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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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The stakes in the case are high: The challengers argue that the current deferential standard is unconstitutional, while the Biden administration contends that overturning the existing doctrine would be a “convulsive shock to the legal system.” The doctrine at the center of the case is known as the Chevron doctrine.

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In family’s lawsuit against public nursing home, court revisits private rights of action and the spending clause

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VCR is a government nursing facility in Indiana owned by petitioner Health and Hospital Corp., A state administrative law judge found one late-2016 transfer to have violated FNHRA and ordered Talevski returned to VCR; the family chose to move him to a different facility. a municipal entity.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities. Living Rivers v.

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