In 2024, NYC's City Council passed the "FARE Act", which prohibits brokers from imposing a fee on tenants for which the broker has published a listing or agreed to work for a landlord. Various folks challenged the law. District court denied an injunction & dismissed. Affirmed.
@strowhiro@RMFifthCircuit Best I've seen was in an en banc petition, which requires you to include the panel opinion as an exhibit. Counsel included a version of the opinion with all his comments about why it was wrong, how the reasoning was dumb, etc.
Favorite XCOM trivia bit: Sean Bean voiced a scientist in the intro cinematic for War of the Chosen. And yes, he dies.
(He was in the booth recording VO for Civ 6, we asked him for the favor and he did it. Stand up guy.)
@OrinKerr (2/2) our announcement of the rule. … In both civil and criminal cases, we can scarcely permit the substantive law [to] shift and spring according to … claims of actual reliance on an old rule and of harm from a retroactive application of the new rule”
@OrinKerr (1/2) Harper v. Virginia Dept. of Taxation, 509 U.S. 86, 97 (1993):
“When this Court applies a rule of federal law to the parties before it, that rule … must be given full retroactive effect in all cases … as to all events, regardless of whether such events predate or postdate