ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

Fitzgerald , unanimously agreeing on Monday that a statute that imposes higher fees on bankruptcy filers in 48 states than in the other two states is so far from “uniform” that it transgresses the Constitution’s requirement that Congress provide “uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

The relevant statute , regulating disability benefits, provides that “the United States will pay [compensation] to any veteran” who is “disabled” as a result of (1) “personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty,” or (2) “aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty.” military veterans.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2021

In this case, for example, the claimants in agency proceedings from 2013 to 2015 did not know that a 2018 decision of the Supreme Court would invalidate the SSA’s process for appointing administrative law judges, and so they did not complain about that process before the agency.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2023

The technicians in this case had been unionized for 45 years when the Guard, in effect, terminated its collective-bargaining relationship with their union, the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 3970, AFL-CIO. The case begins with a common “union avoidance” narrative.

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LettersBlogatory

DECEMBER 8, 2022

KBR Government Operations. The Defense Base Act is a federal statute that gives a worker’s compensation-like benefit to employees of US government and military contractors injured at work overseas. If so, is the administrative law judge a judicial authority? The case of the day is Begisholli v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Talevski , to be argued Tuesday, returns the court to the question of when federal law is subject to private enforcement. 1983 — which allows private suits for state and local deprivations of rights secured by federal law—to enforce federal statutes enacted under Congress’ spending clause power. a municipal entity.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The two cases involve substantively identical statutes that govern challenges to final orders issued by the FTC and the SEC. In each case, the statutes provide that the sole method for challenging those orders is a petition for review in the court of appeals. Those are the two statutes we have. Again, what am I missing?

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2024

The case here involves administrative proceedings under the National Labor Relations Act. Under the statutory framework, the NLRB files an administrative complaint, which launches an agency proceeding before an administrative law judge, whose decision is subject to review by the NLRB and then, in due course, in the federal courts of appeals.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

This week they’re replaced by three new relists, all involving government petitions in one way or another. Both cases present the question whether statutes that authorize appellate courts to review final agency adjudications implicitly strip district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to those proceedings.

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Customs & International Trade Law

MAY 13, 2022

Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade law news: FDA. On May 10, 2022, the Federal Maritime Commission ( Commission ) published that they are seeking public comment on proposed modifications to its rules governing Carrier Automated Tariffs through this notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Court’s Chevron decision established a bedrock principle of administrative law. Under Chevron , courts must defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute that the agency is charged with administering, even if they are inclined to rule another way. Natural Resources Defense Council , 467 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The first case involves Axon Enterprise, an Arizona company that makes police body cameras and other technology products for law enforcement. The general federal jurisdiction statute ( 28 U.S.C. Axon has been mired in FTC investigations and proceedings since it purchased a competitor in 2018.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Garland , 20-979 , which seems a likely grant, because the government, as respondent, agrees that there is a circuit split and review is warranted on one of the questions presented. citizen for a benefit under state law. The court also has a pair of new administrative law cases, both captioned American Hospital Association v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

The Magnuson-Stevens Act governs the management of fisheries in federal waters and provides that the National Marine Fisheries Service may require vessels to carry federal observers onboard to enforce agency regulations to prevent overfishing. A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. In dissent, Judge Justin R. 24 and Mar.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 14, 2022

1983 ; and (2) whether, assuming spending clause statutes ever give rise to private rights enforceable via Section 1983, the Federal Nursing Home Amendments Act of 1987 ’s transfer and medication rules do so.” Axon Enterprise, Inc. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.:

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an opinion that is currently under appeal in the Third Circuit, the Middle District court held that, because the federal government has authority to determine transmission system needs and potential solutions, a state cannot deny a siting permit based on its own determination that a project is not needed. FERC Order No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2023

Under the INA, a withholding-of-removal applicant must show they are likely to be persecuted in the country to which the government will send them. However, the government can rebut this presumption by showing that the applicant’s life or freedom would not be threatened in the removal country due to their membership in a protected group.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Chestek PLLC, a law firm run by Pamela Chestek and specializing in trademark law, challenged the domicile address rule itself, saying its imposition failed to comply with the notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). licensed counsel. ” 5 U.S.C. §

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Patently O

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A decision favoring the petitioner would also be seen as bolstering the Administrative Procedure Act’s notice and comment requirements. The best place to begin any analysis is probably with the statute. The key trademark statute followed by the USPTO is the 1946 Lanham Act. ” 15 U.S.C. 1051(a)(2). Boundy Brief.

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

After plaintiff appealed the decision, an Administrative Law Judge determined that plaintiff was in fact entitled to benefits from defendant. 27-9-114 and § 45-3-322, which together establish that “[j]udicial review of an administrative agency’s action is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Chancery Court.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Empire Health Foundation, the Supreme Court had yet another chance to topple the Chevron doctrine , a stalwart of administrative law under which courts generally defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes. Share On Friday, in Becerra v. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To leave the decision unreviewed would force Congress to revise substantially the affected portions of the securities laws solely based on the opinion of one divided lower court panel – hence, the Supreme Court’s buffet of constitutional law topics on Wednesday morning.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Morrissey-Berru , under which employees deemed “ministers” of religious institutions are not covered by various employment and discrimination laws. In 1981, Congress passed a statute requiring that reimbursement rates paid to organizations for managing state Medicaid plans must be “actuarially sound.” Next up is Texas v. 10 and Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Becerra , a sleeper of a case involving billions of dollars in federal spending and a chance to reshape two doctrines at the heart of administrative law. Drugs, money, and the law: Sounds sexy, right? The case centers on part of a 2003 law that gives Medicare two options for how to pay for those drugs.

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Customs & International Trade Law

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade law news: Customs and Border Protection (CBP). currency reporting laws. . 7) of the presiding administrative law judge (‘‘ALJ’’), finding respondent Top Golf Equipment Co. United States Department of State (DOS). United States Department of Commerce (DOC).

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The justices said not a word about the second challenge, and they made only one offhand comment about the third challenge, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested in passing that the administrative law judges’s appointments won’t pass muster with him. It just can’t take away a person’s right to be heard before his peers.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

837 (1984), courts must defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute that the agency is charged with administering, even if they are inclined to rule another way. The Court’s decision in Chevron is one of the most frequently cited administrative law decisions. In Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Chevron doctrine, a pillar of administrative law, also looms large in the case. Natural Resources Defense Council , determines when a federal court must defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. That doctrine, first applied in 1984 in Chevron U.S.A. The Chevron analysis involves two steps.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rahimi , which involves a petition for review by the federal government, strikes me as a particularly likely candidate for review. The federal government now asks the justices to weigh in on the case, arguing that the domestic violence ban is constitutional. That last case, United States v. That’s all for this term. Louis, Mo. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Orthwein distinguished professor of law at Washington University in St. He is coauthor of a casebook on administrative law and has written many articles on that subject. There has never been any mystery about the jurisprudential premises of Justice Stephen Breyer’s approach to issues of public law. Similarly, in Lucia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 18, 2023

The court’s grant suggests the court may be poised to narrow the scope of standing for members of Congress to sue to enforce statutes. Somewhat surprisingly, the court took both the case the government recommended, Jackson v. FDIC , involving separation of powers and administrative law claims. First up is Calcutt v.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 26, 2023

With no action from the White House, Apple now faces a federal government order to halt imports and sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 devices because it incorporates light-based pulse oximetry technology covered by the claims of Masimo’s U.S. But, eBay only applies in district court cases, and does not apply to USITC decisions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. From health care to finance to environmental pollutants, administrative agencies use highly trained experts to interpret and carry out federal laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

After nearly two-and-a-half hours of debate, it was difficult to predict precisely how the justices will resolve the case, which could have significant implications not only for the the executive branch’s ability to set immigration policy but also for states’ ability to sue the federal government when they disagree with its actions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Under Chevron , a reviewing court examines the statute under which an agency claims the authority to regulate, to see if Congressional intent is clear. If a reviewing court were to show no deference to past practice, nor a willingness to read the agency’s enabling statute deferentially, it could hamstring the agency’s ability to regulate.

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