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Baking such censorship into law were "dictatorial maneuverings designed to undermine a vibrant Hong Kong film culture,” said Joseph Lee, director of the Global Asia Institute at Pace University in New York, who has published two papers on Hong Kong cinema.

The timing puts the administration in a “precarious position” at the talks, Achinthi Vithanage, associate director of environmental law programs at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, wrote in an email.

Pace University Professor Randolph McLaughlin was a featured guest on the Newsy Morning Rush Show to discuss the Charleston church massacre and its recent $88M settlement with the Department of Justice.

But Katrina Fischer Kuh, a professor at Pace Law School, said the potential for a broad ruling also can't be ignored. She pointed to the argument raised by the petitioners regarding the so-called major questions doctrine, which says large-scale regulatory initiatives that have broad impacts — in this case shifting states' power sources from coal to renewable — can't be grounded in vague, minor and obscure provisions of law.

New York state has a long tradition of leadership on the environment," said Nicholas A. Robinson, a legal scholar who has developed environmental law since 1969 and has served as a general counsel of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. He also teaches environmental law at Pace Law School.