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SCOTUS Clarifies Statute of Limitations for APA Claims

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court held that a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) does not accrue for purposes of 28 U.S.C. 2401(a) ’s default six-year statute of limitations until the plaintiff is injured by final agency action. The District Court dismissed the suit as time-barred under 28 U.

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

Constitutional Law Reporter

By contrast, if a federal official accepts a prohibited gratuity, federal gratuities law sets a 2-year maximum prison sentence pursuant to §201(c). As enacted in 1984, the statute at issue in the case, 18 U.S.C. Justice Kavanaugh wrote: The bribery statute for federal officials, §201(b), uses the term “corruptly.”

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SCOTUS Narrows Reach of Identity Fraud Statute

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court narrowed the scope of a federal aggravated identity theft statute. Because the crux of Durbin’s overbilling was inflating the value of services actually provided, and the patient’s means of identification was an ancillary part of the Medicaid billing process, the statute was not violated. In Durbin v.

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The art of justice: Re-examining landmark Supreme Court cases through expressionist paintings

SCOTUSBlog

Share Tired of reading jargon-filled law review articles with hundreds of footnotes? The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited by Professors M.C. Mirow and Howard Wasserman. The numbers on either side of the chair are also significant.

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Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution

SCOTUSBlog

In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments. 1983 , the iconic civil rights statute permitting plaintiffs (including prisoners) to sue state officers for infringing constitutional rights.

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Divided Supreme Court Strikes Down Chevron in Landmark Decision

Constitutional Law Reporter

By a vote of 6-3, the Court held that Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether a federal agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.

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Supreme Court Rules Federal Agencies Can Be Sued Under Fair Credit Reporting Act

Constitutional Law Reporter

Given that the United States, as a sovereign, is generally immune from suits seeking money damages unless Congress chooses to waive that immunity, the Court’s “clear statement” rule allows a suit against the government only when “the language of the statute” is “unmistakably clear” in allowing it.