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Supreme Court to hear “nondelegation” challenge to telecom access program

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The statute creating the Universal Service Fund outlines the general policy that Congress wanted the agency to follow for example, ensuring that internet and telephone services are affordable, providing reasonably comparable services to rural areas, and making sure that schools and libraries have access to those services.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. Federal Election Commission , and he represented an Alaska school board in Morse v. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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Palin and Public Figures: Is it Time to Reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan and the Actual Malice Standard?

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Most recently, after numerous efforts to dismiss the case, The New York Times found itself in court defending an editorial that bizarrely appeared to blame former Alaska Gov. Moreover, publications are protected in most states by retraction statutes limiting or blocking damages for corrected stories. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.

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