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Justices Consider Making It Easier to Challenge Regulatory Power of Federal Agencies

Constitutional Law Reporter

Two of the cases involve whether litigants must wait for administrative proceedings to conclude before challenging the authority of federal agencies in federal court. Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana v. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in five cases last week.

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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.

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Biden’s “Come on, Man” Defense Will Not Fly on Religious Freedom

JonathanTurley

Previously in the term, Justice Amy Coney Barrett similarly declined to grant a request for emergency relief on behalf of eight students at Indiana University against a vaccine mandate. Trustees of Indiana University : Indiana University allows for medical or religious exemptions.

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Halakha Challenge: Three Kentucky Women Argue Abortion Law “Imposed Sectarian Theology on Jews.”

JonathanTurley

” Two similar lawsuits are pending in Florida and Indiana on the grounds that it violates the religious freedom for Jewish people. The portrayal of the law as a “theocratic” measure will be hard to maintain in such litigation. Here is the complaint: kentucky-abortion-lawsuit-against-ag.

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The Biden Administration Goes To War With The “Non-Vacs”: Is Coercion the Answer?

JonathanTurley

There is a high likelihood of a new round of litigation as pressure builds for new mandates and even lockdowns. As expected, those rules have been upheld, including a recent favorable ruling for Indiana University. For the most part, the motivation behind government and private mandates are hard to litigate.

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

JonathanTurley

While the Administration could certainly prevail on appeal, the confidence remains an exercise of hope over experience in such litigation. In the OSHA case , the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled based on its own “serious constitutional concerns.”. Trustees of Indiana Univ. , See Klaassen v.

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Trump’s Liability Or Opportunity? Two Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump Over Capitol Riot

JonathanTurley

Indiana , the court rejected the prosecution of a protester declaring an intention to take over the streets, holding that “at worst, (the words) amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time.” On the existing evidence, they will likely fail on appeal, even if they survive the trial level litigation.