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Jul 8, 2021 Senator Bradley Asks Why 11th Amendment is Being proposed Senator Darrell Bradley has come out in opposition to the proposed Eleventh Amendment to the Belize Constitution. Late this evening, he issued a statement saying the Amendment seeks to introduce an entirely new and discriminatory disqualification for membership to the House of Representatives. Senator Bradley points out that currently, section eight disqualifies any person who “is under a sentence of death imposed on him by a court in any part of the Commonwealth or who is serving a sentence of imprisonment…”...

“No concrete harm, no standing.” For the majority in  TransUnion v. Ramirez (No. 20-297), it was that simple. The case involved a key class action issue: whether members of a class who may have been subjected to the same violation of law but who suffered no concrete injury could properly take part in a class-action lawsuit. The Ninth Circuit held that they could, but, in a 5-4 decision penned by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court disagreed. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, TransUnion developed a new and more expensive type of credit report that flagged whether an individual’s name ...

A surprising Supreme Court When is a case about a pipeline about more than the pipeline? When it produces a 5-4 Supreme Court decision with a surprising mix of conservative and liberal Justices on both sides. Their opinions reflect disagreements from the founding era over the role and power of the federal government. Pipeline developer PennEast has been seeking to build a 116-mile pipeline between Pennsylvania and New Jersey since 2014. The Natural Gas Act of 1938 delegates the federal government’s eminent domain power to private parties once the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FER...

Jun 30, 2021 Eleventh Amendment to Be Tabled There is a new piece of legislation being tabled in the House of Representatives in the days ahead.  The Belize Constitution Eleventh Amendment Act seeks to disqualify anyone who is a member of the National Assembly who has been convicted of an offense “in relation to corruption or abuse of public office or convicted of an offense relating to elections or who has served a sentence of imprisonment for more than twelve months, imposed by a court in or outside of Belize.”  Earlier this week, there was chatter about the proposed piece of...

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court held in PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey that natural gas pipeline companies with a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) may condemn State lands. In the June 29, 2021 decision, the Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that held the pipeline developer PennEast Pipeline Company could not seize land owned by the State of New Jersey.  The Court held, in a 5-4 split ruling, that Section 7(h) of the Natural Gas Act...