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The Anti-Injunction Act And The Individual Mandate, Steve R. Johnson

Scholarly Publications

The Supreme Court will soon consider challenges to constitutionality of the so-called individual mandate portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). It is important for the nation that the Court render a decision on the merits. This could be derailed, however, were the Court to dispose of the case by holding that the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA) and the Declaratory Judgment Act (DJA) preclude pre-enforcement review. Disposition on those grounds would subject the federal government, states, businesses, and individuals to years of additional uncertainty, inconvenience, and expense.

Fortunately, that threat to resolution on the merits can …

Antitrust's "Jurisdictional" Reach Abroad, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

In its Arbaugh decision the Supreme Court insisted that a federal statute’s limitation on reach be regarded as “jurisdictional” only if the legislature was clear that this is what it had in mind. The Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act (FTAIA) presents a puzzle in this regard, because Congress seems to have been quite clear about what it had in mind; it simply failed to use the correct set of buzzwords in the statute itself, and well before Arbaugh assessed this requirement.

Even if the FTAIA is to be regarded as non-jurisdictional, the constitutional extraterritorial reach of the Sherman Act is …

The Prosecution's Duty Of Disclosure In Singapore: Muhammad Bin Kadar V Public Prosecutor [2011] 3 Slr 1205, Siyuan Chen

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The Court of Appeal (CA) judgment in Muhammad bin Kadar v Public Prosecutor created quite a stir in Singapore. The case pertained to a murder involving two suspects, and its resolution took almost six years, with many twists and turns as to the actual facts. The CA attributed the confusion in part to questionable practices adopted by the police and the prosecution at various points in the proceedings, and reserved strong words for them in its judgment. It also established new requirements for the prosecution regarding its duty to the court to disclose relevant material not favourable to the case …

2011 Legislative Summary, Assembly Committee On Public Safety

California Assembly

MEMBERS:
Tom Ammiano, Chair
Steve Knight, Vice Chair
Gilbert Cedillo, Member
Curt Hagman, Member
Jerry Hill, Member
Holly J. Mitchell, Member
Nancy Skinner, Member

COMMITTEE STAFF:
Gregory Pagan, Chief Counsel
Gabriel Caswell, Counsel
Milena N. Blake, Counsel
Sandy Uribe, Counsel
Stella Y. Choe, Counsel

Sue Highland, Committee Secretary
Elizabeth V. Potter, Committee Secretary

F11rs Sgb No. 1 (Clicker Rules), Loga

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Senate Rules of Order

F11rs Sgb No. 1 (Election Code), Loga, Beadle, Frias, Sullivan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Student Government Election Code

F11rs Sgb No. 6 (Caucus Leadership), Beadle

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Student Government Bylaws

F11rs Sgb No. 5 (Rules Of Court), Frias

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Rules of Court

F11rs Sgb No. 3 (Cc Bylaws), Caffarel, Beadle, Loga, Sullivan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Bylaws

F11rs Sgb No. 4 (Cc Budget), Caffarel, Beadle, Loga, Sullivan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Budget

F11rs Sgb No. 9 (Budget), Beadle

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

to budget the funds of the Student Government of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College for the fiscal year 2011-2012; to appropriate funds for activities, projects, and programs of the Student Government; and to appropriate grants to certain student groups and organizations according to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Student Government.

F11rs Sgb No. 8 (Adjournment Rules), Glorioso

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Senate Rules of Order

F11rs Sgb No. 7 (Psif Bylaws), Simon

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the programing, Support, and Initiatives Fund Bylaws

F11rs Sgb No. 13 (Regalia), Loga

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To Amend The student Government Bylaws

F11rs Sgb No. 11 (Amend Budget), Beadle

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the 2011-2012 Student Government Budget

F11rs Sgb No. 10 (Rules Of Court), Swinburn

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Rules of Court

F11rs Sgfb No. 1 (Clickers), Caffarel

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate two thousand two hundred seventh eight dollars and forty five cents ($2,278.45) from the Student Government Surplus Account to fund the acquisition of ‘clickers’ for the Student Senate

F11rs Sgb No. 14 (Part-Time Student Exclusion), Beadle, Ball, Buffington, Carrizales, Alex Grashoff, Hebert, Swinburn, Trout, Wyatt

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Student Government Bylaws

F11rs Sgfb No. 3 (Going Global), Westbrook

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate a maximum of seventeen hundred dollars ($1,700) from the Senate Contingency Account to fund the Going Global Program at LSU

F11rs Sgfb No. 2 (Clickers For Library), Sullivan, Glorioso

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate fourteen thousand eighty-four dollars and thirty-five cents ($14,084.35) from the Student Government Initiatives Account to fund the purchase of Turning Technologies clickers for the LSU Middleton Library

F11rs Sgfb No. 6 (Branch Head Comp), Caffarel

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate four thousand two hundred seventy two dollars ($4,272.00) from the Student Government Surplus Account to fund computers for Branch Head offices

F11rs Sgfb No. 8 (Conference Chao Liu), Swinburn

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To appropriate the amount of $422.00 of the Student Senate Contingency fund to help with costs associated with Chao-xuan Liu attending the 2011 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and International Research Conference November 10-13, 2011 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

F11rs Sgfb No. 4 (Architecture), Zeringue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate a maximum of $2,672.65 (two thousand six hundred seventy two dollars and sixty five cents) of the Student Government Initiatives Account to provide funding for a Design Build Tool Lending Library in the Office of Community Design and Development.

F11rs Sgfb No. 9 (Philosophy), Neal

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To appropriate the amount of $380.00 (three hundred and eighty dollars)of the Student Senate Contingency fund to help with costs associated with Philosophy colloquium, in order to have mark lance speak to students on campus in mid-November

F11rs Sgr No. 3 (Merger), Beadle

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request the administration of Louisiana State University Agricultural and Mechanical College to support the reformation of the PSIF and ORF funding committees in order to simplify and streamline the student funding process and approve the formation of the SOSF(Student Organization Support Fund)

F11rs Sgr No. 2 (Foreign Lang), Caffarel

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and the Department of French Studies to cease utilizing online tools for homework and to provide cheaper options for class materials

F11rs Sgfb No. 10 (Paisa), Hebert

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate the amount of $2,779.68 to the Public Administration Institute Student Association (PAISA), from the Senate Contingency to fund the annual PAISA Fall Ball on December 11, 2011

F11rs Sgr No. 1 (Class Retake), Sullivan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the LSU Administration to amend the class retake policy

F11rs Sgr No. 5 (Meal Transfer), Westbrook

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request LSU dining and University Auxiliary Services to reevaluate the newly implemented meal transfer policy to allow students to obtain more than one meal transfer per each dining period

F11rs Sgr No. 6 (Tiger Cash Kiosk), Martin, Loga

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and request the Tiger Cash Office, to make a Tiger Cash Kiosk available to students in “The Five” dining hall