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Supreme Court Hears Challenge to EPA’s Good Neighbor Rule

Constitutional Law Reporter

One of the most closely watched is Ohio v. Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.

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At a vestige of the Manhattan Project, a fight over workers’ compensation and intergovernmental immunity

SCOTUSBlog

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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Trump’s Liability Or Opportunity? Two Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump Over Capitol Riot

JonathanTurley

COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. COUNT FIVE (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. ” Imagine what would happen to free speech in the United States if people could be sued for their “suggestive words and encouragement” for third parties who later violate the law. In Brandenburg v.