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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

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New York maintains that the terms of the compact provide that only Congress can repeal it and that, insofar as the compact represents a federal statute, its breach violates federal law. In earlier litigation, the Waterfront Commission sued the New Jersey governor to prevent him from enforcing the law. However, the U.S.

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Justices Refuse to Require Issue Exhaustion of Social Security Claimant

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Saul, 593 U.S. _ (2021) , that the principles of issue exhaustion do not require Social Security disability claimants to argue at the agency level that the administrative law judges hearing their disability claims were unconstitutionally appointed. Supreme Court unanimously held in Carr v. Facts of the Case. Thereafter, the U.S.

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

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Cochran present a frontal assault on the traditional framework under which federal courts have entertained complaints about federal agencies. That point is made most tellingly in Cochran’s case: She’s already won on that route once (after Lucia ) and she’s still at the SEC in litigation four years later.

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Court will confront jurisdictional jumble in the case of a transgender woman seeking relief from deportation

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The noncitizens appearing before them face a host of daunting challenges — language barriers, financial strain, lack of legal assistance, and years-long delays — before they can entertain any hope of resolving their immigration status. Against this rather bleak backdrop comes the low-profile case of Santos-Zacaria v.