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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. Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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Locked and Loaded: Supreme Court is Ready for a Showdown on the Second Amendment

JonathanTurley

Those politicians publicly thumped their chests about going to the Supreme Court with the law and limiting the Second Amendment precedent; professing absolute confidence, they litigated the law, and, again, the 2nd Circuit supported the dubious statute.

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In habeas case, the liberal justices try to untangle a complex statute

SCOTUSBlog

Hendrix , a case that exemplifies the Gordian knot that is the federal habeas corpus statute. Under Section 2255(h), a prisoner can bring a second or successive petition based only on facts that clearly demonstrate actual innocence or a new rule of constitutional law that the Supreme Court has made retroactive.

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Should the Seventh Amendment Civil Jury Trial Right Apply to the States?

The Volokh Conspiracy

Fully 98% of all Americans in 1868 lived in jurisdictions where they had a fundamental state constitutional law right to jury trial in all civil or common law cases. " population guarantee the right to jury trials in civil cases within their state constitutions, and Louisiana is the only outlier. Indiana , 586 U.S.

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

SCOTUSBlog

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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Divided By Principle: How Justices Barrett And Jackson Are Shaping The Future Of Constitutional Law

Above The Law

” She also pressed counsel to distinguish between different types of harms and resources diverted by organizations in a way that might affect their standing in litigation. Her inquiries aim to clarify the laws structure, urging a closer examination of its effects on different groups.

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Legal Ethics Roundup: Dragon Lawyer Busted, 1000s Of Lawyers Protest, Perkins Defeats EO & More

Above The Law

Among more than a dozen DOJ attorneys who have recently been terminated, the DOJ fired Erez Reuveni , acting deputy chief of the departments Office of Immigration Litigation, on April 15. DeWald is the proprietor of [link] which purports to offer AI-based tools intended to assist other pro se litigants. Find them all here.

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