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Improving Efficiency to Increase Competition Act: Burdens of Bayh-Dole

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In December 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released draft guidance outlining how agencies can consider price as a factor when deciding whether to exercise march-in rights.

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Justice Breyer: A formidable defender of reproductive rights

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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. A close reading of Stenberg v.

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February Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: Children’s TV Reporting, License Renewals, EEO Filings, FCC Proceedings, and More

Broadcast Law Blog

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. Reply comments will be due by March 14. See the Federal Register notice, here.

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Last day of the term

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He refers to the debt relief as “vast” and “staggering,” and characterizes the program as Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona drafting “a new law of his own … without congressional authorization.” Brown , in which the court unanimously ruled that the individual student loan borrowers in the case did not have a legal right to sue.

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

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Nebraska and Department of Education v. The plan was rolled out via a handful of press releases , a fact sheet , and two memos — without the standard rulemaking procedure that includes providing notice of a draft rule and giving affected individuals the opportunity to comment on it. A preview of the cases is here.

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Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny

Constitutional Law Reporter

Nebraska , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. What the Secretary has actually done is draft a new section of the Education Act from scratch by ‘waiving’ provisions root and branch and then filling the empty space with radically new text.” In Biden v. Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program.

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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. states—Nebraska, New Hampshire, and North Dakota—have adopted similar statutes based on the Model Choice of Forum Act. Afghanistan Ltd, No. 350393 (Mich. This case is noteworthy for a number of reasons.