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25 Nov 12:20 pm
... Equal Pay Act of 1963, sending the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification in 1972), and declared: "Thus, Congress itself has
concluded that classifications based upon sex are inherently invidious, and this conclusion of a co ... to the question presently under consideration." Accordingly, it seems to me
appropriate that in Heller and McDonald, large majorities of Congress signed briefs reminding the Court of a century-and-a-half of
Congressional actions taken to protect the individual ...
21 Nov 5:10 am
... to date. To be clear, this includes the otherwise privileged documents that BofA agreed to produced to Cuomo, the SEC, Congress ... It is
speculated the protective order those documents were produced under (and was conceivably requested to prohibit any other ... be construed as protecting from protection only those
documents not already produced or requested by Cuomo, the SEC, Congress ... Recall: a separate plaintiff's suit is proceeding against BofA in
the Delaware Chancery Court, and earlier this ...
21 Nov 2:24 pm
JOHN LOUDON: Congress, we don't trust you with health care at all.
24 Nov 5:56 am
The XVIIIth International Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law is fast approaching (as is the deadline for early and
slightly cheaper registration). The Congress is hosted by American University's Washington College of Law, the George Washington University Law
School, and the Georgetown University Law Center. It takes place in Washington DC from 25 July to 1 August 2010.
25 Nov 10:01 am
Category: FYI;Legal History Body: For a brief history of Thanksgiving presidential proclamations and congressional resolutions beginning with the first Federal Congress, see the following National Archives web page: Congress Establishes Thanksgiving Published: 11/25/2009 4:52
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25 Nov 10:32 am
... state lines and did not affect interstate commerce. The Eleventh Circuit dismissed this argument as "meritless" stating that "Congress has
the power to regulate the internet" which is "an instrumentality of interstate commerce." Further, the defendant argued that since the ... delegates to the states responsibility to
regulate wholly intrastate activity, it is not necessary and proper for Congress to do so. The district court also applied a two-level
enhancement for "undue influence," which the ...
26 Nov 12:11 am
First the Law Library of Congress was on Twitter (http://twitter.com/LawLibCongress), and now we are on Facebook. Become a fan for information
on our upcoming events, new legal research reports, and conversation. Our Facebook page includes our location, our hours, and where else on the web you can find the Law Library of
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19 Nov 2:10 pm
A valuable web tool - tinyThom.as - that makes the links on the Library of Congress' legislative website, THOMAS, permanent, has been
introduced recently; see: Mighty Tiny Thomas Cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus.
20 Nov 6:35 am
Late last week, besieged ACORN launched a legal counter-attack by filing a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Eastern District of New York. Represented by the Center for
Constitutional Rights, ACORN argues that Congress's decision to deny ACORN...
21 Nov 9:00 am
The IV World Congress on Child and Adolescent Rights will take place in Puerto Rico* from the 15th to the 18th of November 2010. This renowned
event draws nearly 1,000 participants and more than 20 countries are represented. Its main...
21 Nov 1:36 pm
Congress Introduces Criminal Justice Reinvestment Act of 2009 This week, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Adam Schiff introduced
the Criminal Justice Reinvestment Act of 2009. The bill is numbered S 2772 for the Senate and HR 4080 for the House....
25 Nov 11:11 am
... , -F.3d-2009 WL 3270005 (11th Cir. October 13, 2009) The district court recently held that a defendant's charge of §2250 (traveling in interstate commerce) and failure to adhere to
SORNA's sex offender registration requirements under 42 U.S.C. §16913 exceeded Congress' authority and dismissed the government's indictment.
However, on appeal, the Eleventh Circuit held that the Ambert case, 561 F.3d 1202 (11th Cir. 2009) is still good law (upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) and 42 U.S.C. §16913 to a ...
24 Nov 8:51 am
Very timely commentary by veteran labor and employment law practitioner, Susan Silber, on the need for Congress to move on the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) now. A taste from her post on the ACSBlog: For months now, we have been...
28 Dec, 2006 6:52 am
... had to fashion legislation that was proportionate to and congruent with the Fourteenth Amendment evil that it sought to erradicate. Congress' failure to ground its legislation on the Fourteenth Amendment, in and of itself, presents problems for the abrogation inquiry. ... over actual or
imminent copyright infringement by states in violation of the Due Process clause, Congress was moved by its conclusion "that it would be
anomalous and unjustified for State ··· institutions to be exempt from certain ...
1 Feb, 2007 8:05 am
... the military conflict and determine whether to end the authorization to use military force. . . . A declaration of war by Congress is in
effect a blank check to the Executive to conduct military operations to bring about subjugation of the nation against whom ... to the States respectively, the Appointment of the
Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To make all Laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the ...
17 Mar 8:12 pm
... Democrats have a plan if AIG executives do not voluntarily return (would you?) their bonuses: [Congress] will seek to recoup $165 million
in bonuses paid to executives of the troubled insurance giant American International Group through a narrowly ... of Attainder is a legislative act that singles out an individual or
group of individuals for punishment without a trial. Clearly Congress, should it pass a special law increasing the tax on only the AIG bonuses,
would be singling out the recipients of ...
20 Mar 4:20 pm
... of a special, confiscatory tax on the recipients of the contractually obligated AIG bonuses clearly interferes with the underlying contracts. Congress' special tax would have the effect of disrupting "something that belongs to someone else." In fact, that disruption ... , which waives the immunity
over claims arising out of contracts to which the federal government is a party. Does Congress Have the Power and Right to Impose a Special Tax
on the Recipients of Payments of AIG's Post-Bailout Accounts ...
26 Apr 10:20 pm
... 2010 drop-dead date: The looming expiration of the Bush tax cuts offers an opportunity that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress seem determined to squander. No one is proposing allowing all the tax cuts to expire as scheduled, on Dec ... 250,000, the estate tax cuts and a
temporary fix for the alternative minimum patch. What's compelling about all this is not that Congress is prepared to break its own rules -
it's done that many times before - but that President Obama recently sent a ...
5 May 1:29 pm
Congress is moving swiftly to enact legislation suggested by President Obama that would crack down on American taxpayers offshore transactions:
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is in the process of finalizing legislation which would increase the Internal Revenue Service's powers to scrutinize transactions involving
offshore entities. According to Baucus, the legislation, which seeks to amend the US tax code to "improve tax compliance with respect to offshore transactions" will ...
2 Jul 5:56 am
... in the world of taxation when two things occur: The indefatigable Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, tells Congress what the IRS
must do to improve its service and comport with its stated mission; and Congress yawns. Ms. Olson ... emphasized in bold italics the language
that indicates Ms. Olson has unsuccessfully made these same recommendations to Congress before: Taxpayer Services The Advocate's report
expresses concern that the momentum to implement and refine the TAB recommendations has ...
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