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As the U.S. Supreme Court dealt yet another blow to the federal government’s regulatory authority, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday stressed that “the ball is in Congress’ court” to enact legislation to “forestall the coming chaos” wrought by the right-wing supermajority’s decision.
The justices ruled 6-3 in Corner Post Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that the Administrative Procedures Act’s (APA) statute of limitations period does not begin until a plaintiff is adversely affected by a regulation. The ruling reverses a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Corner Post—a North Dakota truck stop that challenged a U.S. Federal Reserve rule capping debit card swipe fees—because the six-year statute of limitations on such challenges had passed.
Monday’s ruling makes it much easier to sue government agencies. As Sydney Bryant and Devon Ombres at the […]
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