Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

By February 1 , TV stations in Kansas , Nebraska , and Oklahoma and radio stations in New York and New Jersey must file their license renewal applications through the FCC’s Licensing and Management System (LMS) on Form 2100, Schedule 303-S.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

to be “paid back”) out of any recovery, and then to take some hefty percentage—often 60% or more of whatever is remaining, particularly in litigations deemed high-risk (like patent litigation), though there are no rules governing how much funders can ask for. (It 24] At the Federal level, the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Various disclosure obligations apply if the programming does in fact come from a foreign government entity. Always review these dates with your legal and technical advisors, and note other dates not listed here that may be relevant to your operations. .

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2019

With the reopening of the Federal government (at least for the moment), regulatory deadlines should begin to flow in a more normal course. Be sure to stay in touch with your legal counsel to make sure that you do not miss any dates that may be particularly relevant to your station.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Representing Tyler, lawyer Christina Martin argued that the county had violated the Constitution’s takings clause, which bars the government from taking private property for public use without adequately compensating the property owners. Katyal insisted that the home-forfeiture scheme was not a “moneymaker for the government.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2021

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. We have discussed decisions extending Tarasoff.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

11 attacks that allows the federal government to make changes to student-loan programs to respond to national emergencies. Six states, led by Nebraska, went to federal court in Missouri to challenge the program. District Judge Henry Autrey threw the case out, holding that the states do not have a legal right to sue, known as standing.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nebraska and Department of Education v. million members — teachers and paraprofessionals, health care workers, higher education staff and faculty, and government workers. Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Biden v. A preview of the cases is here. The AFT represents more than 1.7

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Nebraska and Department of Education v. A brief submitted on behalf of legal scholars, including me, focused on whether the secretary of education had authority to embark on debt cancellation. Further, any government action may produce benefits and costs for third parties. A preview of the cases is here. Jonathan D.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 2, 2023

Nebraska , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. According to the Court, the state of Missouri had standing to sue because the plan would cost MOHELA, a nonprofit government corporation created by Missouri to participate in the student loan market, an estimated $44 million a year in fees. In Biden v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

5] For the reasons discussed below, more firms – and their legal and other advisers– should follow them. 9] The proposed legislation in California is both legally solid and helpful for making climate progress. Academic readers of this blog should too! 2] See, e.g., Jacqueline M. Vallette and Kathryne M.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

The landmark 5-4 ruling also concluded that the Kansas law governing the practice did not constitute double jeopardy since it merely authorized “civil” rather than “criminal” commitments. Taken together with Kansas v. For all these reasons, civil commitment must be abolished.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Both were legally and factually wrong. It is not just citizens but jurists and legal experts too who remain divided. Carhart struck down a partial-birth abortion law in Nebraska. Biden may magnify those problems by pledging a “whole-of-government response” to the court’s order. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 28, 2024

Nebraska , a divided court ruled that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority when it announced the debt relief program, which relied on the HEROES Act, a law passed in the wake of the Sept. A federal appeals court in Denver allowed the government to implement most of the plan, while a different appeals court in St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Republican-led “anti-ESG” (environmental, social, governance) movement over the last two years has largely been a legislative effort, comprised primarily of state-level bills that attempt to halt the consideration of climate risk and other commonplace factors in investment decisions connected with government funds, contracts, and pensions.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The $400 billion program will remain on hold in the meantime due to lower-court rulings that have blocked the government from implementing it. 11 attacks that allows the federal government to make changes to student-loan programs to respond to national emergencies. Biden announced the program in August.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Louisiana filed suit in the US District Court for its Western District, leading a cohort comprising Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. The pause on the program has proven controversial.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But the court’s decision could also have a much broader legal impact, affecting when and how states can go to court to challenge federal policies and how courts should interpret other laws giving powers to federal agencies. Nebraska and was filed by six states with Republican attorneys general.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

7 on whether the mandates can remain in place while challenges to their legality continue in the lower courts. 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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Following the West Virginia decision, analysis of the MQD has proliferated as legal scholars grapple with the doctrine’s lack of definition. Nebraska , invalidating the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program. On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court applied the major questions doctrine in Biden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But the court’s decision could also have a legal impact well beyond this case, as the justices weigh issues such as when states can go to court to contest federal policies and how courts should interpret laws giving power to federal agencies. Nebraska , was filed by six states with Republican attorneys general. The first case, Biden v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

But beneath the straightforward legal question lies a revealing pattern of inconsistency from some of the Courts conservatives. Elon Musk and his DOGE crew went into USAID and halted nearly all payments, which created an interesting legal problem that had been mostly theoretical prior to the current administration. First was Biden v.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Meanwhile, measures to protect or expand abortion access on Election Day failed in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota, and nearly 20 other states have banned or severely restricted abortion since the 2022 overturn of Roe v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2025

Our involvement in this case, Nebraska v. EPA (concerning light- and medium-duty vehicle emission standards), that bring the unique perspective of cities and other local governments before the courts. In Nebraska v. EPA (concerning power plant emissions standards) and Kentucky v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ultimately, the SEC will have to anticipate these types of legal challenges in finalizing a durable rule. Other legal challenges have also arisen. But no matter what the SEC does, it is likely to face a protracted legal battle when the rule is finally promulgated. Two recent cases of note have affirmed the use of the MQD.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Acting alone, Justice Amy Coney Barrett turned down two requests from opponents of the program to block it, without even seeking a response from the federal government. 11 attacks that allows the federal government to make changes to student-loan programs to respond to national emergencies. 24, 2022.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

Nebraska , characterizing the decision as a straightforward interpretation of federal law. But before the court could reach that question, it had to determine whether any of the challengers had a legal right to sue, known as standing. Nebraska , the court ruled unanimously in Department of Education v.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Jackson overturned decades of precedent to declare that the right to abortion cannot be found in the Constitution, turning the question of abortion’s legality over to the states. Nebraska, Department of Education v. Last summer, Dobbs v. Milligan and Moore v. Harvard ), religious and LGBTQ+ rights ( 303 Creative LLC v.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. It was another week filled with legal ethics news, so lets dive right into the headlines but be sure to keep scrolling down for the special First Monday content.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

During a nearly 28-year career on the court, Breyer shunned rigid approaches to legal interpretation, often seeking functional rulings with an eye toward real-world consequences. Religion was another area in which Breyer, who is Jewish, sought to reach a solution that worked, even if it did not necessarily hew closely to legal orthodoxy.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nebraska and Department of Education v. Elizabeth Slattery is a senior legal fellow at Pacific Legal Foundation , a nonprofit legal organization that defends Americans’ individual liberty and constitutional rights. Department of Education (brought by my colleagues at Pacific Legal Foundation).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Government research and independent assessments (see, e.g., here and here ) contradict President Trumps findings about insufficient energy supply and grid unreliability. Nebraska that emergency authority does not empower the President to take actions free from statutory limitations. 4531(a)(1). 7545(c)(4)(C)(ii)(III).

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the 17 years following her graduation from law school, Jackson held a variety of legal jobs. Carhart , for example, the court – in an opinion by Breyer – struck down a Nebraska law that banned so-called “partial birth” abortions, while in Santa Fe Independent School District v. In Stenberg v. On appeal, the D.C.

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