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  • Plagiarism Accusations Threaten To Upend Democrats' Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies

    04/19/2025 12:35:37 PM PDT · by Twotone · 5 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 16, 2025 | Thomas Catenacci
    A federal judge in Puerto Rico issued a scathing order last week accusing Democratic prosecutors on the island of plagiarizing nearly their entire 241-page complaint that blamed oil companies for causing global warming. In the order Wednesday, district court judge Aida Delgado-Colon outlined how David Efron, the lead attorney representing Puerto Rico's capital city San Juan, appears to have plagiarized a similar but separate complaint that 16 Puerto Rican municipalities filed a year earlier. A side-by-side comparison of the two complaints shows large blocks of text are copied word-for-word. Delgado-Colon wrote that the situation should serve as a cautionary tale...
  • U.S. District Court rules local government may not restrict Free Speech during declared emergencies

    04/04/2023 4:48:53 AM PDT · by cll · 3 replies
    This is a pre-enforcement action by journalists Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto and Rafelli González-Cotto to enjoin, under the First Amendment, Article 5.14(a) of the Law of the Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety, Law No. 20 of 2017, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 25, §§ 3501, et seq. (“Law 20”), which criminalizes some types of speech after the Governor has decreed a state of emergency or disaster in the Commonwealth. 1 For the reasons explained below, the challenged provision cannot be enforced. As drafted, it does not pass muster under the First Amendment. BACKGROUND Law 20 creates the Puerto Rico Department of Public...
  • Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey slam Trump for nominating 1st Circuit appeals court judge after election

    11/17/2020 6:16:17 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 34 replies
    Bostonherald.com ^ | 11/17/20 | LISA KASHINSKY
    U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey are calling on President Trump to withdraw his nomination for a new federal appeals court judge in Massachusetts, saying it was made during a “lame-duck session” after the presidential race was called in favor of his rival. “Confirming the nominee during this lame-duck session would require Republicans to yet again violate longstanding Senate norms and rules,” the senators said in a statement Tuesday. “The White House should not be using its final days to try to rush through the nomination of a judge who will have a lifetime appointment to a court with...
  • Donald Trump nominates Judge Raúl Arias to the Boston First Circuit Court of Appeals

    11/17/2020 5:26:36 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 7 replies
    elnuevodia.com ^ | 11/14/20 | Jose Delgado
    Arias Marxuach, described as a conservative who was originally recommended by Washington Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González, has already passed the Senate Republican majority. In May 2019, the then private practice attorney was confirmed 95-3 by the U.S. Senate for the seat he currently holds on the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Arias Marxuach was originally appointed to the San Juan Federal Court in 2018, but the appointment did not complete the legislative process and Trump nominated him again on January 22, 2019.