Legal Enviros sue feds over W. Va insolvent mine reclamation program
Sebastien Malo
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Steam rises from a pile of coal at a mine in Bishop, West Virginia, U.S., May 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Environmental groups sued the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSMRE) in Huntington, West Virginia federal court for failing to determine whether the state should overhaul its surface mines reclamation program in light of the insolvency of various in-state coal mines.
In a complaint filed on Monday, the plaintiffs including the Sierra Club say that OSMRE is violating the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) because it has failed to decide whether West Virginia should revise rules tied to the cleanup of abandoned mines through reclamation, even as state regulators have admitted that the state could be more than $100 million short to reclaim 100 private non-producing coal mines it may have to help clean up.
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Late on Tuesday night, federal judge Reed O’Connor, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, issued a Temporary Restraining Order blocking distribution by the Small Business Administration of $28.6 billion dollars in grants to businesses in the restaurant industry.
On May 13, 2021, Greer’s Ranch Cafe and owner Phillip Greer filed a class-action lawsuit against the Small Business Administration claiming that the aid program was being administered in an unconstitutional manner because the program was designed by the Biden Administration to give priority to restaurant businesses owned by racial minorities and women.
Planned Parenthood, ACLU File Lawsuit to Block Lubbock, Texas Ordinance Outlawing Abortion
19 May 2021
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas have filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Lubbock after its citizens voted May 1 to become a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”
The abortion industry giant and the civil rights organization claim the ordinance Lubbock’s citizens approved to make abortion illegal within the city’s limits is unconstitutional.
“The Constitution of the United States guarantees the right to have an abortion,” the complaint states and continues:
But as of June 1, 2021, the City of Lubbock will prohibit and prevent the exercise of that right through the passage of its Ordinance Outlawing Abortion Within the City of Lubbock, Declaring Lubbock a Sanctuary City for the Unborn …
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Before Judges Newman, Dyk, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Summary: Repeated email, phone, and letter communications threatening patent infringement litigation and negotiating a potential licensing arrangement with a company in forum state held sufficient for personal jurisdiction in forum state.
PerDiemCo is the owner of 11 patents at issue in this lawsuit, all of which relate to electronic logging devices and/or geofencing. PerDiemCo accused Trimble of infringing these 11 patents. PerDiemCo has only a single employee, owner Robert Babayi, who operates the business out of Washington, D.C. PerDiemCo also rents office space in Marshall, Texas. However, Babayi has never visited the Texas location. PerDiemCo sent various letters and other communications to Trimble, a company headquartered in California, regarding claims of patent infringement and negotiating a potential licensing arrangement.