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Salmonella in Poultry: Tackling an Age-Old Issue in an Evolving Era of Agency Scrutiny

The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo marks the end of Chevron deference and fundamentally reshapes the administrative law landscape. In its wake, agencies must now defend regulatory action without the benefit of the judiciary’s longstanding presumption in favor of that agency’s statutory interpretations.

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How the Roberts Court Killed Originalism

Although there are at least five justices who identify as originalists on the Roberts Court, none of them exercise judicial review in an originalist manner, and the Roberts Court as an institution is no less or more originalist than previous Supreme Courts. The important difference between the Roberts Court and

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The Federal Death Penalty as a Sign of the Times

Scholars have been predicting the demise of the American death penalty for much of the twenty-first century. This prediction finds support in state-by-state abolition, reduced numbers of new death sentences, and continued reductions in the death row population. Despite significant movement away from the death penalty, the

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Just Like Us: MDL Is Eating Weedkiller

The ingestion of an herbicide called glyphosate is currently unavoidable in America. It is the main ingredient of a consumer product called Roundup. People who regularly used Roundup have brought civil lawsuits against its manufacturer, Monsanto (now owned by Bayer), claiming Roundup caused their cancer diagnoses. Juries, particularly those in

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White Rabbit Bankruptcy Appeals: The (Unconstitutional) Jurisdictional Significance of Being Late

Unlike ordinary civil litigation, which usually allows thirty days to appeal, appeals from bankruptcy court usually allow only fourteen. Adding to that difference, bankruptcy cases can have many appealable final decisions instead of just one. But what happens if an appeal is filed late? In ordinary civil litigation, that usually

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