JD Supra

DC Circuit Questions Validity of Longstanding Council for Environmental Quality Regulations Implementing NEPA

In a departure from past jurisprudence, a recent DC Circuit decision questioned whether the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) had the legal authority to issue key regulations under ...
E&E

DC Circuit questions feasibility of Biden power plant rule

The court is not expected to reach a decision until President-elect Donald Trump takes office — with plans to roll back the regulation. A federal appeals court had questions Friday about the Biden ...
E&E

DC Circuit questions LNG by rail’s ‘unprecedented’ hazards

A federal appeals court on Friday appeared highly skeptical that the Trump administration had adequately weighed the safety and environmental risks of a rule authorizing rail transport of liquefied ...
JD Supra

DC Circuit Affirms Decision That Copyright Statute Requires Some Amount of Human Authorship, Leaves More Difficult Questions for Another Day

Does copyright law require that a human create a work? Yesterday the D.C. Circuit in Thaler v. Perlmutter held that it does and that a machine (such as a computer operating a generative AI program) ...
The National Law Review

DC Circuit Questions Validity of Longstanding Council for Environmental Quality Regulations Implementing NEPA

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