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United States 23-226Issue: Whether a district court must recalculate a movant’s sentencing range as if Sections 2 and 3 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the time of the offense before exercising its discretion to reduce the movant’s sentence for a covered offense under the First Step Act of 2018. [read post]

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SCOTUS Tackles Key Constitutional Issues as It Kicks Off November Session

29 Nov 2023, 1:12 pm by DONALD SCARINCI

The justices have agreed to decide the following issue: “Whether district courts, in determining whether the due process clause requires a state or local government to provide a post-seizure probable-cause hearing prior to a statutory judicial-forfeiture proceeding and, if so, when such a hearing must take place, should apply the “speedy trial” test employed in United States v. $8,850 and Barker v. [read post]

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Transmission Lines and Eminent Domain: What Property Owners Need to Know

29 Nov 2023, 1:08 pm by Matthew Ackerman

” City of Troy v. [read post]

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Alabama Court Reaffirms Constitutionality of False Claims Act

29 Nov 2023, 10:07 am by luiza

United States ex rel. [read post]

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Court finds the "heart presumption" set out in the Retirement and Social Security Law was "successfully rebutted" by the Retirement System

29 Nov 2023, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Petitioner returned to work in 2008, voluntarily joining a unit tasked with returning parole absconders to the counties of their convictions. [read post]

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Court finds the "heart presumption" set out in the Retirement and Social Security Law was "successfully rebutted" by the Retirement System

29 Nov 2023, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Petitioner returned to work in 2008, voluntarily joining a unit tasked with returning parole absconders to the counties of their convictions. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Portugal sued by environmental groups over failure to fulfill legislation tackling climate change

28 Nov 2023, 11:58 am by Fiona Tsamny | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA

Court action, as stated in the report, is key to forcing governments to uphold their promises regarding climate change and does not allow them to escape accountability if they fail to do so. [read post]

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Of Separation of Powers, the SEC, and the Limits of Originalism

28 Nov 2023, 10:41 am by Eric Segall

United States, were functionalist decisions affirming new and innovative efforts to make the government more efficient. [read post]

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[Sasha Volokh] The Myth of the Federal Private Nondelegation Doctrine, Part 2

28 Nov 2023, 7:27 am by Sasha Volokh

" Does this prevent a state legislature from delegating the elector-appointing power or the district-drawing power to state courts? [read post]

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Absent action by the State Legislature, New York State's statewide policy in favor of collective bargaining in the public sector controls

28 Nov 2023, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

., Inc. v New York State Public Empl. [read post]