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Volume XVIII, Issue 33

Aug. 21, 2025

 

Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America v. Lierman, Case No. 24-1727 (4th Cir. 2025).

Maryland's digital advertising tax pass-through provision violates the First Amendment by restricting speech about the tax without satisfying intermediate scrutiny.

 

DM Arbor Court, Limited v. The City of Houston, Case No. 23-20385 (5th Cir. 2025).

A city’s regulatory action of denying a repair permit after storm damages deprives property owners of all economically viable use of the property, constituting a categorical taking under Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council.

 

Penthol, L.L.C. v. Vertex Energy Operating, L.L.C., Case No. 24-20329 (5th Cir. 2025).

Despite a threatening communication, a contract is not anticipatorily repudiated if the communication is conditional (e.g., dependent on the recipient’s failure to cure), is prospective, and is not an "absolute" or "unconditional" refusal to perform.

 

Denmon v. Kansas Counselors, Inc., Case No. 23-3612 (8th Cir. 2025).

A debtor who receives a single unwanted debt collection does not suffer a concrete injury under the TransUnion standard and lacks Article III standing.

 

Jencks v. AgVantage FS (In re Jencks), Case No. 24-6010 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. 2025).

A debtors' homestead exemption claim enjoys presumptive validity, and an objecting creditor must produce significantly more evidence a property is not homestead than the debtors’ purchase of another parcel of real property.

 

Grijalva v. ADP Screening and Selection Services Incorporated, Case No. 24-2984 (9th Cir. 2025).

A credit report agency violates the FCRA by reporting an outdated license revocation but will not be liable if its interpretation is not objectively unreasonable.

 

Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Case No. 23-9503 (10th Cir. 2025).

The EPA did not err in approving Colorado's revised permit requirement but acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to assess the revised definition of "commencement of operation."

 

TL90108 LLC v. Ford, Case No. 21-10456 (11th Cir. 2025).

Equitable tolling does not apply to the Bankruptcy Rule of Procedure 4007(c) deadline to file a § 523(c) complaint despite the Supreme Court’s later decisions in Kontrick v. Ryan, 540 U.S. 443 (2004), and Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010).

 

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