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ENERGY AND CLIMATE DEBATEDespite the House being in recess for the Veterans Day holiday, bicameral negotiations on an omnibus appropriations package continue this week. Congress must come to an agreement on the 12 spending bills by December 11, and though appropriators are trying to get the package ready as soon as possible, sorting out specific allocations and negotiating riders, as well as taking into account the Thanksgiving holiday recess, means that finalization of the $80 billion omnibus is not truly expected until the week of December 7. The Senate has a number of other issues on its agenda this week, including long-term highway funding (H.R. 22), for which it is naming conferees to negotiate differences in the first multi-year highway authorization law since 2012, defense authorization, nominations, and several hearings. Among other energy provisions from House energy legislation (H.R. 8), the House adopted an amendment from Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) to the Highway Bill … [Read more...] about Energy & Environment Update for November 10, 2015

Note: This month’s CLE, “Family Law Goes Global,” is Wednesday, July 21.Christopher Savoie got the kind of telephone call that terrifies a parent on Aug. 12, 2008. The school where his two young children attended classes wanted him to know that they had not shown up that day.But Savoie’s first thought was not that Isaac and Rebecca had been victimized by some stranger. Instead, he rushed over to his ex-wife’s home not far from his in the Nashville, Tenn., suburbs. “The first thing that came to mind was murder-suicide,” he says. “It was a horrible thing to imagine. I’d had no contact with her in two days, and that wasn’t normal.”Savoie found his ex-wife’s house empty and the blinds drawn. That’s when another explanation for the children’s disappearance began to worry him.For months, Savoie had been telling people—including the judges overseeing the couple’s divorce—that he feared his … [Read more...] about When Global Families Fail

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: akanksha jain November 13, 2018 8:23 pm Change Font Size With the authorities facing great difficulties in identification of unclaimed bodies, the Delhi High Court has asked the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to explain its reasons for shooting down the idea of matching the fingerprints of unidentified bodies with the biometric database. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice VK Rao issued notice to the UIDAI and also the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on a petition moved by advocate Amit Sahni seeking directions to the Centre and all the states to mandatorily scan the biometrics of the unidentified bodies and match it with pre-existed biometrics/Aadhaar details so that the body can be handed over to the decesed’s family. During the hearing, the UIDAI said it was not technically possible to match the biometrics of the unidentified body with the existing database. The bench then … [Read more...] about Delhi HC Asks UIDAI To Explain Why Aadhaar Data Can’t Be Used To Identify Unclaimed Bodies

Almost one year after the horrific gangrape of a young paramedic student who was not only raped but brutally assaulted by six men in a moving private bus which shook the country, the Delhi High Court which has been hearing appeals of the four accused and arguments on the death sentence on a daily basis in the sensational case, will pronounce its verdict, most likely in January.According to M.L. Sharma, defense counsel of two of the accused Mukesh and Pawan Gupta, they have been arguing and expecting the verdict to be pronounced in the second week of January. The lawyer said he will try to complete his arguments next week following which the holidays for the court will begin, and then he will have to give fact findings, Supreme Court’s judgments in related cases and conclude it. However, the Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan, referring to defense counsel’s alleged tactics said, “The high court decided to hear the case on a day to day basis. Prosecution has … [Read more...] about One year since Nirbhaya case: Verdict on appeal likely in January

Energy and Climate DebateEnergy issues received some significant national attention last week as both houses of Congress began to lay out their plans for the 113th Congress, and President Obama delivered his second inaugural address after he was sworn in for his second term.President Obama highlighted climate change in his inaugural address January 21, signaling a renewed commitment to action on the issue, but it is too early to tell whether and how that will translate into a broad agenda or a new push for legislation this year. Legislation, however, is not the only path forward for addressing climate issues in the coming months. The Environmental Protection Agency has already released a rulemaking agenda that includes regulation to address emissions from new power plants, and the president has wide-ranging administrative authority that allows him to use executive orders and new regulations to benefit the clean energy sector. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) included a … [Read more...] about Energy & Environment Law Update – January 30, 2013