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DOT Launches New Dashboard to Help Air Travelers Know Their Rights When They Experience Flight Disruptions Caused by Airlines

Department of Transportation: “Throughout 2022, Americans have experienced an unacceptable level of flight delays and cancellations. When these disruptions occur, airlines are required to support passengers based on commitments made in their customer service plans, but too often passengers find those plans are difficult to understand and do not guarantee services – such as meals …

Subjects: E-Government, Transportation

Climate Change Remains Top Global Threat Across 19-Country Survey

“With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, a hot war between Russia and Ukraine ongoing, inflation rates rising globally and heat records being smashed across parts of the world, countries are facing a wide variety of challenges in 2022. Among the many threats facing the globe, climate change stands out as an especially strong concern among …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Health Care

As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis

Pro Publica: “The western United States is, famously, in the grips of its worst megadrought in a millennium. The Colorado River, which supplies water to more than 40 million Americans and supports food production for the rest of the country, is in imminent peril. The levels in the nation’s largest freshwater reservoir, Lake Mead, behind …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law

What you need to know about fall booster shots of coronavirus vaccine

Washington Post: “New coronavirus boosters are just around the corner following authorization Wednesday by federal regulators. The updated shots are designed to provide a stronger shield against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants still causing tens of thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths every day in the United States. The boosters will be part …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives

Washington Post: “In the nearly three weeks since the FBI searched former president Donald Trump’s Florida home to recover classified documents, the National Archives and Records Administration has become the target of a rash of threats and vitriol, according to people familiar with the situation. Civil servants tasked by law with preserving and securing the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education

Young, Kathryne, What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education (2021). Kathryne M. Young, “What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education,” 11 UC Irvine Law Review 811 (2021)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4198255 “Despite enormous social, legal, and technological shifts in the last century, the structure of legal education has remained …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

America’s billionaires are twice as rich as previously estimated

Quartz: “The stratospheric wealth of the top 0.1% in the US is hard to conceptualize but a new paper (pdf) from the National Bureau of Economic Research thinks the total share held by the super wealthy is likely much higher than previously estimated. The authors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman analyzed the work of a …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Stablecoins Survived ‘Crypto Winter,’ But That Doesn’t Make Them Safe

Yale Insights – Cryptocurrencies such as Tether, which is pegged to the dollar, have held on as others crashed. “But according to new research by Yale SOM’s Gary Gorton, these “stablecoins” still pose major risks to the global financial system: “Amid the harsh conditions of this year’s “crypto winter,” one category of blockchain currency has …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Climate change: ‘Staggering’ rate of global tree losses from fires

BBC – “Data from Global Forest Watch suggests that across the globe, the amount of tree cover being burned has nearly doubled in the past 20 years Climate change is a key factor in the increase as it leads to higher temperatures and drier conditions. Of the 9 million hectares of trees consumed by fire …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

DOJ’s new filing includes photo of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago

Case 9:22-cv-81294-AMC Document 41-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/30/2022 Argument: 1. THERE IS NO LEGAL BASIS FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A SPECIAL MASTER TO REVIEW THE CLAIM OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE HERE. A. Cases In Which Courts Have Appointed Special Masters Involve Claims of Attorney-Client (Not Executive) Privilege. B. The Presidential Records Act Forecloses the Relief …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

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