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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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Under that doctrine, if Congress has not directly addressed the question at the center of a dispute, a court was required to uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it was reasonable. Under the APA,” Roberts concluded, “it thus remains the responsibility of the court to decide whether the law means what the agency says.”

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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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1983 — which allows private suits for state and local deprivations of rights secured by federal law—to enforce federal statutes enacted under Congress’ spending clause power. VCR is a government nursing facility in Indiana owned by petitioner Health and Hospital Corp., Background. a municipal entity.

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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. Under Chevron , courts must defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute that the agency is charged with administering, even if they are inclined to rule another way. Natural Resources Defense Council , 467 U.S.

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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 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 to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.