Remove Drafting Remove Laws Remove Nebraska Remove Statute
article thumbnail

Forum Selection Clauses, Afghanistan, and the United States

Conflict of Laws

It offers insights into best drafting practices for choice-of-court clauses. The first has to do with contract drafting. Finally, it is important to note that the State of Michigan has adopted a statute that clearly spells out when its courts should and should not give effect to choice-of-court clauses. Afghanistan Ltd, No.

article thumbnail

New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

Laws 98
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny

Constitutional Law Reporter

Nebraska , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. The HEROES Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’” provisions of the student aid laws, “but does not allow the Secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on behalf of the Court. In Biden v.

Court 52
article thumbnail

Biden vaccine policies face Supreme Court test amid nationwide COVID-19 surge

SCOTUSBlog

The earlier cases in which the court took that unusual step involved Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law and a religious-liberty claim from a man on death row.). The states argue that the provision on which the government relies is a “housekeeping statute” that does not give HHS the broad power that the government claims.

Court 143
article thumbnail

Justice Breyer: A formidable defender of reproductive rights

SCOTUSBlog

In that case, Breyer led the majority in striking down a Nebraska criminal statute that made it unlawful to perform dilation-and-evacuation and similar abortion procedures even though the risks of mortality and morbidity to the pregnant person are significantly lower than induced-labor procedures. Casey and Roe v.

article thumbnail

When the president takes lawmaking matters into his own hands, the court must step in

SCOTUSBlog

Nebraska and Department of Education v. The Biden administration located a previously untapped source of authority in the HEROES Act of 2003, a law passed in the early days of the Iraq War to temporarily freeze student loans held by servicemembers and their families during times of war or national emergency. But that has not happened.