Tag: Supreme Court
Major U.S. Supreme Court decisions coming down the track MAJOR UPDATE
June 28, 2024 Update: The Supreme Court in an unprecedented victory for multifamily and other businesses, has today reversed its 40-year-old decision in Chevron...
INFOGRAPHIC: Can governments use building permits to extort property owners?
The Supreme Court will hear a landmark property-rights case (Sheetz v. County of El Dorado) with major economic implications. When a decision will be...
Supreme Court will hear case on unsheltered homeless
40% of homeless population are unsheltered 40% of homeless are black 30% of homeless are chronically homeless 60% of homeless are male 26% of homeless are seriously mentally...
Supreme Court preview for January 2024: Chevron Deference breathes its last?
In one of the biggest cases of the current term, the Supreme Court’s calendar for January 2024 features arguments about the limit of federal...
Constitution crosses into digital world
The Supreme Court has been busy this year. Potentially adding to other notable recent decisions, the Supreme Court will hear cases involving property rights,...
Infographic: Discrimination domino effect
In June the Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions in Students for Fair Admissions versus Harvard and University of North Carolina. The decision affects...
Supreme Court urged to step in on NYC’s rent-control laws
The Supreme Court is considering a petition to hear a case that challenges New York City’s rent stabilization law as pressure builds from stakeholders...
Groups urge Supreme Court to overrule pro-bureaucracy rule that aids administrative state
Limited-government advocates are urging the Supreme Court to overrule “Chevron deference,” a bureaucracy-empowering legal doctrine they say has distorted the U.S. system of government...
Industry associations respond to Supreme Court WOTUS ruling
In Sackett v. EPA, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the Clean Water Act only applies to wetlands that have a continuous surface connection...
SCOTUS grants major victory for property rights
The U.S. Supreme Court announced that two property owners in Montana will have their day in court to prove that the U.S. Forest Service...
U.S. Supreme Court decides in favor of property owners
Property owners won a significant victory in the recent case of Pakdel v. San Francisco, in which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a restrictive...
Return of Waters
At the urging of NAHB and other business groups, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the Clean Water Act...
Supreme Court blocks mandate
National Federation of Independent Businesses v. OSHA, rejected a Biden Administration effort to mandate vaccination or testing for COVID in workplaces with more than...
Property rights versus labor unions in the Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court’s recent Obamacare case illustrates, the justices no longer enforce most of the Constitution’s limits on the federal government. But a...
Supreme Court takes up key housing discrimination case
There may be many reasons for a racial disparity in home loans—for example, financial qualifications—that have nothing to do with discrimination. Yet businesses routinely...
