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MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 6, 2023) — Monmouth College students in a pair of classes taught during the spring semester by political science professor Andre Audette took an active role in examining current events.Audette's "Constitutional Law" students put themselves in the shoes of US Supreme Court justices, writing a legal opinion ahead of the Court's official May 11 ruling on

Federal antidiscrimination law should be assessed before passions are raised and legal principles fall by the wayside.

SCOTUS ruled National Pork Producers Council v Ross CA did not violate Dormant Commerce Clause. Prop 12 prohibits sale of pork raised in inhuman conditions in CA, but CA does not produce much pork. Law will impact farms in other states. Ruling could extend other industries.

It is rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to construe a statutory phrase on multiple occasions.  And yet now, for purposes of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act), it has rendered...

10 a.m. on a Thursday is a bit early to have pork chops on the brain. But that’s the frame of mind in which Justice Neil Gorsuch found himself on the morning of May 11, when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the much-anticipated Commerce Clause case National Pork Producers Council v. Ross. The question: whether the Constitution permitted California to pass a law regulating pork sales in its territory when most of the law’s effects would fall on businesses elsewhere.

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its opinion in the landmark Clean Water Act (“CWA”) case of Sackett v. EPA, No. 21-454 (May 25, 2023). This decision delivers a significant change in...

In a 9-0 ruling published on May 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the U.S. EPA’s and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE's) use of the expansive “significant nexus” test to...

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So the Sacketts of Idaho are 2-0 in their visits to our nation's highest court and the jurisdictional reach of the Federal Clean Water Act is shorter than it has been for decades.

Sackett v. EPA provides definition of Waters of the United States WOTUS and EPA regulatory authority of the clean water act CWA of water and wetlands, though some Supreme Court justices think Congress can balance Water regulation between federal and state power and the commerce clause