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Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline

Constitutional Law Reporter

New Jersey, 594 U. a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction of a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. Several parties, including respondent New Jersey, petitioned for review of FERC’s order in the D.C. In PennEast Pipeline Co. S. _ (2021), a divided U.S.

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A Hearing on Herring: Supreme Court to Hear Potentially Historic Chevron Case

JonathanTurley

At issue is the continued meaning (or even viability) of the Chevron doctrine, the 40-year-old doctrine granting deference to federal agencies in regulations carrying out federal laws. Natural Resources Defense Council that judges should defer to the reasonable interpretation of agencies in administering ambiguous federal laws.

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Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline

Constitutional Law Reporter

New Jersey, 594 U. a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction of a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. Several parties, including respondent New Jersey, petitioned for review of FERC’s order in the D.C. In PennEast Pipeline Co. S. _ (2021), a divided U.S.

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Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline

Constitutional Law Reporter

New Jersey , 594 U. a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction of a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. Several parties, including respondent New Jersey, petitioned for review of FERC’s order in the D.C. In PennEast Pipeline Co. S. __ __ (2021), a divided U.S.

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Delaware Loses Bid to Keep Uncashed MoneyGram Checks

Constitutional Law Reporter

MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. New Jersey , 379 U.S. Second, due to the recordkeeping practices of the entity issuing and holding on to the prepaid funds, abandoned money orders and the Disputed Instruments both escheat inequitably under the Court’s common-law rules. “It

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Looking Back at the Biggest Constitutional Law Decisions of 2023

Constitutional Law Reporter

Constitutional law took center stage in many U.S. Supreme Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court cases decided in 2023. The post Looking Back at the Biggest Constitutional Law Decisions of 2023 appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Rutgers Professor and Law Student Under Fire for Reading Racial Slur From Judicial Opinion

JonathanTurley

The New York Times is reporting that a Rutgers Law Professor and law student are under fire after the student reluctantly read the n-word in a 1993 legal opinion. That triggers a petition from students to demand action from the law school and apologies from both the professor and the student. At about 12 a.m.,

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