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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. New Relist.

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The Nigerian Court of Appeal declines to enforce a Commonwealth of Virginia (in USA) Choice of Court Agreement

Conflict of Laws

8] It should be stressed that Oputa JSC’s obiter dictum is not binding on lower courts according to the Nigerian common law doctrine of stare decisis. less job for Nigerian lawyers), hampers access to Nigerian justice, and does not help Nigerian judges in strengthening our legal system. What is the solution? Conclusion.

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