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US Supreme Court to hear Quiet Title Act statute of limitations case

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Wilson deals with the QTA’s 12 year statute of limitations for claimants and asks whether the statute of limitations is a jurisdictional rule or a claim-processing rule. The court has twice ruled that the 12 year statute of limitations in the QTA is a jurisdictional rule in Block v. North Dakota and United States v.

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North Dakota truck stop objects to federal allowance for debit-card processing fees

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The question comes to the court in a case filed by the Corner Post, a small truck stop in North Dakota that is seeking to challenge the Federal Reserve’s nearly 12-year-old cap on debit-card fees. In April 2021, two North Dakota trade associations went to court to challenge the cap on processing fees.

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Ownership of Pore Space – North Dakota Supreme Court Opinion Protects Surface Owners’ Rights

OilandGasLawyer

Last week the Supreme Court of North Dakota handed down its opinion in Northwest Landowners Association v. State of North Dakota, 2022 ND 150. The court struck down portions of a statute passed by the North Dakota Legislature, Senate Bill 2344, dealing with ownership rights to “pore space.”

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US Supreme Court rules late tax petitions for due process determinations subject to equitable tolling

JURIST

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said: “[T]he fact that a North Dakota Law Firm, Boechler, P.C., The statute does not say that as to the 30-day deadline. Multiple justices commented that the government’s case could be undermined by the many plausible statutory interpretations of a 30-day deadline. Vaello-Madero , Brown v.

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Equitable tolling in a corner of the Internal Revenue Code

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a North Dakota law firm, of intent to levy on Boechler’s property to satisfy a tax penalty. It held instead that the statute is not jurisdictional, and that equitable tolling is an available argument in Tax Court. The statute provides for jurisdiction over “such matter,” but does not say what “such matter” is.

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Twelve cases added to Supreme Court calendar

SCOTUSBlog

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , the justices agreed to decide when the six-year statute of limitations to challenge an action by a federal agency begins to run: Is it when the agency issues the rule, even if the plaintiff has not yet suffered any injury from the action; or is it instead when the plaintiff is actually injured?

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A tax deadline missed by one day leads to a showdown over equity, jurisdiction – and grammar

SCOTUSBlog

It will also add to the court’s precedent on the interaction between the law of equity and the technicalities of federal statutes. Partly because of the circuit split and partly because of the statute’s lack of clarity, this could be a close case. Department of Veterans Affairs. How can the presumption be rebutted?

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