Federal Executive Power
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A federal statute authorizes a board made up of executives from the five largest trucking companies to set binding mi...
A federal statute authorizes a board made up of executives from the five largest trucking companies to set binding minimum rates for all smaller trucking companies. A federal agency must publish the board's rates but may...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. I, Carter v. Carter Coal Co., A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
A federal court orders production of specific Oval Office recordings needed for a criminal trial of private defendant...
A federal court orders production of specific Oval Office recordings needed for a criminal trial of private defendants. The President invokes executive privilege, arguing that all presidential communications are absolute...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, United States v. Nixon
A federal grand jury investigating bribery by private contractors subpoenaed recordings of Oval Office meetings betwe...
A federal grand jury investigating bribery by private contractors subpoenaed recordings of Oval Office meetings between the President and senior advisers. The subpoena identifies specific dates and topics and seeks evide...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, United States v. Nixon, Nixon v. Fitzgerald, Clinton v. Jones, Trump v. Vance
A former federal contractor sues the President for civil damages based on a statement the President made during an of...
A former federal contractor sues the President for civil damages based on a statement the President made during an official press conference explaining termination of a federal contract. Another plaintiff sues the Presid...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, Nixon v. Fitzgerald, Clinton v. Jones, Trump v. Vance
Congress creates a new federal enforcement agency led by a Director who may issue binding rules, sue regulated partie...
Congress creates a new federal enforcement agency led by a Director who may issue binding rules, sue regulated parties, and is supervised by no other executive officer except the President. The statute provides that the...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, sec. 2, Buckley v. Valeo, Edmond v. United States
Congress creates an agency headed by one Director who enforces federal consumer laws, seeks civil penalties, and issu...
Congress creates an agency headed by one Director who enforces federal consumer laws, seeks civil penalties, and issues binding rules. The statute permits removal of the Director only for cause and also says Congress may...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, Myers v. United States, Humphrey's Executor v. United States, Bowsher v. Synar, Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
During a labor emergency affecting military suppliers, the President orders federal officials to seize and operate pr...
...a labor emergency affecting military suppliers, the President orders federal officials to seize and operate private factories. Congress had rejected a statute authorizing such seizures and instead provided mediation pro...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
The President issued a pardon to a former cabinet official for "all federal offenses committed in connection with the...
The President issued a pardon to a former cabinet official for "all federal offenses committed in connection with the Harbor Contract Program from January 1 through June 30." The official had not yet been indicted when t...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, sec. 2, Ex parte Garland, Murphy v. Ford, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, Little v. Barreme
The President issues a pardon to an aide for all completed federal campaign-finance offenses committed during the pri...
The President issues a pardon to an aide for all completed federal campaign-finance offenses committed during the prior year. State prosecutors later charge the aide under state bribery law based on the same facts, and C...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, sec. 2, Ex parte Garland
Congress creates a Budget Enforcement Director who must cancel specific federal spending items when statutory deficit...
...ngress creates a Budget Enforcement Director who must cancel specific federal spending items when statutory deficit targets are missed. The statute provides that Congress may remove the Director by joint resolution at an...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. I, U.S. Const. art. II, Bowsher v. Synar, Buckley v. Valeo
During a cyberattack on the national rail system, the President issued three executive orders. Order 1 directed the S...
...e President believed the grant program was wasteful. Order 3 directed federal prosecutors to prioritize cyberattack prosecutions and temporarily defer low-level computer-trespass cases to preserve resources. A server-far...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, Zivotofsky v. Kerry, Train v. City of New York
Congress created the Consumer Algorithm Commission. The statute provides that the Commission will be led by a single...
...rector may issue binding rules and bring civil enforcement actions in federal court. The statute also creates administrative law judges who conduct adversarial hearings, issue initial decisions, and impose penalties unle...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, sec. 2, Buckley v. Valeo, Morrison v. Olson, Edmond v. United States, Lucia v. SEC, Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The President recognized the government of Country X after a disputed revolution. Without submitting anything to the...
....S. companies and Country X's state-owned bank. The agreement directs federal courts to dismiss pending claims against the bank and transfer those claims to an international tribunal. A federal statute enacted two years...
Citations: U.S. Const. art. II, sec. 2, United States v. Belmont, United States v. Pink, Dames & Moore v. Regan, Medellin v. Texas, Zivotofsky v. Kerry
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A consumer filed a federal products-liability action after a battery-powered scooter caught fire. Before suit, the co...
A consumer filed a federal products-liability action after a battery-powered scooter caught fire. Before suit, the consumer's lawyer sent the manufacturer a letter identifying the scooter model, the fire date, the warran...
Citations: Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f), Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(e)
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