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Court holds disparate fees in business bankruptcy cases unconstitutional

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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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Revenge of the rescheduled cases: Congressional proxy voting, the ministerial exception, and more

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In 1981, Congress passed a statute requiring that reimbursement rates paid to organizations for managing state Medicaid plans must be “actuarially sound.” The case has already been rescheduled three times, clearly indicating it’s on at least one of the justices’ radar. Next up is Texas v. rescheduled before the Nov. 10 and Jan.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. The challenge of meeting changing conditions in administrative law is known as the pacing problem: scientific and technological developments will nearly always outstrip the pace of government oversight. Env’t Prot.

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