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Amicus Curiae Brief — Edward G. McDonough, Petitioner v. Youel Smith, Individually and as Special District Attorney for the County of Rensselaer, New York, aka Trey Smith

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Apr 3, 2019

The Court ultimately resolved that confusion by identifying a single limitations period for each State—the period applicable to the State’s personal-injury torts—and applying that period to all 1983 claims … Wallace, 549 U.S. at 388 (quoting Bay Area Laundry and Dry Cleaning Pension Trust Fund v. Ferbar Corp. of Cal., 522 U.S. 192, 201 (1997) (brackets in original)).

Amicus Curiae Brief — Vacco v. Quill

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1997

The notion of “substantive due process,” as many distinguished commentators have pointed out, is an oxymoron — like “green pastel redness,” in the famous comment of John Hart Ely. … A40-A42; see also id. at A41 (“The Stoics glorified suicide as an act of pure rational will.”).

Amicus Curiae Brief — General Dynamics Corp. v. Trevino

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1989

Statutes Federal Tort Claims Act, TP OC. SHIP. … The Air Force’s later decisions regarding the equipment may constitute approval of reasonably precise specifications. Mem. Op. at 7.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2007

She can search out an explanation from the employer, evaluate it for pretext, and note any comments suggestive of stereotyping or bias. … Because these are discrete, self-contained acts, recovery is limited to the consequences of that act, which, by definition (assuming a timely charge), begin during the limitations period.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Petitioner v. American Humanist Association, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Jul 25, 2018

16 memorial crosses, and Gettysburg is home to two more; and military awards often use the image of a cross to recognize service, such as the Army’s Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, the Air … And just as courts should not act as “supervisors and censors of religious speech” in the context of religious invocations, 134 S.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Marek v. Chesny

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1985

"The purpose of Rule 68 is to encourage the settlement of litigation,” Delta Air Lines y. … Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) (1982).

Amicus Curiae Brief — First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc., Petitioner v. Jennifer Davenport, Attorney General of New Jersey

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Feb 24, 2025

Id. at 610 (cleaned up). III. The Experiences of Two Amici Bear This out. … New York Times, 376 U.S. at 271 (cleaned up).

Amicus Curiae Brief — Altera Corporation & Subsidiaries, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Mar 6, 2020

Kerska, Restoring the Lost Anti-Injunction Act, 103 Va. L. … Indeed, “scholars and commentators have complained for decades about Treasury’s weak record of compliance with the [Administrative Procedure Act (APA)].” Id. at 1714.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Carpenter v. Murphy, 139 S. Ct. 626 (2018) (No. 17-1107)

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2018

Bh IE cesecnscesccecceesecscccecscsecce 12 34 U.S.C. § 20929(a)(1 MA) .......... 0. cccce ees 12 Clean Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7601(d) ......... 23 Curtis Act, Act of June 28, 1898, ch. 517, I Tic … But the Curtis Act contained a separate agreement with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations that continued their govern- ments in effect for a period of eight years and superseded any inconsistent provisions

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

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2007

However, Section 7(a)(2) is clear on its face that it applies to any action “carried out” by a federal agency, even when that action is pursuant to a statute, like the Clean Water Act, that was enacted … Rather, “public comments ... prompt{ed] EPA to adopt” it. Jd. at 296.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Gilbert P. Hyatt, Petitioner v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Apr 6, 2026

United States, 523 US 224, 234 (1998) (cleaned up). 11 United States v. Johnson, 529 US 53, 58 (2000) (emphasis added). … Significantly, the Lanham Act contains no statutory limitation period equivalent to 35 U.S.C. § 286 restricting recovery of damages for infringement, and no statutory deadline for bringing infringement

Amicus Curiae Brief — Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2004

of 1947 FR ES dl eee 16 Texas Health Care Liability Act (THCLA), Tex. … Delta Air Lines, Inc., 463 U.S. 85, 90 (1983).

Amicus Curiae Brief — National Ass'n v. Defenders of Wildlife

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2007

Act. … These include the type of Clean Water Act (CWA) pérmits at issue in this case, which allow point-source dis- charges to the waters of the United States. See CWA § 402, 33 U.S.C. § 1342.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Krilich v. United States

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2003

United States Army Corps of Engineers (“SWANCC’”), 531 U.S. 159 (2001), holding that the Congressional intent of the Clean Water Act (CWA) forbade the Corps from asserting regulatory jurisdiction under … Section 404(a) of the Act (13 U.S.C. § 1344 (a)) over intrastate, isolated wetlands based upon the Migratory Bird Rule.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Harry C. Calcutt, III, Petitioner v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Feb 24, 2023

SEC Implied For-Cause Removal Protection and Its Implications, Yale Notice and Comment (June 24, 2022) ................. 16 Jeffrey M. … (cleaned up)). Lower courts should not be permitted to overread Collins to insulate Article II violations from judicial review. At the least, and irrespective of the question of remedy, Mr.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Petitioner v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Aug 10, 2022

See Hatch–Waxman Act, Pub. L. No. 98-417, 98 Stat. 1585 3 (1984). … Cir. 1999) (quoting Vornado Air Sys. v. Duracraft Corp., 58 F.3d 1498, 1507 (10th Cir. 1995)). SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare, LP v.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Ronald Cox, Petitioner v. Benjie Nobles, Deputy Warden, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Feb 16, 2022

OF LAW & INEQUALITY 507 (2015) ...................................... 29 Robertson, “A Clean Heart and an Empty Head: The Supreme Court and Sexual Terrorism in Prison,” 51 N.C. L. … The Prison Rape Elimination Act. In 2003, Congress enacted the Prison Rape Elimination Act, now codified at 34 U.S.C. §§ 30301, et seq. [“PREA”’].

Amicus Curiae Brief — Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et al., Petitioners v. Nebraska, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Feb 2, 2023

Air Regul. Grp. v. EPA, 573 U.S. 302 (2014) ...................................................................... 17 West Virginia v. EPA, 142 S. … The government argues that “historical data about borrowers who transitioned back to repayment after periods of forbearance, including after other emergencies,” showed that such borrowers are typically

Amicus Curiae Brief — City of Grants Pass, Oregon, Petitioner v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Mar 4, 2024

how free interaction among consumers, businesses, and voluntary associations is more effective than government action at providing the important results we all seek—good schools, quality health care, a clean … Amicus elaborates on and supplements those analyses with a survey of the many vagrancy laws that existed during the historically relevant time periods.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2005

In both Claiborne Hardware and the instant case the only evidence of violence refers to a few isolated acts of violence during a limited period in the long years under review. … See also Comments of [then Circuit Judge] Ruth Bader Ginsburg, New York University Law School, 1992.