7 results for 'judge:"Ginsburg"'.
J. Ginsburg upholds defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Contrary to defendant's argument, the trial court was not required to suppress evidence, as the officers' protective pat-down search was justified. Affirmed.
Court: DC Circuit, Judge: Ginsburg, Filed On: April 16, 2024, Case #: 22-3024 , Categories: Evidence, Firearms, Search
J. Ginsburg upholds defendant's seven-year sentence for his guilty plea to firearms charges related to his purchase of an AK-47. The district court properly applied an upward departure based, in part, on evidence defendant had posted numerous times about carrying out violent attacks, and spoke of killing police officers and slaughtering non-Muslims. Affirmed.
Court: DC Circuit, Judge: Ginsburg, Filed On: March 5, 2024, Case #: 21-3057, Categories: Firearms, Sentencing
J. Ginsburg upholds the district court's dismissal of an environmental group's challenge to two rules that delayed the effective date of a proposed rule that would have reduced the amount of land designated as critical habitat for an endangered species of spotted owl. The group's claims became moot when the two rules expired. Affirmed.
Court: DC Circuit, Judge: Ginsburg, Filed On: March 5, 2024, Case #: 22-5216 , Categories: Administrative Law, Environment
[Consolidated.] J. Ginsburg reverses the district court's holding for the National Marine Fisheries Service on its right whale takings rule that would cost lobstermen $50 to $90 million over the next six years. Contrary to the agency's findings, the Endangered Species Act does not give it the power to "indulge in worst-case scenarios and pick 'pessimistic' values in order to give 'the benefit of the doubt' to the species." Reversed.
Court: DC Circuit, Judge: Ginsburg, Filed On: June 16, 2023, Case #: 22-5238 , Categories: Administrative Law, Environment
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J. Ginsburg with grant a petition for review to two oil and gas associations on their challenge to a rule that requires the installation of remote-controlled or automatic shut-off valves on certain gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration failed to address the practicability or costs of the requirement as applied to gathering pipelines.
Court: DC Circuit, Judge: Ginsburg, Filed On: May 16, 2023, Case #: 22-1148 , Categories: Energy, Environment
[Consolidated.] J. Ginsburg finds that federal sovereign immunity applies to the United States’ actions after it seized oil cargo that it claims belongs to Iran from a ship that was outside of U.S. waters. Affirmed.
Court: DC Circuit, Judge: Ginsburg, Filed On: May 9, 2023, Case #: 22-5080, Categories: Energy, Property, Immunity