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Federal Judge Enjoins Tennessee Law Limiting Drag Shows

JonathanTurley

The vagueness problems could be reduced by limiting the scope to adult entertainment settings. Section 2 of the Statute makes it “an offense for a person to perform adult cabaret entertainment,” either “(A) On public property; or (B) in a location where the adult cabaret entertainment could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.”

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SCOTUS Poised to Decide Fate of Chevron Doctrine

Constitutional Law Reporter

304 (1987), the Supreme Court recognized that the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause was “self-executing” and that “[s]tatutory recognition was not necessary” for claims for just compensation because they “are grounded in the Constitution itself[.]” County of Los Angeles , 482 U.S.

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SCOTUS Rules Quiet Title Act’s Time Bar Is Claim-Processing Rule

Constitutional Law Reporter

In reaching its decision, the Court noted the important distinction between “the classes of cases a court may entertain (subject-matter jurisdiction)” and “nonjurisdictional claim-processing rules, which seek to promote the orderly progress of litigation by requiring that the parties take certain procedural steps at certain specified times.”

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Justices Refuse to Require Issue Exhaustion of Social Security Claimant

Constitutional Law Reporter

“First, this Court has often observed that agency adjudications are generally ill suited to address structural constitutional challenges, which usually fall outside the adjudicators’ areas of technical expertise,” Justice Sotomayor wrote. “As

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Supreme Court Greenlights Pre-enforcement Challenges to FTC and SEC Proceedings

Constitutional Law Reporter

Each suit premised jurisdiction on district courts’ ordinary federal-question authority to resolve “civil actions arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.” According to the Court, “[t]he ordinary statutory review scheme does not preclude a district court from entertaining these extraordinary claims.”

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Hochul’s Circular Firing Squad: Federal Court Rules Against New York’s Gun Law

JonathanTurley

It is hard not to see that listing as an obvious effort to do precisely what Hochul said: to recreate the ban by including virtually every location as a “sensitive area.”.

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A Critique On The Territorial Jurisdiction Of Courts In India

LexForti

One of the most vital concerns that a legal practitioner is essentially seen to deal with, that is with respect to any particular dispute or one that has arisen out of a legal relationship between the respective parties subsequently brings into consideration the forum which has/will/have the territorial jurisdiction to entertain such a dispute.