by ridgelinecenter | Aug 3, 2026
This brief, filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of members of Congress as amici curiae, supports Boulder and Boulder County’s state tort law claims against Exxon and Suncor for damages from deceptive production, promotion, marketing, and sale of fossil fuels....
by ridgelinecenter | May 26, 2026
The case in State of Rhode Island v. Trump, No. 26-1070 (1st Cir.), would require the court to determine the proper relationship between Congress and the Executive Branch: namely, whether the Executive Branch can unilaterally eliminate congressionally created,...
by ridgelinecenter | Oct 22, 2025
The Supreme Court has enabled a dramatic expansion of executive power during the first nine months of the Trump Administration. Much of this has occurred with minimal or no explanation on the emergency docket, allowing the Administration to proceed without any...
by ridgelinecenter | Jun 1, 2025
This article in Lewis & Clark’s Environmental Law Review, 55 Envtl. L. 449 (2025), demonstrates how lower courts have applied the Supreme Court’s 1944 decision in Skidmore v. Swift & Co. in the immediate seven months after the Court’s 2024 decision in...
by ridgelinecenter | Aug 1, 2024
For four decades, federal courts relied on the Chevron doctrine to guide their approach in determining whether to defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court concluded that the forty-year-old...
