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

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S.

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Justices decisively reject imposing issue exhaustion on Social Security claimants

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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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Justices seem receptive to opening up early challenges to agency proceedings

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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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Court to mull injunction in Starbucks case against Memphis union organizers

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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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Justices will assess federal labor protections for National Guard technicians

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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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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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This week they’re replaced by three new relists, all involving government petitions in one way or another. The question is whether the United States is such a successful litigant that the court will grant review even in cases it doesn’t want the court to review. Federal Trade Commission.

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

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It sued in a federal district court, arguing that the FTC’s proceedings are unconstitutional both because the method of appointing ALJs (administrative law judges) violates the Constitution’s appointments clause and because the combination of investigatory, prosecutorial, and adjudicatory functions offends the due process clause.

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