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  2. Climate change litigation and the California Environmental ...

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    Litigation related to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become increasingly common in federal and state courts. [1] Following adoption of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), additional pressure was placed on California public agencies to evaluate potential ...

  3. Settlement (litigation) - Wikipedia

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    The settlement of the lawsuit defines legal requirements of the parties and is often put in force by an order of the court after a joint stipulation by the parties. In other situations (as where the claims have been satisfied by the payment of a certain sum of money), the plaintiff and defendant can simply file a notice that the case has been ...

  4. Collusive lawsuit - Wikipedia

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    The law condones this practice because there are several benefits to settling a lawsuit as opposed to settling a claim outside of a lawsuit. First, if one of the parties to the claim is a minor, they usually cannot settle the claim without the appointment of a guardian ad litem to review and accept the settlement.

  5. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District - Wikipedia

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    The settlement must be approved by Judge DuBois, [needs update] who could also make his injunction barring the district from secretly tracking students permanent. [1] The settlement also included $175,000 that was to be placed in a trust for Robbins and $10,000 for Hasan. The attorneys for Robbins and Hasan received $425,000. [143]

  6. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931) A California law that bans red flags is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment's protection of symbolic speech as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. Near v.

  7. Moore v. Regents of the University of California - Wikipedia

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    John Moore first visited UCLA Medical Center on October 5, 1976, after he was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia.Physician and cancer researcher David Golde took samples of Moore's blood, bone marrow, and other bodily fluids to confirm the diagnosis and recommended a splenectomy because of the potentially fatal amount of swelling in Moore's spleen. [3]

  8. Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.

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    Sample clearance fees prohibited the use of more than one or two samples for most recordings, with some mechanical rights holders demanding up to 100% of royalties. As each sample had to be cleared to avoid legal action, records such as those produced by the Bomb Squad for Public Enemy , which use dozens of samples, became prohibitively ...

  9. Settlement conference - Wikipedia

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    Such a conference may be initiated through either party, usually by the conveyance of a settlement offer; or it may be ordered by the court as a precedent (preliminary step) to holding a trial. Each party, the plaintiff and the defendant , is usually represented at the settlement conference by their own counsel or attorney .