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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v.

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Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies

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But in the years since then, it became one of the most important rulings on federal administrative law, cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times. Going forward, judges will be charged with interpreting the law faithfully, impartially, and independently, without deference to the government.

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SCOTUS Poised to Decide Fate of Chevron Doctrine

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The Court’s Chevron decision established a bedrock principle of administrative law. Texas : The Fifth Amendment government taking case involves when property owners can sue for compensation. The two most closely watched involve whether the Court should overrule its landmark decision in Chevron v. 837 (1984).

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In family’s lawsuit against public nursing home, court revisits private rights of action and the spending clause

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VCR is a government nursing facility in Indiana owned by petitioner Health and Hospital Corp., A state administrative law judge found one late-2016 transfer to have violated FNHRA and ordered Talevski returned to VCR; the family chose to move him to a different facility. a municipal entity.

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Supreme Court to consider multi-pronged constitutional attack on SEC

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The government’s view in this case is that the Constitution affords Congress a broad authority to create new obligations by statute, and that because those statutory obligations were unknown to the common law, they are public rights that Congress can assign to an administrative tribunal without a jury.

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Supreme Court expands time frame to sue federal agencies

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joined a lawsuit challenging a 2011 regulation issued by the Federal Reserve Board governing the fees that merchants must pay whenever their customers use a debit card. Barrett explained that the statute of limitations “begins to run only when the plaintiff has a complete and present cause of action.”

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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In an article published in 2014, law professor Thomas Merrill suggested that the Chevron decision was not regarded as a particularly consequential one when it was issued. But in the decades since then, it became one of the most significant rulings on federal administrative law, cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times.