…guilty in criminal court to multiple felonies for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and conspiracy to violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute. DOJ’s…

…phrase used in the advisory opinion statute). The Commission has plenty of reasons to be concerned that the network transformation will indeed change the nature of postal services. For example, the…

…Such was widely anticipated. The Biden administration may have wanted to avoid the appearance of  Medicare cuts in an election year. The Advance Notice includes some important provisions, while leaving out other…

…year that several of the DFA initiatives met the statutory requirement for an advisory opinion, but the statute (39 U.S. Code § 3661) is crafted in such a way that…

…the Appropriations Clause, an appropriation is simply a law that authorizes expenditures from a specified source of public money for designated purposes. The statute that provides the bureau’s funding meets…

…1789, had been passed by Congress followed by the Duties on Tonnage statute on July 20. Mainly, they provided operating revenue for the government. From 1816 they were designed with…

…ambiguity is not a delegation to anybody, and a court is not somehow relieved of its obligation to independently interpret the statute.” So suddenly, Roberts and the justices are the…

…important principle of law that governed the nation until Friday: When a federal statute is ambiguous, courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of it. Why? Congress delegates countless…

…statute granting CFPB its authority, the Court found that the agency could continue to exercise its authority under a Director that was removable at the President’s discretion. Again in its…

…the federal bank robbery statute. This matters because the penalty is greater when a dangerous weapon is used to commit a bank robbery. Justice Stevens, writing for a unanimous Court,…