SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
McDonough , a case about retroactive disability benefits for veterans who failed to apply for those benefits within the one-year window prescribed by a federal statute. 5110(b)(1) is a statute of limitations to determine whether the Irwin presumption, which allows for equitable tolling, applies. Thus, the presumption should not apply.
Patently O
MAY 25, 2021
He authors a series linking law school canonical cases with intellectual property counterparts. Of course, that is the same song and dance as every personal jurisdiction question hypo given in Civil Procedure classes. It was often easy to take the statutory authorization for granted or as a given in class.
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Above The Law
APRIL 17, 2023
CNN ] * US News delays release of law school rankings following freak out from schools worried about what their own stupid boycott caused. He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure.
LLRX
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
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SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
United States felt like a legislation class in law school, with various canons of statutory construction being bandied about. Dubin concerns the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute and whether a person must steal another’s identity to commit the crime. But Fisher did not stop there.
JURIST
APRIL 15, 2024
Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. Justice Kagan asked if the required mental state in the statute helps to alleviate that concern. No citation [to the record].
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Arellano appealed, requesting that the timetable in the controlling statute, 38 U.S.C. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, unanimously found that equitable tolling is not available to Arellano, but was split on whether the statute could be equitably tolled. In Irwin v.
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