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Thanks for the informative post. My co-blogger Jonathan Zasloff at Legal Planet has noted that Sotomayor is on the appellate panel that has failed, a full three years after oral argument before the Second Circuit, to issue any decision on a very important climate change-related issue: whether states' nuisance case against coal-fired power plants was properly dismissed by a federal district court as a non-justiciable "political question." He also points out that Sotomayor's oral argument questioning on this case was thoughtful and incisive:
http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-environmental-argument-against-sotomayor-sort-of/
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