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Fourteen cases to watch from the Supreme Court’s end-of-summer “long conference”

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But the 5th Circuit wrote that this case “may … attract the [Supreme] Court’s interest” because “[i]t tees up one of the fiercest (and oldest) fights in administrative law: the Humphrey’s Executor ‘exception to the general ‘rule’ that lets a president remove subordinates at will.”

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Separation of powers and mental health evidence in capital sentencing

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South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , involving allegations of racial gerrymandering in a South Carolina congressional district. FDIC , involving separation of powers and administrative law claims. They will be reviewing only two of those petitions for the second time. First up is Calcutt v.

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“Remain in Mexico” and Texas’ anti-abortion law

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After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. In June 2021, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security issued a decision terminating the policy.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson

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The work is not entirely glamorous, however: The court’s docket also includes a steady diet of lower-profile (although still important) administrative-law cases, including appeals of orders issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. After Biden nominated Merrick Garland, then a judge on the D.C. In her short tenure on the D.C.