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Whether Congress’s twenty-five year extension of the Voting Rights Act exceeded its power to enforce the protections of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
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federalism
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As Ohio’s chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General (the “OAG”) is charged with collecting debts owed to state entities under Ohio law. Gillie v. Law Office of Eric A. Jones, LLC, 37 F. Supp. 3d 928, 931 (S.D. Ohio 2014). The OAG “may appoint...
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Consolidated with Horne v. Flores (Docket No. 08-289).
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Petitioner Sprint Communications Company, L.P. (“Sprint”) connected Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) calls from Sprint’s to Windstream’s customers.Sprint Commc’n. Co., L.P. v. Jacobs, et al., 690 F.3d 864, 866 (8th Cir. 2012). Windstream...
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Does the National Voter Registration Act preempt state law to the level that lower courts should afford Congress greater deference under the Elections Clause?
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FactsArizona voters passed a state initiative, Proposition 200, on...
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Oral argument: Dec. 2, 2009
Appealed from: Florida Supreme Court (Sept. 29, 2008)
TAKINGS CLAUSE, JUDICIAL TAKINGS, ACCRETION, COASTAL PROPERTY, FEDERALISMIn order to combat beach erosion, the Florida Legislature passed the Beach and Shore...
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In 2011, John Sturgeon was moose hunting in Alaska when the National Park Service (“NPS”) informed him that he could not use his hovercraft on the Nation River within the Yukon-Charley preservation. Sturgeon v. Masica, No. 3:11-cv-0183-HRH, 2013 WL...
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On March 18, 1938, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado signed the Rio Grande Compact (the “Compact”). Complaint at 2, Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado, (2013). The Compact resulted from a period of controversy among the states, in the early twentieth...
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In 2011, the Ohio National Guard (“the Guard”) signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement (“CBA”) with the American Federation of Government Employees (“the Union”), the union that represents the Guard’s technicians. The Ohio Adjutant General’s Dept., et...
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This consolidated action addresses whether the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to enact 18 U.S.C. § 4248. See U.S. v. Comstock, 551 F.3d 274, 275–76 (4th Cir. 2009). Congress enacted § 4248 as part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and...