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U.S. Supreme Court Ends Youth Climate Change Suit

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On March 24, in Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana et al. v. United States of America et al., the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition to hear an appeal from Our Children’s Trust from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision...more

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Ninth Circuit: No Injury to Creditors Required for Avoidance of Intentionally Fraudulent Transfer

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To assist a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") in maximizing the value of the bankruptcy estate for the benefit of all stakeholders, the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a trustee or DIP to avoid certain...more

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Everyone Please Stand: Supreme Court to Consider Standing Requirements for Class Actions, With the Potential to Resolve...

On January 24, 2024, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Laboratory Corp. of America v. Davis (“LabCorp”),[1] to consider “[w]hether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure...more

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Reese v. ATF: Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Handgun Purchase Ban for 18-to-20-Year-Olds

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On January 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a landmark opinion in Reese v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), holding that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(b)(1) and (c)(1), which...more

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Supreme Court to Address Article III Standing Problems in Class Actions - Again

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On January 24, 2025, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of Laboratory Corp. of America v. Davis, No. 24-0304, to decide “[w]hether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil...more

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Supreme Court to Decide Key Question of Whether Rule 23(b)(3) Class May Be Certified if Some Proposed Class Members Lack any...

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, No. 24-304, to decide “[w]hether a federal court may certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil...more

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Court grants partial injunction for National Banks and Federal Savings Associations in the lawsuit challenging the Illinois...

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In a 37 page order, Chief Judge Virginia M. Kendall in the Northern District of Illinois determined that the Illinois Bankers Association, American Bankers Association, America’s Credit Unions, and Illinois Credit Union...more

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Dealer Group Sues FTC to Enjoin Administrative Proceeding Over Alleged Junk Fees and Discriminatory Lending Practices - Seyfarth's...

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On October 4, 2024, Asbury Automotive Group, a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest automobile dealer groups in the United States, sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enjoin as unconstitutional the FTC’s...more

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Two Down, 12 to Go, and Two More Decision Days This Week - SCOTUS Today

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The Supreme Court started yesterday with 14 decisions yet to deliver and only reduced the number by two—neither of them the Trump immunity case nor the Loper case concerning the future of the agency deference doctrine of...more

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Constitutional Standing Not Required for 337 Investigations

While a complainant does not need to have constitutional standing to bring a complaint in the International Trade Commission (ITC), at least one complainant must be the owner or exclusive licensee of the underlying asserted...more

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Lawsuit Highlights the Complexity of Regulating the Intrastate Use of Marijuana

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One of the most interesting aspects of marijuana law and policy in the U.S. is its tendency to strike at our most foundational democratic principles. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Gonzales v. Raich, that Congress...more

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The Assault on the SEC’s Administrative Citadel Continues

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A panel of the D.C. Circuit recently relied on Lucia and Cochran to enjoin a FINRA regulatory enforcement action pending appeal of an Appointments Clause challenge....more

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CFPB files opposition to preliminary injunction motion in lawsuit challenging Section 1071 final rule

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The CFPB has filed its opposition to the motion seeking a preliminary injunction filed by the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging the validity of the CFPB’s final rule implementing Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act (Rule)....more

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Axon, Gibson, Jarkesy: Continuing Challenges to SEC’s Administrative Citadel

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a procedural decision that has the potential to dismantle the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to litigate cases administratively. On April 14, 2023, the Supreme...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions

As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more

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The SEC’s Administrative Law Judges Under Fire

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In addition to creating rules that govern both private and public companies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) uses an in-house, government legal system—Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)—to prosecute securities...more

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Law of the Land - Real Estate Litigation Newsletter - March 2022, Volume I, Issue XII

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CASES OF NOTE - SIMILAR PROJECTS, DIFFERENT DECISIONS - Brossi, et al. v. Town of Grafton Planning Board, et al., No. 19 MISC 000551 (MDV), 2021 WL 5833935 (Mass. Land Ct. Dec. 9, 2021) - The Massachusetts Land...more

Pullman & Comley - School Law

Court Upholds Law Ending the Religious Exemption to Immunizations for Students in Connecticut Schools

Connecticut law has required public and private schools to condition a student’s entry into school upon providing proof of immunizations against certain communicable diseases (including but not limited to diphtheria,...more

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Job-Seeking Posers Found to Have Standing to Challenge “Unauthorized Access” Statute

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Activists have standing to challenge a state law that prohibits unauthorized access to businesses for the purpose of sending undercover informants to apply for jobs, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at The Ninth: Contractor Speech and Seized Cars

This week, the Court confronted constitutional challenges to a California statute altering the test for determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors and an Arizona statute governing civil forfeitures. ...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Board of Directors Quota Law May Be Unconstitutional

Meland v. Weber, ___ F.3d ___, 2021 WL 2521615 (9th Cir. 2021) In 2018, the California Legislature enacted Senate Bill 826, which requires all corporations headquartered in California to have a minimum number of females on...more

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TCPA Plaintiff Argues he wasn’t Injured in Attempt to Dodge Federal Jurisdiction

Usually, it is the plaintiff that argues he or she was injured, not the defendant. But, in an effort to stay in state court, some TCPA plaintiffs have taken the counterintuitive position that they did not suffer an injury in...more

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The Supreme Court Wrestles (Again) With the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the most recent challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The case has the potential to invalidate the entire law. While the Court’s decision isn’t expected...more

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The Supreme Court - March 2, 2020

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This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the following cases: California v. Texas, No. 19-840; Texas v. California, No. 19-1019: A petition for a writ of certiorari and conditional...more

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Climate Change Class Action Dismissed as Non-Justiciable

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After much legal wrangling since the claim was launched against the U.S. federal government and the Office of the President of the United States in 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently dismissed the...more

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