Pereira v. Sessions is not the immigration case that everyone will be watching this month, but it is definitely worth a glance. At first blush, this case looks like a hyper-technical and relatively ...
The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the interpretation of a decades-old federal privacy statute that has found renewed relevance in the ...
On August 18, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court order adopting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) interpretation of the statute of ...
The interpretation of statutes is so often decisive in cases of national importance, which touch all our lives. Specifically, I want to talk with you about how courts are relinquishing the power to ...
"The legislative history strongly evinces the legislature's will to extinguish the authority of commissioners to award such benefits upon a claimant's having reached permanency status, [and] we concur ...
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in Pulsifer v. United States, one of the most important criminal law cases in recent memory. The issue in Pulsifer is very specific: the meaning of the ...
Eight justices sided with Wescley Fonseca Pereira in his argument that a government-issued document notifying him of the government’s intention to initiate removal proceedings against him did not stop ...
In a split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held an insurer's notice of cancellation of an insured's life insurance policy complied with a North Carolina statutory ...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a will provision leaving cash assets to the testator’s mother “if she survives me” lapsed when the mother predeceased her. Under the anti-lapse ...
Phil Washington, President Biden’s nominee to serve as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, faces a potential obstacle to his confirmation: Some members of Congress believe that he is ...
Both Blinken and the ASIL Task Force report acknowledged the long-standing position of the US government that personnel of non-party States to the Rome Statute of the ICC are not subject to the ...