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Revenge of the rescheduled cases: Congressional proxy voting, the ministerial exception, and more

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The actuarial board did not adopt a binding definition until 2015 — 13 years after CMS promulgated the regulation. The company faced a series of demands from the FTC it viewed as unreasonable. rescheduled before the Nov. 10 and Jan. 7 conferences; relisted after the Jan. 14 conference).

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

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Orts, Reflexive Environmental Law, 89 Northwestern University Law Review 1227 (1995); Dennis D. Hirsch, “Green Business and the Importance of Reflexive Law: What Michael Porter Didn’t Say,” 62 Administrative Law Rev iew 1063 (2010); John S. Nebraska, 600 U.S. Times , Oct. 12, 2022. [49]

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule Must Respond to Emerging Legal Risks

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Nebraska , the Court relied on the MQD to determine that the Biden Administration could not forgive $430 billion of federal student loan debt under a 2003 Act that had not been the basis for such a sweeping program before. Two recent cases of note have affirmed the use of the MQD. In the Supreme Court’s recent decision Biden v.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. Nebraska , invalidating the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program. Env’t Prot. On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court applied the major questions doctrine in Biden v.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Carhart , for example, the court – in an opinion by Breyer – struck down a Nebraska law that banned so-called “partial birth” abortions, while in Santa Fe Independent School District v. During the 1999-2000 term, the court was (much as it is now) mired in the culture wars, but often with different results. In Stenberg v.