With the new Trump administration, immigration has been in the national news. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have emphasized that the U.S. government will target “criminal ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard nine cases this month covering a vast field of federal law, from a dispute over Environmental Protection Agency discharge permits to the scope of a major antiracketeering ...

On Friday, May 19, 2017, a federal appellate court struck down an integral part of the FAA’s attempt to safely monitor and integrate small unmanned aerial systems (“sUAS”) into the national airspace.

Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC, Inc. established a two-step framework for courts to apply when reviewing an agency's construction of a statute, commonly known as "Chevron Deference." Since its decision ...

A coalition of federal judges has delivered over 250 injunctions nationwide against the Trump administration’s expansive ...

Rimini Street v Oracle USA, set for argument on January 14, is another one of those routine statutory interpretation cases that reach the Supreme Court’s docket not because they present deep ...

Unlike the relatively straightforward de novo standard of review of the legal determinations of a court, judicial review of an administrative agency's legal determinations is more complex, especially ...

I appreciate this opportunity to guest blog on the Volokh Conspiracy about my latest article, posted on SSRN a few weeks ago, entitled Ordinary Meaning as Last Resort: The Meaning of "Undue Hardship" ...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases on Monday: Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority and Rimini Street Inc. v. Oracle USA Inc. First of the day, Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority ...