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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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Talevski , to be argued Tuesday, returns the court to the question of when federal law is subject to private enforcement. The court will consider whether to overrule a line of precedent and to hold that private individuals cannot use 42 U.S.C. The district court dismissed the action, but the U.S. of Marion County v.

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Justice Breyer: A pragmatic moderate

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Brent Newton is a visiting professor of law at Penn State-Dickinson School of Law. He previously taught seminars on Breyer’s jurisprudence at American University Washington College of Law. Two spectrums exist among Supreme Court justices, particularly those who have served since the New Deal ushered in the modern America.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The United States is easily the most successful petitioner before the Supreme Court, winning review in over 70% of the cases in which it files a cert petition. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed.

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Justices to consider scope of “clear and unmistakable error” review of Veterans Affairs decisions

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Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reached the same conclusion a year later, holding that “the government must show … both a preexisting condition and a lack of in-service aggravation to overcome the presumption of soundness.” In particular, George points to House and Senate committee reports that endorse case law from the U.S.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers.

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Allegations of racial bias in a death penalty trial

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Cochran , the justices will decide whether federal district courts have the power to consider claims challenging the constitutionality of the commission’s administrative law proceedings.