The South Florida Water Management District took funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, not to fix hurricane damage to levees and canals but to make "permanent flood control repairs". United States ex rel. Lesinski v. South Florida Water Mgmt. Dist., No. 12-16082 (11th Cir. Jan. 2, 2014).
Or so an ex-employee of the District alleged in a
The federal man came from grim shellshock on the swampy mainland far north, just this side of the line. It didnt matter. He must feel anguish. The yowling menace he saw meant that nothing but quietus would suit his alien vision of needful harsh loss. Or maybe just a license.
The old guy watched the
When a firm borrows money by selling an issue of bonds or notes to the public, it does so under an "indenture" that sets out the loan terms and creates a trust in favor of the buyers. The indenture also names a trustee to run the trust for the benefit of people who acquire the
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 provides that a private person who claims a violation of the act may sue "in an appropriate court of [a] State" so long as "the laws or rules of court of [the] State" permit the suit. 47 U.S.C. §§ 227(b)(3) & (c)(5). May the person also bring her
Suppose you took out loans to help pay the costs of running your business. You later suffer some setbacks. Bad ones. The market price of the loans, and their value on your lenders' books, take a tumble. In a fair world, those who made the loans would gladly let you pay off the debt at a discount, right?
We . . . refuse to abdicate our constitutional duty when Congress has acted beyond its enumerated Commerce Clause power in mandating that Americans, from cradle to grave, purchase an insurance product from a private company.
Florida v. United States Dept. of Health & Human Services, No. 11-11021 (11th Cir. Aug. 12, 2011) (Dubina, C.J.) (striking