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Is The Statutory 60-Day Deadline For Filing A Petition For Review Of A Final Mspb Order Jurisdictional?, Anne Marie Lofaso Mar 2024

Is The Statutory 60-Day Deadline For Filing A Petition For Review Of A Final Mspb Order Jurisdictional?, Anne Marie Lofaso

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Case at a Glance: The Department of Defense (DOD) furloughed employee Stuart R. Harrow in 2013. Harrow timely challenged DOD’s decision before an administrative judge, who affirmed it. Harrow timely appealed the judge’s decision to the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB or “Board”), which could not act on the appeal for over five years because it lacked a quorum. On May 11, 2022, the MSPB issued a final order, affirming the judge’s decision. However, Harrow did not learn of the decision until August 30. Harrow promptly filed a petition to review the Board’s order with the Federal Circuit, which denied …


Re-Framing Biotechnology Regulation, Alison Peck Jan 2017

Re-Framing Biotechnology Regulation, Alison Peck

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Biotechnology is about to spill the banks of federal regulation. New genetic engineering techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 promise revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and public health-but those techniques would not be regulated under the terms of the Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology. This revolutionary moment in biotechnology offers an opportunity to correct the flaws in the framework, which was hastily patched together at the advent of the technology. The framework has never captured all relevant technologies, has never satisfied the public that risk is being effectively managed, and has never been accessible to small companies and publicly-funded labs that increasingly …


Keeping The Lights On During Superstorm Sandy: Climate Change And Adaptation And The Resiliency Benefits Of Distributed Generation, James M. Van Nostrand Jan 2015

Keeping The Lights On During Superstorm Sandy: Climate Change And Adaptation And The Resiliency Benefits Of Distributed Generation, James M. Van Nostrand

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Hurricane Sandy (ultimately downgraded to "Superstorm" Sandy by the time it hit the coasts of New York and New Jersey in late October 2012) was the most lethal and destructive hurricane in 2012, resulting in 285 deaths, $68 billion in damages, and 8.5 million utility customers in the eastern United States losing power. Superstorm Sandy provided a wake-up call for electric utilities on the need to adopt a different set of long-term planning tools to improve the resilience of the electric system against anticipated extreme weather events. The experience of Superstorm Sandy provides a case study of the system resiliency …


State Regulation Of Charitable Solicitation, Elaine Waterhouse Wilson Jul 1998

State Regulation Of Charitable Solicitation, Elaine Waterhouse Wilson

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Does An Administrator's General Interest In Fulfulling Her Duties Meet The Constitution's Requirements For Seeking Judicial Review Of A Decision She Doesn't Like?, Patrick C. Mcginley Dec 1994

Does An Administrator's General Interest In Fulfulling Her Duties Meet The Constitution's Requirements For Seeking Judicial Review Of A Decision She Doesn't Like?, Patrick C. Mcginley

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To Defer Or Not To Defer: When Must A Court Honor An Administrative Agency's Interpretation Of Its Own Regulations?, Patrick C. Mcginley Oct 1994

To Defer Or Not To Defer: When Must A Court Honor An Administrative Agency's Interpretation Of Its Own Regulations?, Patrick C. Mcginley

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Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation V. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Consumers Power Company V. Nelson Aeschliman, Et Al., Patrick C. Mcginley Jan 1978

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation V. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Consumers Power Company V. Nelson Aeschliman, Et Al., Patrick C. Mcginley

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