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Machine gun history

The Volokh Conspiracy

My new article in the Wyoming Law Review, Machine Gun History and Bibliography , aims to fill the gap. The article appears in a s ymposium issue of the Wyoming Law Review , based on papers presented at a 2024 conference held by the law school's Firearms Research Center , where I am a senior fellow.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Removing Silencers from the NFA

The Volokh Conspiracy

This is documented in my article The Power to Tax, The Second Amendment, and the Search for Which "'Gangster' Weapons" To Tax , 25 Wyoming Law Review 149 (2025). Moreover, studies show that silencers are rarely used in violent crimes. Moreover, removing silencers from the NFA in no way deregulates them. United States , 300 U.S.

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Court wrestles with Superfund contribution puzzle

SCOTUSBlog

United States featured sharply different interpretations of the contribution provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or the Superfund statute. Guam is appealing a ruling by the U.S. Navy for the cost of cleaning up the Ordot Dump. But the U.S.

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Tribal self-governance at center of dispute over federal health care costs

SCOTUSBlog

Under the federal statute governing these contracts, tribes can then keep third-party insurance revenue so long as they spend it on health care. To comply with both its Indian Health Service contract and the federal statute, the court of appeals explained, the tribe has to spend revenue from third parties on health care programs.

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SpaceX Leaves Delaware; Should Others Follow?

Strictly Business

While certain of these advantages exist to varying degrees in other states, such as Nevada or Wyoming, and it often makes sense to incorporate them in your home state, it is still the case that no other state has the historical depth of case law and sophisticated jurisprudence as Delaware.

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Delaware’s Corporate Crack-Up: The “Great” Business Exodus and Its Legal Fallout

Fordham Law News

Ohio is currently home to more than 15 Fortune 500 companies and offers a statute-based approach to corporate law, which offers companies increased stability. [19] 23, 2024), [link] ; see also Pierluigi Matera, Delaware’s Dominance, Wyoming’s Dare: New Challenge, Same Outcome? , Bauman, 571 U.S. 117, 137 (2014). [5]

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Guest Blog: Connecting Data Centers to the Grid: An Innovative and Controversial Proposal from AEP Ohio

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FERC, too, has been struggling with this question.