Tag: Appeals Courts

Federal appeals court judges went after both the Obama administration and its opponents equally on Tuesday, in a whirlwind series of oral arguments meant to suss out the centerpiece of the president's climate change agenda. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Energy and Environment

Judges go after both sides on first day of landmark climate hearing

John Siciliano · September 27, 2016 7:19 pm

Oral arguments over the Obama administration's signature environmental regulation began in the D.C. Court of Appeals with a line out the door. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Oral arguments begin in legal challenge to signature Obama environmental rule

Kyle Feldscher · September 27, 2016 2:20 pm

The power plan, which the EPA made law just over one year ago in August, directs states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by one-third by 2030 in an effort to fight global warming. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s climate legacy on trial

John Siciliano · September 25, 2016 4:01 am

The nation's top appeals court imposed a temporary injunction on Friday, after meeting with the tribe and the Army Corps of Engineers. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Energy and Environment

D.C. court halts Dakota Access oil pipeline

John Siciliano · September 19, 2016 2:40 pm

The U.N. is expecting about 20 countries to send their ratification documents for the Paris climate deal in the coming days. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

U.N. rushes to ratify Paris climate deal ahead of court date

John Siciliano · September 16, 2016 6:13 pm

Gary Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, submitted paperwork last week asking a judge to replace Libertarian placeholder Charlie Earl — who dropped out of the race — with them. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Ohio Libertarians make ballot access request to Supreme Court

Anna Giaritelli · August 23, 2016 11:37 pm

Vanderbilt University paid the United Daughters of the Confederacy $1.2 million on Monday to revoke the group's name — deemed a "symbol of exclusion" — from a dorm at the Nashville, Tenn., institution. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

University forks out $1M to strip dorm of Confederate name

Anna Giaritelli · August 15, 2016 11:11 pm

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said Friday the state will seek a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on an appellate court ruling that struck down the state's voter ID law last week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

North Carolina will ask Supreme Court to uphold voter ID law

Anna Giaritelli · August 5, 2016 9:50 pm

The Sierra Club had said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had erred in its environmental review when it approved the two projects in Texas and Louisiana. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Energy and Environment

Greens lose court battle on gas exports

John Siciliano · June 28, 2016 8:08 pm

Vernon Madison is scheduled to be executed for the 1985 murder of Mobile police officer Julius Schulte. (Alabama Department of Corrections, via AP, File)

Appeals court halts execution of Alabama cop killer

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 5:22 pm

Without comment, the Supreme Court put Rod Blagojevich's appeal on the "rejected" list, a decision that means the 14-year sentence he received for his conviction on corruption charges will be upheld. (AP Photo)

Supreme Court won’t hear Blagojevich’s conviction appeal

Kelly Cohen · March 28, 2016 4:27 pm

Last week, an appellate judge issued a scathing ruling in the IRS targeting scandal -- the one that broke into the news cycle all the way back in 2013. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

What is the IRS hiding?

Washington Examiner · March 28, 2016 11:36 am