parties, The balance of harms between the parties, The likelihood of success on the merits, Public policy, Administrative burdens in the supervision and enforcement of the injunction. The union stated all five of these factors weigh in favor of injunction. The city stated the union is not entitled to the remedy of injunction relief stating they failed to show the former union members “cannot be made whole through an award of monetary damage...

The nature and background of the relationship of the parties, The balance of harms between the parties, The likelihood of success on the merits, Public policy, Administrative burdens in the supervision and enforcement of the injunction. The union stated all five of these factors weigh in favor of injunction. The city stated the union is not entitled to the remedy of injunction relief stating they failed to show the former union members “cannot be made whole through an award of monetary damage...

Thu, Jan 7th 2021 3:36pm — Mike Masnick Richard Liebowitz is infamous as the notoriously inept copyright troll lawyer. Hes so bad at his job that hes been sanctioned repeatedly, and recently was suspended from practicing law in the Southern District of NY (his home court). The details of him lying under oath over and over again are simply staggering. However, you have to give Richard Liebowitz credit for one thing: hes so bad at copyright trolling, that hes set some useful precedents. We wrot...