Court Decisions Government Stare Decisis 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2021
Morgan Ratner argued for the federal government, which filed its own friend-of-the-court brief but supported neither party. The justices pressed Ratner on where the government’s version of the doctrine came from. As Justice Neil Gorsuch put it, “No court’s ever applied the version of estoppel that you’re proposing now.”
Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 30, 2024
However, if the court determines that “the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue” at hand, the court must defer to the agency’s interpretation if it “is based on a permissible construction of the statute.”
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. The government has filed a confession of error, agreeing the offense does not qualify.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
Its argument, inter alia , was that by virtue of Article 12 and 13 of their agreement, the Nigerian court had no jurisdiction in this case. GOVERNING LAW: The Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA without regard to the principle of conflicts of any jurisdiction.”.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Successive Nigerian governments across all tiers have made the attraction of foreign investments a cardinal part of their economic policies and have accordingly made deliberate efforts and committed abundant resources to attract foreign investments into Nigeria. [1]
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. Legislative authority. A brief from the Susan B.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
I think people are aware of high-profile issues… what the Supreme Court does on abortion, gun rights, affirmative action, but my guess is that people don’t realize that there has been no Supreme Court decision since 1986, 35 years ago, about eyewitness identification. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?
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