Supreme Court approves med mal fee waiver form: justices approve rule change, but decline to address whether fee limits can be waived.Blankenship, Gary
The decision also comes after theEPA was backed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in April, with the court throwing out a legal challenge against the waiver from a group of 17 Republican-run states. In that appeal, backers also argued that California’s ability to...
Supreme Court ruling on Union fee waiver. A union's waiver of initiation fees for workers who signed authorization cards prior to an election justified an employer's subsequent refusal to bargain. In so ruling, the...
CO. Opinion of the Court As the use of the corporate form proliferated in the 19th century, the question arose how to adapt the traditional rule about transitory actions for individuals to artificial persons created by law. Unsurprisingly, corporations did not relish the prospect of being haled ...
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus DEMORE, DISTRICT DIRECTOR, SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALI- ZATION SERVICE, ET AL. v. KIM CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 01–1491. Argued January 15, 2003—Decided April 29, 2003 Under...
v. Imburgia et al., the Supreme Court bolstered the preemptive power of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), once again overturning a state court’s holding that an arbitration agreement was unenforceable due to the alleged invalidity of a class action waiver under state law....
§ 2680(a) ("discretionary function" exception to Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA") waiver of sovereign immunity); 20 Boyle v. United Technologies Corp., 487 U.S. 500, 505 n.1 (1988) ("[T]he liability of independent contractors performing work for the Federal Government, like the ...
warnings and defendant signed a waiver form. Two Rutgers Police detectives subsequently conducted a video-taped interrogation. Prior to the interrogation, one of the detectives stated that she was aware defendant already spoke to the officers and stated, “[b]ut we just have to do it again.”...
Supreme Court to review an Environmental Protection Agency waiver of filtration requirements for the Catskill-Delaware water supply, the world's largest unfiltered water system (Coalition of Watershed Towns v. EPA, U.S., No. 08-1420, 5/14/09).rnThe towns seek reversal of a 2008 decision of...
clearly establishes that a motion to suppress would not have been successful even if timely filed. The officer's undisputed testimony on both occasions demonstrates that the defendant knowingly and voluntarily waived her rights prior to the interrogation. In fact, the executed waiver form was admitted...