Interpreting Legal Texts
Vol. 138 No. 5
On March 3, 2025, the Harvard Law Review hosted Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Kevin Newsom, Alana Frederick, and Thomas Nielsen (HLR '24) for...
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Thomas E. Nielsen
What Loper Bright Might Portend for Auer Deference
Last week, the Supreme Court overruled the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, declaring that courts can no longer defer to...
Community Financial Services and the Intramural Debate over Novelty and Tradition
On May 16th, the Supreme Court handed down CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America, rejecting the Fifth Circuit’s conclusion that the CFPB’s...
Government by the People: Iowa’s Book-Ban Law and Direct Democracy
As the first day of classes neared, Bridgette Exman, assistant superintendent of the Mason City School District in north-central Iowa, found herself plugging a...
Recent Case: Laufer v. Naranda Hotels, LLC
Did tester standing survive the Supreme Court's curtailment of standing in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez (2021)? The Fourth Circuit recently held that it did, joining two other appellate courts and worsening an existent circuit split.