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Supreme Court restricts universal injunctions, but plaintiffs find a “workaround”

At the end of its 2024-25 term, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Trump v. CASA, Inc. that federal district courts do not have equity power to issue so-called “universal” (also known as “nationwide”) injunctions. At issue in...more

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Circuit Split No More: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds FCC Universal Service Fund Authority

The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that held both Congress’s delegation of USF authority to the FCC and the FCC’s subsequent delegation of its authority to a private administrator...more

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U.S. Supreme Court upholds FCC’s Universal Service Fund framework

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The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) v. Consumers’ Research removed the uncertainty that hung over the FCC’s Universal Service Fund (USF) programs since July 2024, when the U.S. Court...more

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SCOTUS Rejects FCC Edicts: Courts are (Finally) Free to Interpret the TCPA

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In a highly anticipated decision with broad implications for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) litigants, on June 20, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v....more

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SCOTUS Allows Private Company’s License for Stand-Alone Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility

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On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Texas, et al., reinstated a license originally issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), permitting the storage of depleted...more

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Supreme Court decides interim storage case on procedural grounds in NRC v. Texas

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On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in NRC v. Texas to resolve a circuit split over the storage of spent nuclear fuel between the Tenth Circuit, D.C. Circuit, and Fifth...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Denies Alpine’s Petition Challenging Constitutionality of FINRA Enforcement Proceedings

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On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Alpine Securities Corp. in Alpine Securities Corp. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. In doing so, the Supreme Court declined...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Defers to Agency Decision-Making in FDA’s Denial of Premarket Approval of Flavored E-Cigarette Products

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We previously reported a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), denying the premarketing authorization of several flavored e-cigarette product. On April 2, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States...more

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The Supreme Court Update - April 2, 2025

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions today: FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., No. 23-1038: This case concerns the validity of the FDA’s denial of electronic cigarette manufacturers’...more

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Supreme Court Decides Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vanderstok, et al.

On March 26, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vanderstok, et al., No. 23-852, and held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) rule interpreting the Gun Control...more

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Ghost Guns and the Bankruptcy Code: Neither Provides Ammunition for Dismissing Actions - SCOTUS Today

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The Supreme Court decided two cases today, continuing the release of opinions on which the Court is not deeply divided. The tougher ones are yet to come....more

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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Case Regarding FCC’s Authority to Interpret Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that has the potential to sound the death knell to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to bind courts to its interpretation of the Telephone...more

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SCOTUS Poised to Expand District Court Review of FCC Orders

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that will likely determine whether a federal district court or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has the final say on how to interpret the Telephone...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Overturn New York’s Affordable Broadband Act

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The U.S. Supreme Court closed out 2024 by confirming states’ authority to regulate internet service providers. On December 16, 2024, the Court denied certiorari in New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc., et al....more

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Why the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Were Struck Down

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The decades-long fight over net neutrality appears to be over. In one of the first appellate decisions since the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo...more

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How Broad Is Too Broad? Supreme Court Considers Scope of NEPA

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to address a circuit split over whether an agency doing an environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) must consider effects beyond its regulatory jurisdiction,...more

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In Rawat, DC Circuit construes the Code and regulations without deference, providing an example of statutory and regulatory...

On July 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Court of Appeals) released a decision in Rawat v. Commissioner (available here). The case considers whether the portion of a non-US...more

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Title IX Regulations Enjoined in Four More States as Department of Education Appeals Earlier Injunctions

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On July 2, Judge John Broomes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas handed down yet another preliminary injunction blocking the Title IX regulations issued in April, following on the heels of similar orders...more

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