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Four federal banking agencies have proposed replacing prescriptive third-party oversight guidance with a non-enforceable framework, including rescinding the deposit-ledger expectations written after the Synapse failure.

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A federal appeals court ruled that border officers need no suspicion whatsoever to scroll through a traveler's cellphone, because a doctrine built to keep contraband out of the country treats a smartphone as just another piece of property.

The Ratepayer Protection Act adds a standard to a 1978 law that requires state regulators to hold a hearing and rule on it, not to adopt it, because Congress cannot set the retail rates it was accused of setting.

Federal officials have conceded in writing that a 250-foot triumphal arch will damage historic sites around Arlington and the Lincoln Memorial, and the preservation statute they are following does not forbid them from building it anyway.

A federal judge found Google an illegal monopolist in advertising technology, then declined to make it sell the exchange at the center of the case, ordering six years of supervised rule-following instead.

A staff-level FCC ruling let Saudi, Emirati and Qatari state funds take roughly half the equity above Paramount's CBS stations, and almost every account of it got the law wrong.

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Almost every American abortion statute written between the Civil War and 1973 contained an exception, and almost none of them explained it.

Long before there was environmental law there was nuisance, and nuisance is still the conceptual ancestor of everything that follows.