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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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Similar Language But a Different Outcome: Medicare DSH Payments after Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy

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Hospitals that serve a high number of indigent patients are faced with a dilemma: they must provide high-quality care but fixed Medicare reimbursement rates often do not take into account the higher operating costs that they...more

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San Francisco v. EPA: Supreme Court Decides Clean Water Act Permits May Not Include Receiving Water Limits

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In City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, 604 U.S. ___, 145 S. Ct. 704 (2025), in a 5-4 decision issued on March 4, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down two provisions in San...more

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U.S. Supreme Court receives cert petition regarding CFPB’s payday lending rule

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On March 7, a cert petition was filed at the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on the CFPB’s payday lending rule. The petitioner, a financial services trade...more

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In Yet Another Decision Restricting EPA Authority, US Supreme Court Holds EPA Cannot Set CWA Permit Limits

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The US Supreme Court held in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA that the US Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority under the Clean Water Act to include “end-result” limitations in National Pollutant Discharge...more

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Textualism Is More Than Dictionaries: The Supreme Court's Latest Clean Water Act Decision Looks to History and Context

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When it rains too much in San Francisco, the city's wastewater treatment plant can get overloaded. An overloaded wastewater treatment plant means that a city-operated, EPA-permitted point source in the Pacific Ocean could...more

McGlinchey Stafford

SCOTUS Rolls Back EPA’s Permitting Authority under the CWA

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On March 4, 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, limiting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s permitting authority under...more

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A Divided SCOTUS Invalidates Common Provisions of Clean Water Act Permits

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In the US Supreme Court’s first post-Chevron decision involving the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Supreme Court found against EPA, invalidating ‘end result’ NPDES permit requirements....more

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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Nuclear Waste Storage Cases

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The U.S. Supreme Court on March 5, 2025, heard oral argument in two cases related to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) authority to license temporary spent fuel storage facilities that are not co-located with a...more

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Old Days – Memories of Equity Split Dollar in the Post-Loper Bright Era

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This article focuses on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. (2024) and how it might apply to Split Dollar life insurance and possibly resurrect one of my favorite life...more

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City and County of San Francisco vs. EPA: Implications for Clean Water Act Permittees

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On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the case City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, in which it held that “end-result” requirements routinely imposed by the U.S....more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: US Supreme Court Rules Against EPA in Clean Water Act Permitting Dispute

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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the City and County of San Francisco in a case against the US Environmental Protection Agency involving the scope of the Clean Water Act. See City & Cty. of San Francisco v. Environmental...more

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Supreme Court Decides City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection Agency

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On March 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court decided City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 23-753, holding that Section 1311(b)(1)(A) of the Clean Water Act does not authorize the...more

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The Sole Meaning of “Solely”: Supreme Court Denies Certiorari on Edward Life Sciences v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. and Permits...

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This month the Supreme Court denied certiorari on Edwards Lifesciences Corp. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., and in doing so, seemingly indicated its support for a broad interpretation of the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor...more

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Another Twist for the Ongoing Corporate Transparency Act Saga: The Supreme Court Provides a Lifeline

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On Thursday, January 23, 2025, in an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed one of the two nationwide injunctions of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) pending the conclusion of the Fifth Circuit appeal and any...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

The sky is not falling

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This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Chevron deference in a 6–3 decision, holding that “Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.” As...more

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The Artificial Intelligence Angle: Loper Bright’s Impact on Federal and State AI Legislation, Regulations, and Guidance

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This summer, the Supreme Court made waves with its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Decided on June 28, 2024, the case overturned Chevron deference, a decades-long cornerstone of administrative law. Loper...more

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In Rawat, DC Circuit construes the Code and regulations without deference, providing an example of statutory and regulatory...

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On July 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Court of Appeals) released a decision in Rawat v. Commissioner (available here). The case considers whether the portion of a non-US...more

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The Potential Impact of SCOTUS' Chevron Decision on Privacy Regulations

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Given the inability of the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law (such as the proposed and likely dead-on-arrival APRA), the United States continues to be left with a patchwork of sector-specific laws and a...more

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U.S. Supreme Court May Soon Discard or Modify Chevron Deference

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For nearly 40 years and in more than 18,000 judicial opinions, federal courts have used the Chevron doctrine to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Under the doctrine, named for the 1984...more

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Oral Arguments Signal Sea of Change in Future of Administrative Law

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On Jan. 17, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two cases widely seen as vehicles for the current court to overturn the judicial doctrine of Chevron deference: Relentless v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright...more

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SCOTUS holds oral argument in two cases challenging Chevron deference

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On January 17, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the two cases in which the question presented is whether the Court should overrule its 1984 decision in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council, Inc. ...more

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