U.S. Happenings · LEVEL A
Brian Cole Jr.'s lawyers move to suppress the statements FBI agents took from him on December 4. Coercive tactics broke down an autistic man in the interrogation room.
When a story accumulates enough new ticker data to change what it says, it doesn’t get a fresh slot — it gets a bulletendum. The old line is retired in amber, the replacement runs in green, and both stay bound to one tag so a reader can see what changed rather than re-reading a headline they already know.
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Stack & Pour in Nashville scored 61, Mixed/Watch. The pancakes were stacked so high I couldn't see the truth. I asked the waitress where it went. She said, "Somewhere between the third and fourth pancake. We lost it last Tuesday."
Suncor Energy Inc. v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of Boulder County
(1) Whether federal law precludes state-law claims for injuries allegedly caused by interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions; and (2) whether the Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear the case (question added by the Court).
Boulder County and the City of Boulder sued fossil-fuel producers in Colorado state court (2018) for state-law torts — nuisance, trespass, unjust enrichment, conspiracy — over climate harms. State courts rejected the defendants' preemption defenses. The Court granted cert and directed briefing on its own jurisdiction.
Could decide whether the dozens of state and municipal climate-damages suits against energy companies are preempted by federal law — potentially dispositive for the entire wave of climate litigation.
Clean Air Act displaces federal-common-law nuisance claims for GHG emissions.
Source-state law governs cross-border pollution; supplies the preemption framework.
Displacement of federal climate-damages claims (9th Cir. background).
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