JURIST

JUNE 18, 2021

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named the Honorable Mahmud Jamal to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on Thursday. Jamal will replace the retiring Justice Rosalie Abella, and becomes the first person of color to sit on Canada’s highest court. The selection process follows the guidelines of the Supreme Court Act of 1985.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Administrative Court of Paris on Wednesday held that the French state is “responsible” for failing to take sufficient measures to halt climate change and for failing to meet its greenhouse gas emission targets.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2024

The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that courts must exercise independent judgment in assessing an agency’s statutory authority. The Supreme Court did not decide on the facts of Loper. The Loper court disagreed, finding that “ Chevron was a judicial invention that required judges to disregard their statutory duties.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Thursday instructed the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to dismiss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lawsuit over a challenge to her congressional candidacy. Greene asked the district court to bar the challenge.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday held that the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) in-house adjudication violated the petitioner hedge fund manager’s Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. Jarkesy and Patriot28 then appealed the decision to federal court.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

DCWP filed a complaint in the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, the city’s central, independent administrative law court. The DCWP , formed by the NYC Consumer Protection Law of 1969, seeks to “protect and enhance the daily economic lives of New Yorkers.”

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Above The Law

MARCH 19, 2025

The JAA would extend the same basic workplace protections that apply to most other workers, to judiciary employees who support the daily functioning of our courts; and it would ensure that judges who interpret federal anti-discrimination laws, are themselves subject to them.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The last scheduled conference of the Supreme Court’s term — which this term is being held Thursday — is usually one that yields many grants. citizen for a benefit under state law.

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Law 360

JULY 5, 2024

Supreme Court's dismantling of a 40-year-old judicial deference doctrine, coupled with rulings stripping federal agencies of certain enforcement powers and exposing them to additional litigation, has established the October 2023 term as likely the most consequential in administrative law history.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit accepted all three arguments and invalidated three aspects of the SEC’s operations. The case stems from an administrative proceeding that the SEC brought against hedge fund founder and investment adviser George Jarkesy in 2013. But in this case a bold (I did not say “rogue”) panel of the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 2, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments Monday in United States v. a case that intersects patent law, administrative law and the separation of powers. The justices seemed skeptical of the argument that the administrative patent judges were not principal officers. Arthrex, Inc.,

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JURIST

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Danish Court of Impeachment, or Rigsretten, Monday sentenced former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg to 60 days in prison. As immigration minister, Støjberg was responsible for administrating and enforcing Danish immigration law during the 2015 European migration crisis.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Share In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.)

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JURIST

MARCH 2, 2022

The Administrative Court in Cologne Tuesday ruled that key provisions of the amended Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), aimed at curbing online hate speech, violate European Union law on civil liberties. The ruling delivered a partial victory to Google and Meta that had challenged the new law in February last year.

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Law 360

MARCH 20, 2024

After hours of oral argument in a closely watched administrative law case, it appeared that some U.S. Supreme Court justices could be open to limiting the opportunities for lower courts to defer to federal agencies' legal interpretations in disputes over rulemaking — and legal experts said there are a number of ways they could do it.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the 2018 case, the plaintiffs were found not to have standing because their interest in not suffering damage from climate change was not considered an individual interest to be protected (see Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe for more discussion). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in the consolidated cases Wilkinson v. Administrative law generally was also featured during the arguments. Justice Neil Gorsuch questioned the expanse of federal court review. Dai and Wilkinson v. Alcaraz-Enriquez on Tuesday. ” Wilkinson v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Monday that Starbucks violated federal labor laws by firing two workers who were planning to organize a union at a Philadelphia store in 2020. Starbucks has the ability to appeal the decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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Patently O

JULY 24, 2024

Latty Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law In a flurry of recent decisions, the Supreme Court has continued its skepticism of administrative agencies. Notably, the 2016 patent law case of Cuozzo v. Guest post by Arti K. Rai , Elvin R. no standing requirement).

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Patently O

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike district courts, the ITC cannot award monetary damages but instead provides exclusion orders that block infringing imports at the border and cease-and-desist orders that prevent domestic sales of previously imported infringing products.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 21, 2021

The NFT will have to pass the Howey test, first described by the US Supreme Court in 1946. That is, of course, the SEC’s view (and not the Courts), but it no doubt sends alarms to those who think the Commission will turn a blind eye. the “others” who will bear securities law liability). These must be future efforts.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 19, 2021

Paralegals can avoid the unauthorized practice of law (UPL) by becoming familiar with their state’s rules. Rules against UPL specify that paralegals (or anyone who is not licensed to practice law) cannot provide attorney-client services to people, among other prohibitions. Paralegals cannot appear in court on behalf of a client.

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2022

Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency has shed light on how the court's decision could significantly limit the federal government's efforts to address climate change, and reshape administrative law and the separation of powers, say Matthew Sinkman and Andrew Alessandro at Gibbons.

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Law 360

JUNE 28, 2024

By knocking down a powerful precedent that has towered over administrative law for 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's right wing Friday gave a crowning achievement to anti-agency attorneys.

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JURIST

JUNE 29, 2021

A Brazilian Supreme Court ( Supremo Tribunal Federal ) justice, on Thursday, issued an order revoking the passport of former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles. The post Brazil Supreme Court revokes passport of ex-Environmental Minister amid illegal timber sale investigations appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

Fitzgerald , unanimously agreeing on Monday that a statute that imposes higher fees on bankruptcy filers in 48 states than in the other two states is so far from “uniform” that it transgresses the Constitution’s requirement that Congress provide “uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.”.

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2022

Supreme Court's landmark doctrine requiring judicial deference to federal regulators survived a major health care case at the high court Wednesday, but the controversial bedrock of administrative law barely escaped the conservative justices' frying pan and is heading right back into their fire, experts say.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the consolidated cases of Davis v. The circuit courts in both Davis (Eighth Circuit) and Carr (Tenth Circuit) chose to maintain the general rule that an issue must be raised by the claimant before the agency in order to seek judicial review on that issue. Saul and Carr v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the federal government and in favor of people seeking Social Security benefits on a procedural issue about administrative “exhaustion” requirements. The court ruled 9-0 that claimants need not raise all of their specific issues before the agency.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments in Axon Enterprise, Inc. Axon filed proceedings in federal district court claiming that agency proceedings violate its due process rights. ” Stewart argued that the FTC Act review provisions authorizes courts of appeals to review final commission orders.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2024

Share Union organizing efforts at Starbucks probably are the most protracted labor dispute of the decade, and on Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear argument in a closely watched case arising from the company’s firing of seven employees at a Memphis branch. The NLRB responded by filing an administrative complaint.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 1, 2022

The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Civil law cases.

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday in United States v. Arthrex that the America Invents Act gives powers to Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) that are inconsistent with the appointments clause of the US Constitution. ” Justice Clarence Thomas was the sole member of the court to dissent on both issues. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the federal government in a dispute over when federal courts can treat asylum seekers’ testimony as credible. Alcaraz-Enriquez , the court rejected the approach of the U.S. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for the court. Dai and Garland v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday firmly rejected the government’s request that the court impose an “issue-exhaustion” requirement on Social Security claimants. Saul ), all parties agreed that those claimants must take their claims first to the Social Security Administration – and these claimants did that.

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Patently O

JULY 10, 2022

The Federal Circuit has agreed that Kevin Correll’s 5-year suspension from patent law practice should move forward. That complaint was then decided against Correll an Administrative Law Judge and issued a 5-year suspension from practice. Correll then moved to district court and again lost when the E.D.Va.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

Chevron isn't gone yet, but it doesn't look good for the case that's the foundation of administrative law. The post Remembering <em>Chevron</em> Deference appeared first on Above the Law.

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