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The D.C. Circuit ruled that the Campbell coal order stretched a narrow wartime emergency power too far, but its ruling reached only one expired order, and the Energy Department has kept renewing 90-day orders for other plants while ratepayers pay the bill.

Publicly owned canning plants, mostly behind schoolhouses, let families put up their own food at national scale, and the wider record of public enterprise is strong where the problem had the right shape and poor where it did not.

Court filings show AI companies buying millions of print books, slicing off the bindings, scanning the pages and discarding the paper, and the reason the books are destroyed rather than kept is a 300-year-old rule about who owns a copy.

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Ordinary criminal law is territorial. A state punishes what happens inside its borders, and sometimes what its own nationals do abroad.

Before 2014, the individual health insurance market did not need to verify anyone's income, because it was not giving anything away.

After courts twice refused to send him to Rwanda, a London doctor faces the first British charges ever brought over the 1994 genocide, under a law Parliament had to backdate to reach him.

More than a thousand trades worth up to $270 million appeared in the President's July filing, and the disclosure system built after Watergate reports only dates and dollar ranges, which is exactly why it cannot answer the question everyone is asking.

The Eighth Circuit ordered Missouri to use the map its own supreme court says never became law, and did it without ever disputing the state court’s reading of the state constitution.

The government cancelled coverage for 760,000 healthcare.gov enrollees it says were fraudulently signed up, but the test it used was whether they answered a letter.