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Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

Cannabis Rescheduling Update: DEA Announces Date for ALJ Hearing

On August 27, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has scheduled an ALJ hearing to consider briefs, evidence and witnesses from “interested parties” in connection with the DEA’s proposed rulemaking to reschedule...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Loper Bright, Jarkesy, and Implications for the SEC

“Chevron is overruled,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, because “[t]he deference that Chevron requires of courts reviewing agency action cannot be squared with the [Administrative...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

In Case You Missed It: Will The U.S. Supreme Court’s Jarkesy Decision Be A Game Changer For Administrative Law?

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In “Case” You Missed It is a new column by Balch & Bingham attorney Tripp DeMoss that briefly summarizes a recently issued decision by higher courts like the U.S. Supreme Court and Alabama Supreme Court in cases of interest...more

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Two U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Will Affect the Securities Industry

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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently issued two opinions that are likely to have a longer-term effect on the way securities industry matters are handled. Juries, not the Securities Exchange Commission...more

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SCOTUS 2023/24 Lookback and Preview: 8 Key Rulings that Impact the Workplace and 4 New Cases for Employers to Track Next Term

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The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more

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Challenging the FTC’s Constitutionality in the Aftermath of Jarkesy

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The Supreme Court on June 27 issued its opinion in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy in which it held that when the SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the Seventh Amendment...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Not So Fast:  D.C. Circuit Resists Invitation to Reject NLRB Deference

On July 5, 2024, in Hospital de la Concepcion v. NLRB, the D.C. Circuit was the first federal appeals court to weigh in on deference afforded to the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) in the wake of the landmark U.S....more

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[Webinar] Redefining Agency Power: The Impact of the Supreme Court’s Decisions in Jarkesy, Loper Bright, and Corner Post - July...

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Join attorneys in our appellate, energy regulatory, environmental, tax, securities, and employment practices who will explore how these landmark rulings affect administrative law and practice and what comes next....more

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Supreme Court’s 2024 Term Could Transform Labor and Employment Law

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At the end of its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down four decisions limiting the power of federal agencies. While none of those decisions involved a labor and employment agency, all of them could transform labor...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Two Blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court Decisions May Spell End of NLRB’s Expansion of Reach of NLRA as Well as How Agency Prosecutes...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two blockbuster decisions last week, both of which likely will curtail the ability of federal agencies, including the NLRB, to prosecute cases and expand the law. In a 6-3 decision announced...more

Maynard Nexsen

The Fundamentals of Administrative Review in South Carolina

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The litigation of disputes in the Administrative Law Court is unique in many ways from the other venues in which litigation occurs in South Carolina. The Administrative Law Court (ALC) falls under the Execute Branch of state...more

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How Administrative Law Became the Hottest Topic in Patent Disputes at the Federal Circuit

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What comes to mind when you think of “hot topics” in patent law? Subject matter eligibility? Obviousness? Damages? Quietly, administrative law has moved to the top of the list of issues that consume the attention of the Court...more

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Azar v. Allina Health Services: Making Waves in Medicare Claim Appeals?

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When ruling that notice-and-comment procedures may be required for Medicare guidance, the Supreme Court may not have foreseen the potential disruptive impact on Medicare coverage rules....more

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Supreme Court Places Another Limitation on Chevron Deference

The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States have again limited the reach of Chevron deference. On May 28, 2019, the Court in Smith v. Berryhill carved another exception into what has lately proven to be its...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Smith v. Berryhill

On May 28, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Smith v. Berryhill, holding a dismissal by the Social Security Administration’s Appeals Council on timeliness grounds after a claimant has had an administrative law judge...more

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Texas Supreme Court: State Agency Actions Affirmatively Misleading People about Procedural Rights Can Be a Violation of Due...

On May 3, 2019, the Texas Supreme Court issued a significant administrative law ruling in the case of Mosely v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission. ...more

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An Uneven Playing Field: Judicial Deference to State Tax Administrator Interpretations

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Judicial deference to state tax agencies puts taxpayers at a steep disadvantage and wastes time and resources on costly tax disputes. A united advocacy effort can help promote passage of state-level legislation that takes the...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

CPSC’s Zen Magnets Mandatory Recall Reversed: A Mixed District Court Decision Gives Zen Magnets a New Life and the CPSC Favorable...

The consumer product safety community is rarely provided guidance by federal court decisions. On Tuesday, however, Judge R. Brooke Jackson of the Federal District Court for the District of Colorado issued an opinion in the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Tenth Circuit Rules SEC Administrative Judges Are Unconstitutional, Setting Up Potential Supreme Court Review

The constitutionality of the SEC’s in-house administrative proceedings is in doubt following the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Bandimere v. SEC. In Bandimere, a three-judge panel held, by a 2-1 decision, that SEC...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Environmental Case Law Update

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” Many important environmental and administrative law decisions were reported by the federal and state courts over the past six months. The courts are dealing with very...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

DC Circuit: No Jurisdiction For Suits Re SEC Forum Selection Choice

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Suits challenging the SEC’s forum selection decisions continue to proliferate. As the trend has unfolded the Commission posted a memo on its website discussing the issue of forum selection and has proposed modifications to...more

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The NLRB Refuses to Require its General Counsel to Explain the Joint Employer Case Against McDonald's

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The National Labor Relations Board continues the string of controversial moves in its unfair labor practice cases against McDonald’s. In December 2014, the NLRB’s General Counsel filed thirteen complaints naming the...more

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PHH Wins Stay of $109M CFPB Enforcement Penalty

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On August 5, 2015, PHH Corp. (“PHH”) won a stay of the $109M penalty handed down by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) director Rich Cordray. Cordray’s aggressive legal reasoning and the harsh penalties he imposed,...more

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SEC Insider Trading Case Brought As Administrative Proceeding Enjoined

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The SEC’s shift to administrative proceedings in recent months has spawned a series of suits against the agency challenging its forum selection authority. The suits have generally met with little success. Nevertheless,...more

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