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11/15/2023

Fifth National Climate Assessment Released

This week the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which is a Congressionally mandated inter-agency study of the impacts of climate change, was released.

07/20/2023

https://blog.szlawfirm.net/second-circuit-finds-restrictions-on-the-form-or-manner-of-speech-in-a-limited-public-forum-does-not-violate-first-amendment/

Recently, The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the District Court determination that the City of Kingston had the right to prohibit the public from displaying signs at a City Council ...

03/29/2023

https://www.climatechangeattorney.com/the-sixth-assessment-report-of-the-ipcc-paints-a-sobering-picture-of-coming-climate-change/

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) issued its Sixth Assessment Report (“AR6”) on March 19, 2023 summarizing the findings of various studies of the impacts of climate change.

12/15/2022

https://blog.szlawfirm.net/court-finds-property-owner-impacted-by-local-law-lacked-standing-to-challenge-the-law/

In a decision that reiterated the need for there to be other than economic impacts to a property owner to serve as a basis for challenging the environmental review of a local law or ordinance, ...

07/12/2022

https://www.climatechangeattorney.com/u-s-supreme-court-limits-authority-of-epa-to-regulate-emissions/

In June, at the end of its 2021-2022 Term, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling with far reaching implications for the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") to ...

05/12/2022

https://blog.szlawfirm.net/supreme-court-rules-refusal-to-permit-religious-flag-at-city-hall-violates-free-speech/

On May 2. 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the refusal of the City of Boston to permit the flying of a Christian flag, on a flag pole located at Boston’s City Hall Plaza.

12/01/2021

The Second Department reversed the Supreme Court's determination upholding a special permit and site plan approval where the proposal failed to fully comply with the zoning ordinance.

The Appellate Division reversed a determination of the Supreme Court that had upheld the granting of a special permit and site plan, where the proposal failed to fully comply with the zoning ordinance.

08/09/2021

Following up on previous assessment reports, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an updated assessment report on August 9, 2021. The Report carries dire warnings of the impacts of man-made activities unless immediate steps are taken.

Following up on previous assessment reports, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an updated assessment report on August 9, 2021.

12/21/2020

https://blog.szlawfirm.net/challenge-to-seqra-determination-and-site-plan-dismissed-due-to-failure-to-name-the-property-owner/

The Appellate Division restated the requirement that all interested parties must be named in an action challenging a site plan approval and that a property owner and prospective developer are not ...

10/02/2020

Kathy Zalantis and Steve Silverberg authored an article discussing the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decisions in City of Portland v. United States that upheld most of the orders issued by the FCC, in 2018, placing limits on regulations and fees fixed by local governments, with respect to so called "small cell" wireless installations. The Article appears in the October, 2020 edition of the New York Real Estate Law Reporter.
https://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/2020/10/01/ninth-circuit-upholds-most-fcc-restrictions-on-local-government-review-of-wireless-installations/?kw=Ninth%20Circuit%20Upholds%20Most%20FCC%20Restrictions%20on%20Local%20Government%20Review%20of%20Wireless%20Installations&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=nyrealestatelawreporter&utm_content=20201001&utm_term=ljn

09/09/2020

https://www.climatechangeattorney.com/report-on-the-state-of-the-climate-green-house-gases-and-sea-level-rise/

The American Meteorological Society issued its annual report recently on the state of the climate for 2019.

12/17/2019

Eighth Circuit rules that denial of lighting for a religious school's baseball field does not violation RLUIPA

Last week the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals denied an action pursuant to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA") challenging a local law that resulted in a religious ...