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Court rules unanimously that tax deadline is subject to equitable tolling

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Tax Court review in a CDP case – and the taxpayer can provide an explanation persuasive in equity, which is a high bar – then the Tax Court can toll the 30-day period. a law firm, of intent to levy on Boechler’s property to satisfy a tax penalty. The court’s opinion confirms this view.

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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Appeals Court Ruling on Transgender Rights: What It Means

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Not all transgender people experience dysphoria, but the decision is a significant milestone in case law as discrimination protections and medical rights for transgender people are being challenged across the country. If it does, it’s a disability under the law. This is a huge win. Changing Definitions.

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Dobbs’s history and the future of abortion and privacy law

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Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Sherif Girgis is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. And to what will it bind lower courts? Yet while the draft changed not at all on these points, the dissent makes just one contrary claim, also raised by critics post-leak.

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Post-Roe States Advised to Fight Abortion like Organized Crime

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A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee , which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v.

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Court expands government’s ability to deport noncitizens for offenses related to obstruction of justice

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Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote.

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Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

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Under federal law, cases filed in state court can be transferred – the technical term is “removed” – to federal court if they meet one of several criteria. In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal.

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