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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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Relying on Chevron , the district court rejected that argument, holding that the act clearly authorized industry-funded observers in the herring industry. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld that result, but on a different rationale. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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

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Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. Americans United for Life argues that “ Roe and Casey contradict the stare decisis values of consistency, dependability, and predictability and are entitled to minimal stare decisis respect.”

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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

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That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have banned life in prison without parole for children under state law.

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No, Justices Did Not Commit Perjury in Their Confirmation Hearings When Asked About Roe

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After all, in 1985, Alito wrote as a Justice Department lawyer that the Constitution does not contain a right protecting abortions. The first question would be the question that we’ve been discussing and that’s the issue of stare decisis. You begin with the touchstone of stare decisis and the preference for preserving precedent.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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Would they strike down Roe and Casey , as lawyers for Mississippi urged them to do, or would they stop short of formally overruling those cases but still uphold the state’s ban? The only real question was how far the justices might go. Ketanji Brown Jackson, a judge on the U.S.

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