For nearly 40 years and in more than 18,000 judicial opinions, federal courts have used the Chevron doctrine to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court...more
9/3/2024
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
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Chevron v NRDC ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Corner Post Inc v Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
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Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
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OCC ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Relentless Inc v US Department of Commerce ,
SCOTUS ,
Stare Decisis ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
U.S. Treasury
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 6, 2024, that the Indian Health Service (IHS) must pay contract support costs with respect to program income – payments from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers – received by tribes...more
Section 106(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code expressly abrogates the sovereign immunity of "governmental units" for purposes of certain bankruptcy-related litigation. A split of authority concerning whether that abrogation...more
President Obama nominated Merrick Garland on March 16, 2016, to be an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Garland now serves as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Despite...more
4/5/2016
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Indian Gaming ,
Judicial Appointments ,
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Native American Issues ,
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SCOTUS ,
Tribal Lands
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Jan. 20, 2016, in Nebraska v. Pender, its third Indian law case of the term. The question presented was whether Congress had diminished the Omaha Indian Reservation when it...more