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A Second Federal Judge Just Blocked the Mail-Ballot Rule
Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, enjoined the Postal Service's ballot-mail rule in its entirety, finding it beyond the agency's statutory powers, with a Supreme Court application still pending.
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The $500 Obamacare Refund Is Smaller and Stranger Than It Sounds
The administration says nearly a million unsubsidized marketplace enrollees in 30 states will get $500 checks in October, drawn from a surplus of HealthCare.gov user fees whose spending authority is unresolved.
water rights
A Federal Court Said Clean Water Is Not a Constitutional Right
The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, dismissed the Jackson water lawsuit 10-5 and split openly with the Sixth Circuit's Flint rulings over what the Fourteenth Amendment protects.
immigration law
A Pardon Erased the Supreme Court's Immigration Bond Case
A New York pardon mooted Genalo v. G.M. before the Court could hear it, leaving the Second Circuit's bond-hearing rule standing and the constitutional question unanswered.
patient safety
A Drug Error Gave Two Nashville Hospitals a September 18 Deadline
CMS may terminate the Medicare agreement for Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown and West unless correction plans satisfy federal reviewers after a compounding error left four patients with catastrophic injuries.
bank supervision
Bank Regulators Just Expanded the 18-Month Exam Cycle
An interim final rule from the FDIC, Federal Reserve, and OCC raises the extended exam-cycle threshold from $3 billion to $6 billion in assets, effective immediately, with about 188 more banks qualifying.
ai ipo
Anthropic Takes a Profit Story Into Its IPO
A Financial Times report says Anthropic expects a second straight quarter of adjusted operating profit as it prepares a Nasdaq listing that could value it at $2 trillion.
food safety
After a 2,000-Product Recall, the FDA Asks a Court to Close the Warehouse
Federal prosecutors want a permanent injunction against a Minneapolis distributor whose warehouse inspectors found full of rodents, birds, and gnawed product, eight years after its first warning letter.
gun licensing
A Gun License Denied in 2023 Is Now a Massachusetts Supreme Court Case
The SJC will hear argument October 7 in Pratt v. Westbrook, testing whether the state's "suitable person" discretion survives the Supreme Court's Bruen test.
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