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  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Insurance Co. of North America v. Morton International, Inc.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1994

    The dispute in Morton arises under the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act of 1976, N.J.S.A. §§ 58:10-23.11 to -23.24 (1992) (“Spill Act’). 5 1. … Warwick Dyeing Corp., No. 93-1721 (1st Cir.); Downtown Air- park, Ine. v. Continental Ins.

    512 U.S. 1245
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Territory of Guam, Petitioner v. United States

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Mar 31, 2021

    Under Guam’s proposal, settling PRPs essentially can elect to trigger the contribution period at their option. … would have existed and Asarco would have had no basis on which to extend the limitations period.

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp, Petitioner v. Luke Davis, et al.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Mar 12, 2025

    . § 2072(b) .................................................... 13 Clean Air Act, Pub. L. … Chesapeake Bay Found., Inc., 484 U.S. 49, 65–66 (1987), superseded by statute on another ground, Clean Air Act, Pub. L. No. 101–549, 103 Stat. 2574.

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — National Small Business United, dba National Small Business Association, et al., Petitioners v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · May 21, 2026

    EPA, 598 U.S. 651, 679-80 (2023) (holding that “overly broad” reading of Clean Water Act would “impinge on” “traditional state authority” without clear statement). … These schemes feed on the Act’s confusion. Real people lose real money, and the States are left to clean it up. See, e.g., Letter from Josh McLeod, Fed. Gov’t Rels.

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC, Petitioner v. Food and Drug Administration

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Mar 11, 2024

    Agencies sometimes fail to give adequate notice by not complying with the APA’s notice-and-comment rulemaking process. … App. 23 (cleaned up). Rather, it concluded that “across * * * different device 13 types, the role of flavor is consistent.” Pet. App. 31 n.14 (cleaned up). This was another change in course.

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — West Virginia, et al., Petitioners v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Jan 25, 2022

    ......... 12 Act of Aug. 4, 1790, 1 Stat. 138 ................... 14 Act of Aug. 4, 1790, 1 Stat. 145 ................... 18 Act of Aug. 12, 1790, 1 Stat. 186 ................. 15 Act of Mar. 3 … Air Act, does not authorize the Clean Power Plan issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2015.

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Environmental Protection Agency v. Defenders of Wildlife

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2007

    STATEMENT OF THE CASE The Clean Water Act (CWA) limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to deny a State the ability to take over the Clean Water Act pollution permitting program … See Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C.

    549 U.S. 1105
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Laurel Zuckerman, as Ancillary Administratrix of the Estate of Alice Leffmann, Petitioner v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Feb 25, 2020

    Rather than adhere to the congressionally set limitations period contained in the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016, Pub. … And for this reason, the Second Circuit erred in finding that New York’s defense of laches was not preempted by the HEAR Act’s clear expression of a limitations period.

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Rapanos v. United States

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2005

    INTERESTS OF AMICI CURIAE The Government’s assertion that the term “waters of the United States,” under the Clean Water Act (CWA or Act), extends to all geographic features that have a hydrological … Research Serv., Legislative History of the Clean Water Act, at 1698 (1973).

    546 U.S. 932
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Office of Personnel Management, et al., Applicants v. American Federation of Government Employees, et al.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Apr 3, 2025

    Local and state personnel are “NWS Core partners.” 15 U.S.C. § 8521(d). 10 to provide “technical assistance to municipalities” concerning the Clean Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 4370j(b), and EPA directs the … Ombuds to serve more generally as a “resource to assist municipalities in navigating EPA’s Clean Water Act programs.” 11 EPA staff, sometimes together with FEMA staff, interact with state and local officials

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Commissioner v. Banks

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2005

    See, e.g., the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7604(d); the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. … § 1365; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. §6972(e); the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C.

    543 U.S. 426
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Rapanos v. United States

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2006

    In addition to inviting public comment on a proposed rule, the news release also highlighted the * See also, Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making on the Clean Water Act Regulatory Definition of “ … This is evident with two failed attempts by Con- gress to enact versions of the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act (“CWARA”) in 2002 and 2003.

    547 U.S. 715
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC, Petitioner v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Feb 29, 2024

    on any other conceivable account should be held unconstitutional. … Even Justice Douglas, one of the fathers of the administrative state, came to criticize excessive congressional delegations in the period … When addressing the phrase “appropriate and necessary” in the Clean Air Act, the Supreme Court explained that “[o]ne does not need to open up a dictionary in order to realize the capaciousness of this

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2010

    Arizona's Citizens Clean Elections Act. In the wake of numerous political scandals, the people of Arizona adopted the Citizens Clean Elec- tions Act in 1998 by statewide referendum. Ariz. Rev. … The Act’s stated pur- pose is “to create a clean elections system that will improve the integrity of Arizona state govern- ment... .” Jd. § 16-940.

    562 U.S. 1060
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Safehouse, Petitioner v. Department of Justice, et al.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Sep 17, 2021

    . § 856 ............................................. 3, 10 Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (PROTECT Act), Pub. L. … This would have accounted for between 6 percent and 37 percent of the overdose fatalities in the neighborhood during that period.34 Also, compared to the period before Insite’s opening, Vancouver experienced

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Israel Alvarado, et al., Petitioners v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al.

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Feb 2, 2024

    If they acted too harshly, they might endanger civil liberties; if they did not act harshly, they wrongly feared they might endanger the lives of many, and 2 President Joseph Biden, "Biden Says COVID- … Award, and even though during this period he had served as the Wing Chaplain for an Air Expeditionary Wing during a seven-month deployment to an undisclosed location in SW Asia.

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Swierkiewicz v. Sorema NA

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2002

    United Air Lines, Inc., 216 F.3d 1111 Ey TIE ETE ntictrenactinceteneenesntesvecemadincsenmnienptantiienmmedls 9 Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc., 527 U.S. 471 (1999).... 10-13 TRW Inc. v. … United Air Lines, Inc., 216 F.3d 1111, 1114-16 (D.C.

    534 U.S. 506
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — American Petroleum Institute, et al., Petitioners v. Minnesota

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Sep 21, 2023

    Schwartz & Cary Silverman, Common-Sense Construction of Consumer Protection Acts, 54 Kan. L. Rev. 1, 6 (2005). … While the Minnesota Consumer Fraud Act, relied upon in this instance, does not codify such an exemption, a presumption that the Act does not apply to conduct beyond Minnesota should preclude claims premised

  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2001

    No. 102-166, ee ee ae 449 § 118, 105 Stat. 1081 23 Pt. 1 (1991) ee N Clayton Act § 7, 15 U.S.C. 18 16, 17 Pt. 2 (1991) Clean Air Act § 307 ), 42 U.S.C. 7807) oo. 26 LR. … In Harrison, the Court was asked to apply ejusdem generis to limit the term “any other final action,” as it appeared in an extensive list of administrative orders in Section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air

    532 U.S. 105
  • Amicus Curiae Brief — Friends of the Everglades v. South Florida Water Management District

    Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2010

    Colorado has classified Shadow Mountain Reservoir as an jmpaired water body pursuant to Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1313(d), due to its low concen- trations of dissolved oxygen … The Eleventh Circuit’s construction of the Clean Water Act immun- ized an entire, significant class of discharges from regulation under the NPDES program in the absence of any evidence that Congress

    562 U.S. 1082

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