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In back-to-back cases, justices will scrutinize traditional limits on challenges to agency proceedings

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In both cases, the targets of agency proceedings want to challenge the legitimacy of those proceedings right away in federal court, rather than having to await the outcomes of long-running administrative processes before getting their day in court. The general federal jurisdiction statute ( 28 U.S.C.

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“Remain in Mexico” and Texas’ anti-abortion law

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After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. Arizona — confirming that the rule announced in Simmons v. Issue : Whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Lynch v.

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Litigation continues over public charge immigration rule

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Those states, led by Arizona, appealed to the Supreme Court. The justices granted the states’ petition in Arizona v. In his concurrence in Arizona , the chief justice noted his worry “whether the Government’s actions, all told, comport with the principles of administrative law.”