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Student Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Survive Supreme Court Scrutiny

Constitutional Law Reporter

The Court first addressed the threshold issue of standing, concluding that at least Missouri had the right to challenge the student loan forgiveness program. MOHELA could no longer service those closed accounts, costing it, by Missouri’s estimate, $44 million a year in fees…The plan’s harm to MOHELA is also a harm to Missouri.”

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The intermediate appellate court held that the defendant was not entitled to present the defense because he had “reasonable legal alternatives” to trespass and obstruction even if those alternatives were not effective. Missouri v. BP p.l.c. , Two amicus briefs were filed in support of the companies, one by the U.S. Biden , No.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. Twelve governors write similarly that the court’s abortion precedent represents an “intrusion into the sovereign sphere of the States.”

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What to Expect in a Post-Roe World

JonathanTurley

Roughly 16 states are poised or expected to make abortion illegal immediately under so-called trigger laws. Missouri claimed to be the first to declare all abortion as unlawful except for medical emergencies. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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