Public Policy
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The Trump administration on Thursday won a bid to nix a suit in D.C. federal court brought by three state attorneys general over a 2017 executive order requiring federal agencies to repeal at least two existing regulations for every new regulation that agency issues… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A federal court in Seattle on Thursday shot down a bid by three civil rights nonprofits aiming to force U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release immigrants at a detention center in Washington state near the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Thursday a solicitation for 30 million barrels of oil, the first step in a plan to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to boost an energy industry walloped by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A coalition of southern Oregon and Northern California farmers has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to undo a Federal Circuit ruling that determined tribes have priority over farmers for water rights, arguing that the appeals court should have deferred to state law in the matter… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Oklahoma federal court cited the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus in an order that postponed a case brought by Native American tribes challenging the expiration date of their gambling compacts… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 