JURIST

JUNE 8, 2023

United States that in order to constitute aggravated identity theft, the use of a person’s identity must be at the “crux” of what makes the conduct criminal, reversing a lower court decision. “The statute fails to provide even rudimentary notice of what it does and does not criminalize,” he wrote.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2025

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. But this has became life as usual for the states under this Court’s voting cases.” Plaintiffs claimed that the map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

McGills brief argued that a jurisdictional problem (based on the courts decision in Badgerow v. It took Roberts 10 separate questions to elicit that admission! The most important thing I got out of the argument is that the justices seem highly motivated to decide the question presented.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 19, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, what level of First Amendment scrutiny applies to a state law governing slogans that appear alongside candidates’ names on the ballot. A federal district court dismissed their lawsuit. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit upheld that dismissal.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. In response to COVID-19, the CDC ordered a nationwide moratorium on residential evictions last fall.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

The court looked at other issues in its comprehensive decision, including an argument that the copyright holder waited too long to sue (rejected, as the suit was brought within the 3-year statute of limitations) and arguments that any harm was “de minimis” and did not justify a lawsuit.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

United States the Court held that in order to convict someone under the statute, the government must prove both that a defendant knew he possessed a firearm and that he knew he belonged to a category of persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Decisions in both cases should come this summer. Two years ago in Rehaif v.

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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

APRIL 22, 2025

Supreme Court held that a case voluntarily dismissed without prejudice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a) counts as a final proceeding under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b). The Courts decision was unanimous. Supreme Courts Decision The Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 9-0.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 14, 2025

According to the appeals court, holding otherwise would give businesses a blueprint for using corporate formalities to insulate their infringement from financial consequences. Supreme Courts Decision The Supreme Court disagreed. The Court went on to find that background principles of corporate law support its holding.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 6, 2023

Supreme Court narrowed the scope of a federal aggravated identity theft statute. Because the crux of Durbin’s overbilling was inflating the value of services actually provided, and the patient’s means of identification was an ancillary part of the Medicaid billing process, the statute was not violated. In Durbin v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The statute, though, contains several exceptions to the discharge, generally describing debts that Congress regarded as so important or reflecting such objectionable behavior that it is inappropriate for the debtor to discharge them. For Barrett, the case begins and ends with the language of the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Supreme Court previously held that the post-removal statute contains an implicit time limit. Davis , a 2001 decision, the court read that provision to prohibit detention beyond six months for noncitizens ordered removed when their removal is not “reasonably foreseeable.” In Zadvydas v. Rodriguez and Johnson v.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Circuit, but today, the Supreme Court reversed again and upheld the District Court’s opinion in American Hospital Assn v. Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Kavanaugh explained that the Medicare statute provides CMS a choice between two options on how to set reimbursement rates for drugs provided in the hospital outpatient setting.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2025

In 1982, Thompson tells the justices, the Supreme Court declined to interpret the same law to cover bad checks, rejecting the governments argument that writing a bad check is a false statement because it falsely implies that there is enough money in the account to cover the amount of the check.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

On dilution (under the federal Trademark Dilution Revision Act), the court held that VIP was protected by an exception for “noncommercial” uses. In its brief in the Supreme Court, Jack Daniel’s is scorching in its criticism of the 9th Circuit’s reading of federal trademark statutes.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Bartenwerfer points first to the court’s articulation of a clear-statement rule, under which the exceptions to discharge are narrowly limited to those that are “plainly expressed” in the statute. Turning from the literal text to the broader statutory context, Bartenwerfer emphasizes the next subparagraph of the statute.

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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. The Supreme Court in 2013 narrowed the Alien Tort Statute to cover conduct that occurred in the U.S. The men filed their lawsuit in 2008 under the 1789 U.S.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The Supreme Court today finds a 2018 statute did not violate the California Constitution in eliminating the possibility of transfer to adult criminal court of almost all prosecutions for crimes committed by 14- and 15-year-olds. Coverage of the decision: Bob Egelko in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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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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Law 360

JULY 5, 2024

Supreme Court's decision in Corner Post v. Federal Reserve Board effectively gives new entities their own personal statute of limitations to challenge rules and regulations, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence may portend the court's view that those entities do not need to be directly regulated, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

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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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Mondaq

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Employers can find themselves defending claims from the same aggrieved worker in multiple legal proceedings as a result of a new Divisional Court decision.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

The Supreme Court Decision in Citizens United v. Because the station cannot censor the candidate ad (except in the exceptionally rare situation where the airing of the ad might violate a Federal felony statute), the broadcaster has no liability for the contents of the ad.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The statute would create a rebuttable presumption of consolidation. The new statute would list factors that a district court should consider when determining whether or not to grant a stay, all the changes would tend to promote stays of the litigation. Expanding the Scope of Inter Partes Review. ” More Powerful Stays. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

The “challenge” in understanding the statute, Gorsuch pointed out, is that “there is no clear referent in § 11(a) telling us what ‘such security’ means.” For one thing, the statute imposes liability for false statements or misleading omissions in ‘ the registration statement.’” – rather than simply “a” or “any” registration statement.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

That decision distinguishes between types of gambling that a state prohibits outright and types of gambling that a state tolerates subject to regulation. In 1983, responding to a lower-court decision holding that the transfer of those trust responsibilities violated the Texas Constitution, Texas terminated the trust relationship.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Aereo finally lost a court decision. Oral arguments in the Supreme Court are to be held in April, with a decision in the case expected before the Court adjourns for its summer recess in July. Does this Utah decision serve as a preview of the upcoming Supreme Court decision?

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Mondaq

MAY 9, 2022

Supreme Court decision issued last week barring the. Healthcare facilities and other entities receiving federal financial assistance can breathe a little easier after a U.S.

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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. Celgene Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Suri told the justices that this was not a question of convenience, but instead about Congresss choice in the statute to delineate where cases can be brought. A decision in the case is expected by summer. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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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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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 26, 2024

Maggie Gardner ( Cornell Law School ) will speak, in English , about the topic Beyond the Presumption Against Extraterritoriality For the last decade, the debate over prescriptive jurisdiction in the United States has been monopolized by the Supreme Court’s rejuvenated presumption against extraterritoriality. Under this framework, U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

The case turns on a 1988 amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act, which added the current Section 16(a) to that statute. Kavanaugh reasoned that when “the question on appeal is whether the case belongs in arbitration or instead in the district court, the entire case is essentially ‘involved in the appeal.’”

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Patently O

APRIL 22, 2021

However, the courts refused to allow the challenge based upon the doctrine of assignor estoppel. The statute provides no guidance, but the doctrine seems to have its origin in the property law doctrine of estoppel-by-deed that normally accompanies a warranty deed (although sometimes a quitclaim deed). Formica Insulation Co. ,

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