The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals filed Judge Schroeder’s opinion in the case of Alaska Oil and Gas Association versus Jewell on Monday, which reversed 2013 lower court decision that the designation of critical polar bear habitat was too extensive and not specific enough. Within a year of designation of the Polar Bear as an endangered species […]
A U.S. appeals court has reversed a ruling that said the National Security Agency’s program to collect phone records from millions of Americans in an effort to locate terrorist plots was illegal. In 2013, a lower court ruled the program was probably unconstitutional because it likely violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches. The appellate […]
