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Oregon Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision Mandating Major ...


Oregon Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision Mandating Major ...

“The Oregon Supreme Court has issued a ground-breaking decision improving the way courts deal with eyewitness identification evidence that ...

How a Supreme Court decision could reignite Oregon's biggest ...

Since the Pacific Northwest's “timber wars” of the 1990s, the federal Northwest Forest Plan has managed conservation and logging interests ...

Justices schedule major cases on deference to federal agencies

That doctrine, known as the Chevron doctrine, has been the target of criticism by (among others) some Supreme Court justices in recent years, ...

Disability Rights Oregon Signs Amicus Brief in Landmark Supreme ...

DRO joins members of Congress, law enforcement, faith-based groups, medical professionals, and academic leaders to urge an end to the ...

The Supreme Court limited federal power. Health care is feeling ...

The decision on the authority of federal agencies could affect rules on anything from drug safety to nursing home care ...

23-175 City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (06/28/2024) - Supreme Court

Grants Pass, Oregon, is home to roughly 38,000 people, about 600 of whom are estimated to experience homelessness on a given day. Like many ...

Oregon v. Mitchell - Ballotpedia

Congress passed the Voting Rights Act Amendments in 1970 which lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18, prohibited the use of literacy tests in elections ...

Oregon Supreme Court Strikes Down Nonunanimous Jury Verdicts

Louisiana, which held that the Sixth Amendment requires unanimous jury verdicts in felony cases. Ramos vacated more than 470 convictions in ...

National Alliance to End Homelessness Statement on Landmark ...

January 16, 2024, Washington, D.C. — On Friday, January 12, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear the case of the City of Grants Pass, ...

How Supreme Court's Grants Pass Homeless Case May Limit ...

In Grants Pass v. Johnson, a town in Oregon asks the court to reconsider what constitutes “cruel and unusual punishments.”

Justice Department Reaches Landmark Settlement Agreement with ...

In a Dec. 29, 2015, order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon approved a settlement agreement between the Justice Department ...

List of landmark court decisions in the United States - Wikipedia

... decisions, particularly if the Supreme Court chooses not to review the case. Although many cases from state supreme courts are significant in developing the ...

The Past and Future of the Major Questions Doctrine

In West Virginia v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that administrative agencies must point to clear congressional authorization when they issue economically or ...

Gonzales v. Oregon: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) considers how the United States Supreme Court approaches the question of federal agency claims of power to regulate individual ...

Muller v. Oregon - Ballotpedia

The case concerned the constitutionality of an Oregon state law that limited women to ten hours of work in factories and laundries per day. The Supreme Court ...

Cases - Free exercise of religion - Oyez

A case in which the Court found that an ordinance banning religious animal sacrifice was unconstitutional under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

Vannatta v. Keisling :: 1997 :: Oregon Supreme Court Decisions

Decided February 6, 1997. *773 John DiLorenzo, Jr., of Hagen, Dye, Hirschy & DiLorenzo, P.C., Portland, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs ...

Justice Department Announces Conclusion of Landmark Agreement ...

Sheltered workshops are segregated facilities that exclusively or primarily serve individuals with disabilities, in which people with ...

Supreme Court just made it harder for federal agencies to regulate ...

Indeed, the vote was unanimous in declaring that when a statute is ambiguous, courts should defer to reasonable agency interpretations of what ...

Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision Upending Deference to ...

The decision overrules the longstanding doctrine known as Chevron deference, under which courts would defer to a federal agency's reasonable ...