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Justice Breyer: A pragmatic moderate

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Idealogues have sought to reshape the court’s jurisprudence in their own ideological vision, whether liberal or conservative, often at the expense of stare decisis and typically voiced most vigorously in dissenting opinions. While on leave from Harvard, he served as a senior legal adviser in the Senate. The pragmatist.

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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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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. Talevski’s wife and legal guardian brought a Section 1983 action on his behalf against VCR, HHC, and other entities, alleging violations of his FNHRA rights.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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Both cases arise in the context of administrative proceedings brought by independent enforcement agencies against regulated parties — Axon by the Federal Trade Commission, and Cochran by the Securities and Exchange Commission. relisted after the April 29 conference). Securities and Exchange Commission v. Cochran , 21-1239.

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

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First, he cites legislative history demonstrating the general pro-claimant design of the veterans’ benefits laws as well as Congress’ more specific intent that the “clear and unmistakable error” remedy reach the kind of legal error at issue in the case.

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Allegations of racial bias in a death penalty trial

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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. In Securities and Exchange Commission v. The case is sufficiently similar to Axon Enterprise, Inc.

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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.