Legal Constraints on Executive Power to Manage Agency Vacancies
Lauren Shapiro* I. INTRODUCTION Throughout the history of the Republic, high-level government offices have often gone unfilled for periods of […]
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Reconceptualizing Congressional Decision-making Around Well-being: A Health in All Policies Approach
Congressman TJ Cox, Dr. Kathy Murphy, & Rebecca Kahn I. INTRODUCTION Protecting and promoting the public’s health is one of
Fixing the United States Postal Service: How Congress Must Act to Bring Financial Stability to the Agency and Comprehensive Mail Service to the American People
Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. and Gordon E. Holzberg I. INTRODUCTION The United States Postal Service (“USPS”) — first established as
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A Chapter 11 Makeover: Timely Revisions to the Bankruptcy Code to Assist Small Businesses Through Crises
Rarely does Congress act proactively. But with the passage of the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA)[1] in 2019, the legislature may have—unknowingly at the time—saved many small businesses from the devastating economic effects of the coronavirus. For years, critics have bemoaned the Bankruptcy Code’s (Code) rigid framework for reorganizing financially distressed companies—specifically its one-size-fits-all treatment of the corner store and the Fortune 500 conglomerate.[2] Yet the SBRA attempted to streamline the lengthy and costly reorganization process, creating a fast-track path for small businesses in Chapter 11.
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Investigating the Attendant Circumstances of RICO from Its Early History and Drafting to Transnational Organized Crime and Extraterritorial Applications: A Perspective on U.S. Prosecutions, Ideology, and Globalization
By: Alina Veneziano* Abstract This Article traces the history of extraterritorial regulation, as applied to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt