JURIST

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

If the cabinet considers a federal law “unconstitutional or harmful to Albertans,” it is empowered by the legislature to render inoperative portions or the entirety of federal statutes in the province, and to replace these disregarded federal laws with substitute legislation. We’re going to see how this plays out.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Laws governing elections and the right to participate in the political process receive varying degrees of scrutiny when challenged in court. A federal district court dismissed their lawsuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

government deported him to Mexico. The government reinstated his prior removal order. While the Supreme Court has never set a bright-line test on when a detainee is entitled to a bond hearing, the U.S. The Supreme Court will now review those decisions. After one such entry, the U.S. In Zadvydas v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Indeed, Roberts reflected, when the whole point of the governments inquiry in deciding whether to grant or deny marketing authorization is whether the products will be sold to the public, the retailers might be the most likely people to challenge the denial of authorization. The government gets sued in a lot of places, she noted.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 23, 2024

As enacted in 1984, the statute at issue in the case, 18 U.S.C. Justice Kavanaugh cited that six reasons that, taken together, led the Court to conclude that §666 is a bribery statute and not a gratuities statute—”text, statutory history, statutory structure, statutory punishments, federalism, and fair notice.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 6, 2023

Supreme Court narrowed the scope of a federal aggravated identity theft statute. The Government maintained that §1028A(a)(1) was automatically satisfied because Dubin’s fraudulent Medicaid billing included the patient’s Medicaid reimbursement number—a “means of identification.” In Durbin v.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Kirschenbaum — In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule to significantly decrease the rate the government will reimburse 340B hospitals in 2018 for outpatient prescription drugs from average sales price (“ASP”) plus 6% to ASP minus 22.5%. The statute sets this “average price” as ASP plus 6%.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

CACI was appealing a lower court decision that favored the Iraqi men in 2019. law named the Alien Tort Statute that allows non-U.S. CACI had claimed it was protected under derivative sovereign immunity, a legal doctrine that shields government contractors from liability under certain circumstances.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 9, 2022

In that case, the Medicaid statute obligates the state to “seek reimbursement” from the person who committed the tort, and it requires (in 42 U.S.C. Prior Supreme Court decisions have made clear that the state is entitled only to the portion of the settlement attributable to medical expenses.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Electrification is a critical component of building decarbonization, and local governments are taking a leading role in this policy space. While a handful of local prohibitions fall within the Ninth Circuit decision’s scope, many more do not. Options that remain available to local governments are addressed in the next section.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Some background about the general compromise that governs that problem sets the stage for this dispute. That decision distinguishes between types of gambling that a state prohibits outright and types of gambling that a state tolerates subject to regulation. The success of that facility led to proliferation of the business model.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Natural Resources Defense Council , determines when a federal court must defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. First, under step one, if the court determines Congress’ intent is clear and unambiguous in the statute, the court will interpret the statute according to its terms, without deferring to the agency.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As we reported, on November 5, 2020, the District Court held that the relator could not plausibly plead the requisite scienter because Forest’s interpretation of the ambiguous statute was objectively reasonable and CMS did not warn Forest away from that interpretation through authoritative guidance. Burr , 551 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Bruen is a happy ending to a cautionary tale about what happens when constitutional rights are left to government discretion. The Bill of Rights — including the Second Amendment — was designed to ensure that certain rights were placed beyond the reach of the federal government. Again, according to the government, they were not.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Sineneng-Smith , the justices reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Government officials – tribal, federal, and state – have established initiatives to address the disturbingly disproportionate rates of violent crimes perpetrated against indigenous women. How is it possible that the sentence rendered by the Court of Indian Offenses was dramatically less severe than the sentence rendered in federal court?

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland gave renewed teeth to the venue statute governing litigation. Although the notice letter is a critical aspect of the Hatch-Waxman process, the Federal Circuit found that the letter was not an “act of infringement” as required by the venue statute.

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Hoban Law Group

APRIL 13, 2021

The filing of “protective” claims for refund as a hedge against the draconian provisions that govern the federal taxation of cannabis, and particularly for marijuana, is one of those things properly placed at the top of the no-brainer list.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Carole Johnson (consolidated cases), the Court found that the conditions set by Novartis and United Therapeutics on covered entities did not violate the 340B statute, although more restrictive conditions could violate the law. District Court and won, prompting a government appeal to the D.C.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2023

The statute imposes a maximum $10,000 penalty for nonwillful violations of the law. As explained by the Supreme Court, FBAR reports are designed to help the government trace funds that may be used for illicit purposes and identify unreported income that may be subject to taxation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Second, he argued that he no longer qualifies as a career offender, because one of his state convictions has been vacated and others no longer count as “crimes of violence” after a 2015 Supreme Court decision. In the abstract, the federal government largely agrees with Concepcion’s fallback position.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Last month the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision to dismiss a False Claims Act (FCA) ( 21 U.S.C In addition, Grifols’s eligibility for government contracts is conditioned on FDA approval of Gamunex and FDA approval is conditioned on compliance with GMPs.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

1681n and 1681oauthorize suits for damages against “any person” who violates the FCRA, and §1681a expressly defines “person” to include “any” government agency. Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed. “[W]e government. government. It held that the USDA could be sued because 15 U.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 8, 2024

The first question in the Court’s analysis was whether the claim that the SEC brought is a “suit at common law,” i.e., if the case is legal in nature. That the claim rested on a federal statute and required the SEC to establish facts that do not match any cause of action known to the common law in 1791 was not dispositive.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 30, 2024

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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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2013

Let’s explore this decision and its ramifications in a little more depth. As we have written before , an Internet service that allows users to post content to that service is exempt from any liability for that content under two statutes.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 10, 2023

Supreme Court has concluded its oral arguments for the 2022-2023 Term. The Court’s final week included four cases, with issues ranging from bankruptcy to RICO to government takings. Below is a brief summary of the issues before the Court: Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 1, 2023

Supreme Court held that the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is a claim-processing rule rather than a bright-line rule that constrains a court’s jurisdiction. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote on behalf of the Court. The Government claims that the easement includes public access, which petitioners dispute.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. Raiders Retreat Realty surprised anybody familiar with last fall’s oral argument.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With the holidays upon us and the end of the year fast approaching, the FCC took care of one piece of business required by statute as it released a Public Notice announcing the start of the 2022 Quadrennial Review of the FCC’s ownership rules.

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Diane Drain

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It is possible that these interpretations of the new Act will change with new legislation or court decisions, so never assume what you read one day will be interpreted the same way the next day. According to a blog by David Warfield and David Farrell, Thompson Coburn, LLP, there are nine amendments to the Bankruptcy Code in the CAA.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Although no petitions have been granted, the Supreme Court has requested amicus briefs from the Federal Government in four particular cases. Because of that heavy threshold, a CVSG is typically seen as an important signal that the court is likely to grant certiorari. Qualcomm Incorporated , No. 35 U.S.C. §

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

922(g) , the federal statute barring people with prior felony convictions from possessing firearms, the government must prove that the defendant knew he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm. ” Neither Gregory Greer nor Michael Andrew Gary carried that burden, according to the court.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Arizona is one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American criminal procedure. Generally, if the police obtain a suspect’s statement in violation of Miranda , the government cannot use that statement against the defendant in court. The trial court denied Tekoh’s motion and admitted his statement.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Under the “American Rule,” the prevailing party in litigation in the United States ordinarily must pay its own attorney’s fees, absent some statute that calls for a different outcome. Rule 39 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure governs the process of awarding those costs for appellate litigation in the federal courts.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 20, 2025

Supreme Court held that alleging commingling of funds alone cannot satisfy the commercial nexus requirement of the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA). The Courts decision was unanimous. Supreme Courts Decision The Supreme Court disagreed.

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