Almost 40 years ago the Supreme Court held in Chevron U.S.A v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837, 844 (1984), that “a court may not substitute its own construction of a statutory provision for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrator of an agency.” This Chevron doctrine “directs courts to accept an agency’s reasonable resolution of an ambiguity in […]

Personal injury “failure-to-warn” suits long have been a well-accepted component of state tort law. Even failure-to-warn claims for intangible injuries such as emotional distress and reputational harm are allowed under certain  circumstances.  But what about the new frontier of Internet-based “informational injuries” allegedly sustained as a result of visiting  business websites that allegedly fail to

Petitioner Tyler, a 94 year-old woman, owed $15,000 in local property taxes and related penalties in connection with an abandoned condominium. In accordance with state tax-lien statutes, Hennepin County, Minnesota seized the property, sold it for $40,000, and retained the $25,000 surplus. The Eighth Circuit rejected Tyler’s  contention that the County’s refusal to return the