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Agency power, judicial review, rulemaking, enforcement, and statutory authority cases.

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62 casesUpdated Jul 29, 2026

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11 cases

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25-1325

Oklahoma, et al., Petitioners v. United States, et al.

Whether the Act’s delegation of law-enforcement and rulemaking power to the private Authority violates the Constitution’s private non-delegation doctr...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

Docket

25-579

Department of the Air Force, et al., Petitioners v. Prutehi Guahan

1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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25-1144

Daisey Trust, By and Through Its Trustee Eddie Haddad, et al., Petitioners v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al.

1. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, 601 U.S. 416 (2024) (“CFPB”), this Court u...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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25-1370

Samreen Farid Riaz, Petitioner v. Dental Board of California

1. Did the Supreme court of California in error, abuse discretion and show bias denying Petition (S293171) on Dec 10 25 and left unresolved conflicted...

TrackingOT 2025
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Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate DistrictOpen

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25-7650

William Peterman, Jr., Petitioner v. The Maple Press Company

1. Whether the authority of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 serves the unknown class; enforceable c? by demonstration of no difference to protected class...

TrackingOT 2025
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Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg OfficeOpen

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25-1403

Lina Noland, et al., Petitioners v. Federal Trade Commission

1. Whether, after AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Federal Trade Commission may preserve an ex parte S...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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25-7519

Fousseini Tounkara, Petitioner v. James Macy, Director, Office of Worker's Compensation Programs, et al.

1. Whether a reviewing court may uphold an Administrative Law Judge's adverse credibility determination in a Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensatio...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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25-7384

Sualeh Kamal Ashraf, Petitioner v. Drug Enforcement Administration

1. Whether, after Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450 (2022), the Controlled Substances Act permits the Drug Enforcement Administration to revoke a ph...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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25-7612

Diana Zuniga Kammunkun, Petitioner v. Department of Defense

1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process permits an agency official to materially revise investigative findings after the investigati...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal CircuitOpen

Docket

25-1230

Google LLC, Petitioner v. VirtaMove, Corp., et al.

1. Whether the PTO retains statutory authority to deny institution based on the “settled expectations” factor, where discretion is committed to the PT...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal CircuitOpen

Docket

25-1423

Mark Geraghty Wonders, Petitioner v. Office of the Army General Counsel

1. Did the Agency violate the law by disregarding a judge ’ s order and release only one of two legal reviews to the Petitioner in a security clearanc...

TrackingOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

Recent decisions

49 cases

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25-406

Federal Communications Commission, et al., Petitioners v. AT&T, Inc.

Are provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 that govern the Federal Communications Commission’s assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeiture...

TrackingAdministrative LawOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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25-466

Ongkaruck Sripetch, Petitioner v. Securities and Exchange Commission

May the SEC seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. §§ 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm?

TrackingAdministrative LawOT 2025
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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25-332

Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Petitioners v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, et al.

This case examines whether the President has the authority to fire a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner at will, despite federal laws that on...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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21-972

Buffington v. McDonough

This case is about a veteran whose disability compensation stopped when he returned to active duty and who later sought to restart those benefits afte...

DetailedOT 2021
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal CircuitOpen

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21-379

Texas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

This case challenges the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that health plans cover certain preventive services without cost-sharing when those service...

DetailedOT 2021
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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20-979

Patel v. Garland

This case is about whether federal courts can review an immigration agency’s factual finding that a noncitizen is ineligible to seek lawful permanent ...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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20-7622

Denezpi v. United States

This case asked whether the federal government violated the Double Jeopardy Clause by prosecuting Merle Denezpi in federal court after he had already ...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

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20-827

United States v. Zubaydah

This case was about whether Abu Zubaydah could obtain testimony from former CIA contractors for use in a Polish investigation into his alleged mistrea...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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20-297

TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez

This case asked whether people may recover damages in federal court under the Fair Credit Reporting Act when a credit reporting agency incorrectly lab...

DetailedOT 2020
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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19-7

Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

This case arose when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tried to enforce an investigative demand against Seila Law, and Seila Law argued that th...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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19-547

United States Fish and Wildlife Ser v. v. Sierra Club, Inc.

This case asked whether draft biological opinions prepared by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service during consultat...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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19-422

Collins v. Yellen

This case arose from shareholders’ challenge to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s handling of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while they were in federal...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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19-402

Baldwin v. United States

This case asks whether a federal agency can adopt a new interpretation of an ambiguous statute that overrides an earlier interpretation by a federal c...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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19-296

Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

This case challenges the ATF’s rule treating bump stocks as machineguns under federal law, which effectively bans them. The petition asks how courts s...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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19-199

Salinas v. Railroad Retirement Bd.

This case asked whether a federal court can review the Railroad Retirement Board’s refusal to reopen an earlier denial of disability benefits. Manfred...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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19-1442

Carr v. Saul

This case asked whether people seeking Social Security disability benefits can challenge the constitutional appointment of the administrative law judg...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

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19-1231

FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project

This case was about the FCC’s decision to repeal or loosen several long-standing media ownership rules that limited common ownership of newspapers, ra...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitOpen

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19-123

Fulton v. Philadelphia

Philadelphia stopped working with Catholic Social Services in its foster-care program because the agency, for religious reasons, would not certify sam...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitOpen

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19-1155

Garland v. Ming Dai

This immigration case concerned whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly treated Ming Dai’s asylum testimony as automatically credible and true because the i...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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17-1484

Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Petitioner v. Allina Health Services, et al.

1. WHETHER 42 U.S.C. §1395hh(a)(2) or §1395hh(a)(4) REQUIRED THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO CONDUCT NOTICE-AND-COMMENT RULEMAKING BEFO...

TrackingOT 2018
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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17-1606

Smith v. Berryhill

This case asked whether a Social Security disability claimant can go to federal court after the Social Security Appeals Council refuses to review the ...

DetailedOT 2018
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

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18-1432

Nasrallah v. Barr

This case asked whether federal appeals courts may review the facts behind an immigration agency’s denial of protection under the Convention Against T...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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17-801

In Re United States

The case grew out of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s decision to end DACA. The Supreme Court addressed whether lower courts could forc...

DetailedOT 2017
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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18-1023

Maine Community Health Options v. United States

This case was about whether the federal government had to pay health insurers money they were owed under the Affordable Care Act’s temporary Risk Corr...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal CircuitOpen

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18-801

Peter v. NantKwest, Inc.

This case asked whether a patent applicant who sues the Patent and Trademark Office in federal district court after losing before the agency must also...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal CircuitOpen

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18-966

Department of Commerce v. New York

This case concerned the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. States and local governments challenged the ...

DetailedOT 2018
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitOpen

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18-406

Aaron J. Schock, Petitioner v. United States

Whether the Constitution's Rulemaking Clause and Speech and Debate Clause protect him from criminal charges based on internal House communications?

TrackingOT 2018
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United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitOpen

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20-1530

West Virginia v. EPA

This case examines whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by manda...

DetailedOT 2021
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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21-1271

Moore v. Harper

North Carolina legislators argued the Elections Clause gives state legislatures exclusive authority over rules for congressional elections. The Court ...

DetailedAdministrative LawOT 2022
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Supreme Court of North CarolinaOpen

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22-451

Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

Commercial fishing companies challenged a federal rule requiring them to help fund onboard monitoring, using the case to attack Chevron deference. The...

DetailedAdministrative LawOT 2023
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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22-1008

Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Court addressed Florida and Texas laws regulating social media platforms but remanded both cases for further analysis. The Court provided guidance...

DetailedFirst AmendmentOT 2023
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

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19-835

Valero Energy Corp. v. Envtl. Prot. Agency

This case involves a dispute between Valero Energy Corporation and the Environmental Protection Agency regarding environmental regulations. The Suprem...

DetailedOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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19-7867

Mims v. Ill. Health & Family Servs.

This case involves a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by an individual seeking review of a decision by the Supreme Court of Illinois regarding ...

DetailedOT 2019
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Supreme Court of IllinoisOpen

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22-714

Calcutt v. FDIC

The Supreme Court ruled that when a federal agency makes a legal error, an appeals court must send the case back to the agency rather than reviewing t...

DetailedOT 2022
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth CircuitOpen

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19-819

Procopio v. Wilkie

Whether the “pro-veteran canon”—which requires that “interpretive doubt [be] resolved in the veteran’s favor,” Brown v. Gardner, 513 U.S. 115, 118 (19...

TrackingOT 2019
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal CircuitOpen

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23-719

Trump v. Anderson

The Court unanimously reversed Colorado's decision excluding Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. It held that states ma...

DetailedAdministrative LawOT 2023
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Colorado Supreme CourtOpen

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22-1219

Relentless, Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce

This case challenged a federal regulation requiring herring fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors, but ultimately served as the vehicle for the Supreme...

DetailedOT 2023
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United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitOpen

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22-506

Biden v. Nebraska

The Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create websites celebrating same-sex marriages when doin...

DetailedFirst AmendmentOT 2022
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitOpen

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22-666

Situ Kamu Wilkinson, Petitioner v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General

The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have the jurisdiction to review an immigration agency's determination that a noncitizen's removal would no...

DetailedOT 2023
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United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitOpen

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23-1300

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al., Petitioners v. Texas, et al.

The Supreme Court ruled that only parties who formally intervened in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing proceedings can challenge its final...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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23-753

City and County of San Francisco, California, Petitioner v. Environmental Protection Agency

The Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act does not authorize the EPA to include generic "end-result" provisions in wastewater discharge permits...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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24-354

Federal Communications Commission, et al., Petitioners v. Consumers' Research, et al.

The Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not violate the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the FCC to collect contributions for the Universal Ser...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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23-583

Amina Bouarfa, Petitioner v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.

The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts lack jurisdiction to review the Department of Homeland Security's decision to revoke a previously approved...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitOpen

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23-1038

Food and Drug Administration, Petitioner v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al.

The Supreme Court ruled that the FDA did not act arbitrarily or capriciously when it denied applications to market flavored e-cigarette products, find...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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23-975

Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al., Petitioners v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al.

This case addressed whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to evaluate environmental impacts, such as upstream oil dr...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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23-1226

McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc., Petitioner v. McKesson Corporation, et al.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Hobbs Act does not require federal district courts to automatically accept the Federal Communication Commission's leg...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOpen

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23-1229

Environmental Protection Agency, Petitioner v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al.

This case concerns the proper venue for small oil refineries to challenge the EPA's denial of their hardship exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standa...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitOpen

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23-1067

Oklahoma, et al., Petitioners v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.

This case addresses whether challenges to the EPA's rejection of state air quality plans must be heard exclusively in the D.C. Circuit Court or in reg...

DetailedOT 2024
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United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitOpen

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23A349

Ohio, et al., Applicants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency's "Good Neighbor Plan," which aimed to reduce ozone pollution crossing state...

DetailedOT 2023
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitOpen

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