In a dispute with Congress over the proper role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in retirement investing, President Joe Biden chose to promote progressive environmentalism. On Monday, Biden vetoed a congressional resolution to nullify a recent Labor Department rule issued that explicitly allows retirement managers to weigh ESG factors in investment decisions. Congress attempted […]
“The climate time-bomb is ticking,” declared United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at the press conference on Monday launching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 Synthesis Report. He called it “a survival guide for humanity.” The report is supposed to be a comprehensive summary of the scientific, economic, and policy findings of six earlier […]
On the three-year anniversary of America’s COVID-19 oh-shit moment—when Tom Hanks announced he had contracted the potentially deadly virus and the NBA suspended the rest of its season—I looked down at the little testing rectangle and said “Oh, shoot.” It was more observationally interesting than existentially nerve-rattling to experience my second official case of COVID […]
From today’s Ninth Circuit decision in Yim v. City of Seattle, written by Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw, joined in part by Judges Ronald M. Gould and Mark J. Bennett: In 2017, the City of Seattle enacted the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance. The Ordinance prohibits landlords from inquiring about the criminal history of current or potential […]
A Union destroyed my grandpas company and his retirement, and they famously led to the American car manufacturers going under—but under “hands off” free market theory would they correct themselves or somehow end up making the economy better? Or are they in a similar category as monopolies and plagiarism—something that the government has to step […]
From Order on Amicus Briefs, just issued today; it will be entered in all of Judge Rudofsky’s civil cases: When I was practicing law, I often wondered why amicus briefs were generally not filed at the district court level. It occurred to me back then that such briefs could have considerably more impact at the […]
Idaho is set to begin executing inmates by firing squad in cases where the state is unable to obtain lethal injection drugs. The move will make Idaho the fifth state to reauthorize executions by firing squad. As fewer and fewer pharmacies are willing to sell execution drugs to states, increasing numbers have opted to pivot—at […]