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Justices' Climate Ruling May Transform Administrative Law

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Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency has shed light on how the court's decision could significantly limit the federal government's efforts to address climate change, and reshape administrative law and the separation of powers, say Matthew Sinkman and Andrew Alessandro at Gibbons.

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Court holds disparate fees in business bankruptcy cases unconstitutional

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In this case, for example, Circuit City Stores, which filed its bankruptcy case in Virginia, paid over $500,000 more in fees than it would have paid had it filed a few hundred miles to the south in North Carolina. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s brief opinion for the court treated the case as a simple one.

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Customs and Trade Law Weekly Snapshot

Customs & International Trade Law

of Reston, Virginia. The Commission has also determined to refer this matter to the Chief Administrative Law Judge (“CALJ”) for assignment to an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) for appropriate proceedings and an initial advisory opinion (“IAO”).

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

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Issue : Whether the dormant commerce clause prohibits Pennsylvania from extending its lending laws beyond its borders to loans that out-of-state lenders make to Pennsylvania residents at brick-and-mortar stores in Delaware, Virginia, and Ohio. City of Oakland, California v. Oakland Raiders. Disclosure : Goldstein & Russell, P.C.,

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: March 13 to March 17, 2023

Broadcast Law Blog

As we’ve reported in previous weekly updates, the FCC’s Media Bureau has issued a hearing designation order referring questions about Standard General Broadcasting’s proposed acquisition of the TEGNA broadcast stations to an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for an evidentiary hearing.

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Federal Court Limits State Authority to Deny Interstate Transmission Projects

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PJM determined that a project proposed by Transource consisting of new transmission lines running from West Virginia to Maryland would reduce this congestion and provide net positive economic benefits. PJM therefore concluded that there was a public need for the project, based on FERC-approved methods for determining public need.

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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. Virginia Hospital Association (1990), and hold that spending clause enactments are not enforceable through Section 1983. Arguments of HHC.