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Supreme Court· 6/30/2023

Biden v. Nebraska

Citations

  • 600 U.S. 477

Oral argument

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  • explaining that “the plaintiff must have suffered an injury in fact—a concrete and imminent harm to a legally protected interest, like property or money”
  • determining that MOHELA is an arm of the state for the purposes of Article III standing, such that the state of Missouri had standing to sue for an injury suffered by MOHELA
  • finding in the Article III standing context that states have standing to sue to protect their official state instrumentalities
  • highlighting many of the same aspects of MOHELA’s structure in its enabling act
  • applying the major questions doctrine to conclude that “ ‘Congress would likely have intended for itself ’ ” the task of making “ ‘[t]he basic and consequen- tial tradeoffs’ inherent in a mass debt cancellation program” (quoting West Virginia v. EPA, 597 U. S. 697, 730 (2022))
  • Court granted certiorari before judgment and expedited oral argument after receiving emergency application involving federal student loan forgiveness program

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Judges: John G. Roberts

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