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9 Sep 2022, 10:02 am by Rick Garnett
"  So, (a) the popular vote is legally irrelevant; (b) Justices Breyer and Ginsburg were nominated by a president who did not win the popular vote (but one feels confident the author does not hold that against them); (c) Justice Scalia was nominated by a president who won one of the biggest landslides ever (but one feels confident the author does not credit the late justice with that); and (d) in fact, Justices Thomas, Alito, and Roberts were nominated by… [read post]
30 Aug 2022, 1:55 am by Kyle Hulehan
Key Findings 100 percent bonus depreciation allows firms an immediate tax deduction for investments in qualifying short-lived assets. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The memo says no potential instances of obstruction of justice by Trump that were cited by special counsel Robert Mueller III’s “would warrant a prosecution for obstruction of justice,” regardless of whether the person being investigated was a sitting president. [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Today’s justices make generous use of legal canons—those old principles of interpretation that come from Roman law and are often, perhaps surprisingly, shared with Islamic law.[15]After Karl Llewelyn excoriated the use of these legal canons to interpret statutes as incoherent over half a century ago, Justice Scalia and his textualist colleagues (and disciples) rehabilitated them.[16]They are now favored tools for Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Roberts, and… [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”[5][6] Justice Thomas’s plurality opinion in Mitchell v. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 1:54 am by INFORRM
Media Law in Other Jurisdictions Australia Lawyers for former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, accused of committing war crimes and murder in Afghanistan, have told the federal court that the allegations are “a nonsense and … an embarrassment … based on conjecture, speculation and imprecise testimony,” as his long-running defamation trial enters its final phase. [read post]
Turning to the terms of the FTC Act, modern statutory interpretation takes a far different approach than the court in National Petroleum Refiners, which discounted the significance of Section 5’s enumeration of adjudication as the means for restraining UMC and UDAP, reasoning that Section 5(b) did not use limiting language and that Section 6(g) provides a source of substantive rulemaking authority. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 5:01 am by Peter Margulies
Justice Samuel Alito filed a dissent on procedure and the merits, joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 10:13 am by Amy Howe
Indeed, Roberts observed, every presidential administration has interpreted Section 1225(b)(2)(C) as discretionary. [read post]
29 Jun 2022, 11:24 pm by Jon L. Gelman
(b) Congress’ power to build and maintain the Armed Forces fits PennEast’s test, as the Constitution’s text, its history, and this Court’s precedents show. [read post]