The Covid-19 pandemic has spawned numerous wrongful death and personal injury suits. These suits belong—if anywhere—in federal courts. But vast majority of these suits, which allege negligence and malpractice on the part of hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and other healthcare professionals, especially during the early months of the pandemic, have been filed in state courts. […]

The certiorari petition in AMN Services v. Clarke, No. 21-296, presents a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) question about the relationship between per-diem payments for business-related travel and the calculation of overtime pay.  AMN Services, a healthcare temporary staffing company, reduces the amount of per-diem payments for traveling nurses who decline to work all of their

In light of recent Supreme Court precedent, there is a substantial question about whether administrative enforcement proceedings prosecuted by independent regulatory agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) before their own  removal-for-cause-only administrative law judges (ALJs) violate the separation of powers, and thus are unconstitutional. Federal courts of

The City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, has adopted a state-approved Shoreline Management Program (“SMP”), which requires property owners to set aside vegetation buffers and conservation easements to protect Puget Sound shoreline from the supposed ecological impacts of residential construction, landscaping, and recreational activities. Following an unsuccessful administrative appeal to the state Growth Management Hearings Board,