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Supreme Court Rules Bribery Statute Doesn’t Criminalize Gratuities for Past Acts

Constitutional Law Reporter

The case before the Court involves James Snyder, who is the former mayor of Portage, Indiana. In 2013, while Snyder was mayor, Portage awarded two contracts to a local truck company, Great Lakes Peterbilt, and ultimately purchased five trash trucks from the company for about $1.1 In 2014, Peterbilt cut a $13,000 check to Snyder.

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Supreme Court Hears Challenge to EPA’s Good Neighbor Rule

Constitutional Law Reporter

Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review. LePage Bakeries Park St.,

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Is The “Workaround” Working? Fourth Court Enjoins Biden Vaccine Mandate

JonathanTurley

It will also have a major impact on the economy at large, as it limits contractors’ and members of the workforce’s ability to perform work on federal contracts. Trustees of Indiana Univ. , Massachusetts …there can’t be a constitutional problem with vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 [aka COVID-19]”). See Klaassen v.

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