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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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VCR is a government nursing facility in Indiana owned by petitioner Health and Hospital Corp., HHC argues that courts must read Section 1983 against the background of 1871 common law (when Congress enacted the KKK Act); common law at that time did not allow third-party beneficiaries to enforce contracts, particularly government contracts.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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But the NMFS’s interpretation of the law as obligating the industry, rather than the government, to bear the costs is a reasonable interpretation under the second step of Chevron , the court of appeals ruled. Solicitor General Paul Clement, as well as lawyers from the New Jersey public-interest firm Cause of Action.

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A call for the wider study of Private International Law in Africa: A Review of Private International Law In Nigeria

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Successive Nigerian governments across all tiers have made the attraction of foreign investments a cardinal part of their economic policies and have accordingly made deliberate efforts and committed abundant resources to attract foreign investments into Nigeria. [1]

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